Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
Bertolt Brecht
Posts tagged learning
Posted 1 year ago
TED Blog | Why we should teach philosophy to kids
Compared with 72 control children, the philosophy children showed significant improvements on tests of their verbal, numerical and spatial abilities.
Philosophy isn’t just learning about dead Greek dudes- it’s a careful and effective mode of thinking.
Posted 1 year ago
The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.
Plutarch
Posted 1 year ago
250 Free Online Courses from Top Universities
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Of particular interest are David Harvey’s lectures on Capital (of course), Richard D. Wolff’s introductions to Marxian economics, and Richard Walker’s class on the economic geography of the industrial world.
Posted 1 year ago
One of the fundamental things for students is to lay aside their preconceptions about an author or text and simply read it – that is, let the text speak to you and have an open dialogue with text. In terms of reading Marx’s the Capital, for example, that doesn’t just mean laying aside being anti-Marxist, but also possible a priori enthusiasm. It doesn’t matter what you read, but you better read them extremely carefully, and actually read them instead of ‘scanning the words of the Master’. If you’re able to do that, you’re probably going to be able to bring to bear what you read when you analyze what is happening in the real world with an open and creative stance, so you can come up with new explanations of the world, and tell my generation of scholars that it’s time to go and retire.
David Harvey
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