Comments on: Independent Education: the crisis and the crossroad

By: truth1

truth1 — Fri, 28 Dec 2018 19:26:01 +0000

Those were great quotes you made. I saved them. I do believe that the mind is naturally curious and that it takes a lot to go against that tendency. choosing denial requires a lot of energy from the brain, further insuring blindness.

By: John

John — Thu, 27 Dec 2018 21:31:48 +0000

A time is coming when men will go mad, and when they see someone who is not mad, they will attack him, saying, ‘You are mad; you are not like us.’ ”
-St. Anthony the Great-

“Five percent of the people think;
ten percent of the people think they think;
and the other eighty-five percent would rather die than think.”
-Thomas A. Edison-

“We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.”
-Benjamin Franklin-

“The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.”
-Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead-

“Sometimes we find ourselves walking through life blindfolded, and we try to deny that we’re the ones who securely tied the knot.”
-Jodi Picoult, Vanishing Acts-

By: johnbarleycorn12

johnbarleycorn12 — Thu, 27 Dec 2018 01:58:36 +0000

Reblogged this on John Barleycorn and commented: Critical thinking skills are absent

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Wed, 26 Dec 2018 18:51:26 +0000

The real key is to know how to use the logic in conjunction with imagination. Then you have true creative genius. I’m afraid they are not teaching imagination in school, either . . . . . .

By: truth1

truth1 — Wed, 26 Dec 2018 04:13:14 +0000

you got that right!

By: Larry

Larry — Wed, 26 Dec 2018 01:46:29 +0000

“A society filled with people who float in the drift of non-logic is a society that declines.”

Uh-oh …

By: truth1

truth1 — Tue, 25 Dec 2018 21:55:13 +0000

Jon, every word you said made perfect sense. Now for the paradox. Some families fracture over time. Some neighborhoods do, too. Some cities die. In face, many are dying right now and some might be as good as dead as we speak. Even nations and empire have fallen, some to remain dead forever while others slowly revive over a number of decades. The scary thing is, that there is not guarantee that a fallen nation or empire will revive or do within a century. I point to the example of the waring states of the Greater Mediterranean sea area in the bronze age.

then something happened that no one foresaw or thought possible. various armies roamed to feed off those not yet affected by drought or being conquered already. I mushroomed into a vast conflagration of all the inhabitants of that greater area that had once been a prosperous and mutually beneficial trading. Tragic result was that they whole of that area plunged into a total breakdown that likely killed all but a few , who then had to recover, with only primitive means left to them. With so few, most arts and skills were lost and did not return for 400 years. A long slow gradual progress. that means that most nations lost national ID and most of their populations, a massive die-off.
The picture you paint, strongly suggest another such event to follow shortly. Why, because we did not love and value truth, logic, reason, fairness, equity, objectivity, benevolence and good will. Even the greatest and most prosperous nation can not survive without these.

but people have become too stupid and short-sighted. Hence, there is no way to avoid it!
E tu Brute? then fall USA . . . and the rest of the world, too. It is our destiny.

By: Sue

Sue — Tue, 25 Dec 2018 20:57:11 +0000

I have seen this over and over again. The media prints a story, and basically, in the way it is presented, tells us how we should feel about that story. Without doing any independent inquiry, people feel free to pile on, express their uneducated opinions, and even go on the attack with name calling, etc.

It’s a lynch mob mentality. We used to be cautioned against that, but now it is taught and encouraged.

By: Ana Daksina

Ana Daksina — Tue, 25 Dec 2018 18:16:36 +0000

Killer opening sentence! ????