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Grit

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Patrick Leary, J. (2019). Grit. In Patrick Leary, J. Keywords: The New Language of Capitalism. Haymarket Books, pp. 100-104

(adjective) difficult knotty / (adjective) ; rough to the touch; as / (adjective) having small raised dots, scales, or points / (adjective) covered with raised, roughened, or unwholesome patches / (adjective) dealing with suggestive, indecent, or scandalous themes; salacious / (adjective) squalid

100

its idea of scabrous determination

—p.100 by John Patrick Leary
strange
4 years, 4 months ago

its idea of scabrous determination

—p.100 by John Patrick Leary
strange
4 years, 4 months ago
103

[...] Grit literature also reassures the desperate and frustrated that their situation is still within their control: a few tweaks or a new attitude are all you need to triumph in a job you love. One can imagine, however, how the payoff of such a philosophy could be pointless when it is not cruel. [...] In neither case is there anything different you could now do about it. In other words, grit offers an explanation for what exists rather than giving us the tools to imagine something different.

—p.103 by John Patrick Leary 4 years, 4 months ago

[...] Grit literature also reassures the desperate and frustrated that their situation is still within their control: a few tweaks or a new attitude are all you need to triumph in a job you love. One can imagine, however, how the payoff of such a philosophy could be pointless when it is not cruel. [...] In neither case is there anything different you could now do about it. In other words, grit offers an explanation for what exists rather than giving us the tools to imagine something different.

—p.103 by John Patrick Leary 4 years, 4 months ago
103

[...] defying the odds is, by definition, improbable. And while it may work as advice in a business world predicated on competition, to fashion a democratic educational policy around the possibility of defying odds makes little sense. If everyone, or even many people, could defy the odds, then casinos would be bankrupt.

on charter schools based on the idea of grit

—p.103 by John Patrick Leary 4 years, 4 months ago

[...] defying the odds is, by definition, improbable. And while it may work as advice in a business world predicated on competition, to fashion a democratic educational policy around the possibility of defying odds makes little sense. If everyone, or even many people, could defy the odds, then casinos would be bankrupt.

on charter schools based on the idea of grit

—p.103 by John Patrick Leary 4 years, 4 months ago