Curious: The Desire to Know and Why Your Future Depends On It

One of the primary skills that a child raised under concerted cultivation learns is how to come up with their own questions.

Only fiction has the power to cross the mental barricades, to make strangers intelligible to each other, because it moves people’s hearts as well as engaging their minds.

we can arrange our lives to stoke our curiosity or squash it.

Curiosity is the sweetest form of dissatisfaction.

‘I live, live intensely, and am fed by life, and my value, whatever it might be, is my own kind of expression of that. Art makes life, makes interest, makes importance.’

J.S. Mill

‘In nine months a group of children left alone with a computer in any language will reach the same standard as an office secretary in the West.’

foxhog.

‘Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish.’