Most higher education is devoted to affirming the traditions and origins of an existing elite and transmitting them to new members.
MARY CATHERINE BATESONWhat would it be like to have not only color vision but culture vision, the ability to see the multiple worlds of others.
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There are few things as toxic as a bad metaphor. You can’t think without metaphors.
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As you get up in the morning, as you make decisions, as you spend money, make friends, make commitments, you are creating a piece of art called your life.
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What would it be like to have not only color vision but culture vision, the ability to see the multiple worlds of others.
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Every loss recapitulates earlier losses, but every affirmation of identity echoes earlier moments of clarity.
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When parents die, all of the partings of the past are reevoked with the realization that this time they will not return.
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The family is changing not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors.
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Jazz exemplifies artistic activity that is at once individual and communal, performance that is both repetitive and innovative, each participant sometimes providing background support and sometimes flying free.
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Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten.
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A suprising number of physicians manage to continue to care about persons even after the rigors of medical training.
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The Christian tradition was passed on to me as a great rich mixture, a bouillabaisse of human imagination and wonder brewed from the richness of individual lives.
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Worlds can be found by a child and an adult bending down and looking together under the grass stems or at the skittering crabs in a tidal pool.
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The capacity to combine commitment with skepticism is essential to democracy.
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The human species thinks in metaphors and learns through stories.
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In many ways, constancy is an illusion.
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Goals too clearly defined can become blinkers.
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