All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it--an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it;... a point of view.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In the theater the audience is generally riveted to a single angle of observation. The movie director, though, can rapidly shift f...rom objective to subjective--and to any number of subjective points of view--and in so doing seem to pull the audience directly inside the frame of his picture, giving the spectator the sense of experiencing an action from the viewpoint of a participant. Identification of the viewer with the film character, then, can be much more intimate than the analogous situation in the theater.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Where has it gone, the lifetime? Search me. What's left is drear.... Unchilded and unwifed, I'm Able to view that clear: So final. And so near.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The three main medieval points of view regarding universals are designated by historians as realism, conceptualism, and nominalism.... Essentially these same three doctrines reappear in twentieth-century surveys of the philosophy of mathematics under the new names logicism, intuitionism, and formalism.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Give me mine angle, we'll to th' river; there, My music playing far off, I will betray... Tawny-finned fishes; my bended hook shall pierce Their slimy jaws; and as I draw them up, I'll think them every one an Antony, And say, "Ah, ha! y' are caught."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In Rousseau's view (1762). . . most of the problems of education are problems of motivation, as teachers try to rush things. They ...talk of geography before the child knows the way around his own backyard. They teach history before the child understand anything about adult motivation. . . . It would be far better, to let questions arise naturally. . . . When a child is self-motivated, the teacher cannot keep him from learning.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »