A quotation from Bertrand Russell

It is better to do nothing than to do harm. Half the useful work in the world consists of combating the harmful work.

Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Conquest of Happiness, Part 2, ch. 16 “Effort and Resignation” (1930)

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Russell, Bertrand - Conquest of Happiness, Part 2, ch. 16 "Effort and Resignation" (1930) | WIST Quotations

It is better to do nothing than to do harm. Half the useful work in the world consists of combating the harmful work.

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"(…) trans is not a matter of changing in time, from this to that, but an undoing of “this” and “that,” an ongoing reconfiguring of spacetimemattering in an iterative reworking of past, present, future integral to the play of the indeterminacy of being-time."

Barad, Karen: Transmaterialities. Trans*/Matter/realities and Queer Political imaginings. GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, 21:2–3. Duke University Press, 2015.
DOI 10.1215/10642684-2843239

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Decay holds no truth.
It is only time’s polite reminder
that nothing was ever solid.

It cannot be conquered—
only danced with.

So laugh at the fractures,
toy with what crumbles,
until even decay itself forgets
whether it is undoing you,
or you are undoing it.

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I’m still trying to undo so many of the judgments I used to make regarding student writing and what it is/was “supposed” to look like.
#unlearning #ungrading #undoing

I'm trying a new thing where I don't get miffed that most Ss didn't do a thing when I wanted them to do a thing and just accept that they're tired (etc.) and need extra time.

Just like that. I changed my attitude.
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