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The human species thinks in metaphors and learns through stories.

Mary Catherine Bateson

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The human species thinks in metaphors and learns through stories.
MARY CATHERINE BATESON

Human Learning Metaphor Species Story Thinking
Solutions to problems often depend upon how they’re defined.
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Definition Problem Solution
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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Dance Important Improvisation Join Learning Ourselves Responsible Step
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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Care Design Human Learning Need Society Work
Every loss recapitulates earlier losses, but every affirmation of identity echoes earlier moments of clarity.
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Clarity Early Loss Moments
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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Conflict Desperate Element Improvisation Reflection
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
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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Goodness Life Place Remain Willing
Goals too clearly defined can become blinkers.
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Blink Definition Goal
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
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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Death Parents Realization Return Time
We are not what we know but what we are willing to learn.
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Known Learning Willing
Fluidity and discontinuity are central to the reality in which we live.
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Continue Fluid Live Reality
Human beings do not eat nutrients, they eat food.
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Eat Food Human
Often continuity is visible only in retrospect.
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Philosophy Retrospect Visible
The past empowers the present, and the sweeping footsteps leading to this present mark the pathways to the future.
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Empowerment Future Leadership Present

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