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Horus, thanks for addressing that issue. Indeed that is how I view education, something in the model of "teach students HOW to think, not WHAT to think."
posted by
Dyl_Pickle
on November 18, 2004 at 11:05 AM
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mysteria, thanks for your comments.
I hope you'll come back, as I am thinking to develop this post.
posted by
Luxbring
on November 17, 2004 at 11:22 PM
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ExStud2006
I see your point and I think I understand it.
A free thinger is not a wild thinker. Let me make an analogy: to drive a car you need to learn form someone how to it; but then once you know it well, you have to able to drive in your own style, choose your destinations, speed, people that will come with in the car. I know that this is a crude analogy, and very limited one, but it should help express the concept.
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Luxbring
on November 17, 2004 at 11:21 PM
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ExStud2006
I see your point and I think I understand it.
A free thinger is not a wild thinker. Let me make an analogy: to drive a car you need to learn form someone how to it; but then once you know it well, you have to able to drive in your own style, choose your destinations, speed, people that will come with in the car. I know that this is a crude analogy, and very limited one, but it should help express the concept.
posted by
Luxbring
on November 17, 2004 at 11:21 PM
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Horus
I am a freethinker.
i have always been one.
i noticed how different i was when i was a tiny child
back then i did not know i was different
because i knew no difference, but from here i can see i quite well
i am with you when you say we need more at the helm
but i do not believe that the status quo has the courage it takes to
detach itself from its comforts
maybe we can start a new nation?
a society of free thinkers?
lover, mysteria
posted by
mysteria
on November 17, 2004 at 7:03 PM
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I don't know if it's possible to be a free thinker by your standards, if your standards require complete independence of any established institution, church, government, or media. Does education count? If we built a freethinking school curriculm, for example, have we not already destroyed the concept of free thought, by building a structure of learning and expecting students to conform to its precepts and norms? I envision us trying and trying to form a more freethinking program, but the very idea of forming a program of freethinking seems to defeat the purpose, almost like anarchists forming a government (however democratic they try to make it, they will find themselves exercising authority over eachother or someone else). This is one of those ideas that seems inherently contradictory. We can encourage some degree of freedom -- critical analysis, dissent, reform -- but at some point there will always be coercion, preconceived structures and norms.
posted by
Dyl_Pickle
on November 17, 2004 at 2:01 PM
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RachelAnna
I liked to your flower. Thanks.
posted by
Luxbring
on November 17, 2004 at 1:39 PM
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Nice post!!
posted by
RachelAnna
on November 17, 2004 at 1:35 PM
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WadeH, a big thanks to you.
posted by
Luxbring
on November 17, 2004 at 10:03 AM
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Being a free thinker...Who would tell you that that is too little. It was great up tell the last sentence. : )
posted by
oubleU
on November 17, 2004 at 9:58 AM
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tremacc, thanks for reading and for commenting, but thanks for liking it.
posted by
Luxbring
on November 17, 2004 at 6:36 AM
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I like this post. Thanks for writing.
posted by
Tremac
on November 17, 2004 at 5:49 AM
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justAcarpenter
thanks a lot for commenting.
posted by
Luxbring
on November 17, 2004 at 5:28 AM
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Angelz
if you understand what we want and you want it too, then you are also we...
Mainly the we is referred to mankind.
posted by
Luxbring
on November 17, 2004 at 5:28 AM
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Horus~~~
I understand what your saying ... but not knowing who is "we" ?
posted by
ANGELZ_MIND
on November 17, 2004 at 4:08 AM
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Not so little…
This seems great…
posted by
justAcarpenter
on November 16, 2004 at 11:36 PM
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