This showed up one day on my Facebook newsfeed. It’s among the thousands of catchy image quotes that friends like to share. I found one attribution to cultural anthropologist Margaret Mead. Although I couldn’t verify the quote anywhere else, it does seem consistent with other things I’ve read about her. Teaching children how to think seems a [...]
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On Teaching Children How to Think or What to Think
Also posted in I Saw It on Facebook, Social matters
Tagged Fear, Morality, Religion, Society, Thinking, Truth, Virtue
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Thinking Within the Shadows
Sometimes I’ll push away from my desk, rise to my feet, and take step a or two only to pause as though I’d forgotten where I’m headed. The older I get the truer it is I’ve forgotten my immediate intention. But most of the time when I pause in mid step it’s something else. If [...]
Deceived by Perception—Again
The other day Robin said something to me—can’t remember what—but I took offense and let her know it. She said, “That’s just a story your telling yourself. It has nothing to do with me or what I think.” I had perceived—again—a meaning that wasn’t there. Perception is a mental process that occurs when external objects come [...]
