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.
MARY CATHERINE BATESONThe human species thinks in metaphors and learns through stories.
More Mary Catherine Bateson Quotes
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We are not what we know but what we are willing to learn.
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Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten.
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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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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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A disgruntled reflection on my own life as a sort of desperate improvisation in which I was constantly trying to make something coherent from conflicting elements to fit rapidly changing settings.
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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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Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.
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As we age we have not only to readdress earlier developmental crises but also somehow to find the way to three affirmations that may seem to conflict. … We have to affirm our own life. We have to affirm our own death. And we have to affirm love, both given and received.
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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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Caring can be learned by all human beings, can be worked into the design of every life, meeting an individual need as well as a pervasive need in society.
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In many ways, constancy is an illusion.
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The human species thinks in metaphors and learns through stories.
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Solutions to problems often depend upon how they’re defined.
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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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The critical question about regret is whether experience led to growth and new learning. Some people seem to keep on making the same mistakes, while others at least make new ones. Regret and remorse can be either paralyzing or inspiring.
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