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Most higher education is devoted to affirming the traditions and origins of an existing elite and transmitting them to new members.

Mary Catherine Bateson

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Human beings do not eat nutrients, they eat food.
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Insight, I believe, refers to the depth of understanding that comes by setting experiences, yours and mine, familiar and exotic, new and old, side by side, learning by letting them speak to one another.
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Believe Learning Myself Talk Understand
Every loss recapitulates earlier losses, but every affirmation of identity echoes earlier moments of clarity.
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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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Human beings tend to regard the conventions of their own societies as natural, often as sacred.
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Often continuity is visible only in retrospect.
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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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Monotony and repetition are characteristic of many parts of life, but these do not become sources of conscious discomfort until novelty and entertainment are built up as positive experiences.
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We are not what we know but what we are willing to learn.
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Most higher education is devoted to affirming the traditions and origins of an existing elite and transmitting them to new members.
MARY CATHERINE BATESON

Affirmation Education Existing Member Tradition
Of any stopping place in life, it is good to ask whether it will be a good place from which to go on as well as a good place to remain.
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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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Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten.
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The capacity to combine commitment with skepticism is essential to democracy.
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Improvisation and new learning are not private processes; they are shared with others at every age. We are called to join in a dance whose steps must be learned along the way, so it is important to attend and respond. Even in uncertainty, we are responsible for our steps.
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Goals too clearly defined can become blinkers.
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