A friend has called me a "nymph"-o-maniac. I have called myself an "Odonatamaniac." But yesterday, I read Mark Edmundson's "Education's Hungry Hearts" in the New York Times. Now I know what I am: a hungry heart.
Call it what you will -- Nerdiness, "nymph-o-mania," OCD, "hungry heart" -- I have it bad.
And I like it!
Like the best of Edmundson's students, I have "energy to learn . . ., love for learning and openness to experience." I have dragonfly/damselfly sensitive eyes and the will to wade into and lie down in much to snap the littlest of them all.
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