Curiosity is good.

Lack of curiosity is curious from triangle.com

"Over dinner a few weeks ago, the novelist Lawrence Naumoff told a troubling story. He asked students in his introduction to creative writing course at UNC-Chapel Hill if they had read Jack Kerouac. Nobody raised a hand. Then he asked if anyone had ever heard of Jack Kerouac. More blank expressions.
Naumoff began describing the legend of the literary wild man. One student offered that he had a teacher who was just as crazy. Naumoff asked the professor's name. The student said he didn't know. Naumoff then asked this oblivious scholar, "Do you know my name?"
After a long pause, the young man replied, "No."
"I guess I've always known that many students are just taking my course to get a requirement out of the way," Naumoff said. "But it was disheartening to see that some couldn't even go to the trouble of finding out the name of the person teaching the course."
The floodgates were opened and the other UNC professors at the dinner began sharing their own dispiriting stories about the troubling state of curiosity on campus. Their experiences echoed the complaints voiced by many of my book reviewers who teach at some of the nation's best schools.
All of them have noted that such ignorance isn't new -- students have always possessed far less knowledge than they should, or think they have. But in the past, ignorance tended to be a source of shame and motivation. Students were far more likely to be troubled by not-knowing, far more eager to fill such gaps by learning. As one of my reviewers, Stanley Trachtenberg, once said, "It's not that they don't know, it's that they don't care about what they don't know.""

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Some pray to marry the man they love, my prayer will somewhat vary; I humbly pray to Heaven above that I love the man I marry.
-- Rose Pastor Stokes

anonymuncule

ek shyam zindagi ke

dubo jane vali barsat,
garajte chamkte badal hazar,
halki barish ke phuar,
kahi urdte badal char,
saf kula nila asman,
uspe chamakti kirne beshumar,
dhimi hawa lati kushboo unjaan,
dhondne use badhte kadam char,
ujagar hota phuloo ka rang tamam,
khamoshi ko jagati panchiyo ke awaz,
dhime dhime pattiya gungunati koi raag,
dhalte suraj ki aakh micholi sab ke saath,
phir sitaro bhare aachal me sab samoti raat.

ye zindigi ki ek shyam aur sang hota tumara saath.

thought

why?

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A smile on the face is a sign that the heart is at home.
-- Unknown Author

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anonymuncule

kushi ka pal, aachnak aata hai aur bina kuch kahe chala jata hai.
gum ka ek lamha, rukh sa jaata hai aur her ehasas per apne nishan chod jata hai.