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The human species thinks in metaphors and learns through stories.

Mary Catherine Bateson

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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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Affirmation Education Existing Member Tradition
Human beings tend to regard the conventions of their own societies as natural, often as sacred.
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Forget Human Natural Sacred Society
There are few things as toxic as a bad metaphor. You can’t think without metaphors.
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Bad Metaphor Toxic Yourself
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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Children Finding Togetherness World
A suprising number of physicians manage to continue to care about persons even after the rigors of medical training.
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Care Management Medicine Surprise Training
Improvisation can be either a last resort or an established way of evoking creativity.
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Creativity Establishment Improvisation Way
We are not what we know but what we are willing to learn.
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Known Learning Willing
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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Ability Color Culture Vision World
The capacity to combine commitment with skepticism is essential to democracy.
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Capacity Commitment Democracy Essential
Every loss recapitulates earlier losses, but every affirmation of identity echoes earlier moments of clarity.
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Clarity Early Loss Moments
Solutions to problems often depend upon how they’re defined.
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Definition Problem Solution
The family is changing not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors.
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Change Family Metaphor Understand
Human beings do not eat nutrients, they eat food.
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Eat Food Human
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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Answer Finding Fragment Learning Pattern Pleasure Share
Goals too clearly defined can become blinkers.
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Blink Definition Goal
The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it.
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Death End Meaning Story Time

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