Alan Jacobs


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We always have to improve just a little, just as everything has to be “growth-based”, a little bigger next year than last year. It’s never good enough to maintain ground, to defend a center, to sustain a tradition, to keep a body healthy happy and well. Nor is it ever good enough to be different next year. Not a bit bigger, not a bit better, but different. New. Strange. We are neither to be new nor are we to maintain. We are to incrementally approach a preset vision of a slightly better but never perfect world. We are never to change or become different, only to be disrupted. Never to commune or collaborate, always to be architected and built.
<a href=“[blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blo...](http://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2015/10/02/inchworm/)”>Tim Burke on assessment