Most higher education is devoted to affirming the traditions and origins of an existing elite and transmitting them to new members.
MARY CATHERINE BATESON
The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it.
More Mary Catherine Bateson Quotes
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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.
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There are few things as toxic as a bad metaphor. You can’t think without metaphors.
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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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We are not what we know but what we are willing to learn.
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Fluidity and discontinuity are central to the reality in which we live.
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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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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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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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A suprising number of physicians manage to continue to care about persons even after the rigors of medical training.
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Learning to savor the vertigo of doing without answers or making do with fragmentary ones opens up the pleasures of recognizing and playing with patterns, finding coherence within complexity, sharing within multiplicity.
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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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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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The capacity to combine commitment with skepticism is essential to democracy.
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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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Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.
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