History of Ideas
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 PrologueAgainst School |
I taught for thirty years in some of the worst schools in Manhattan, and in some of the best, and during that time, I became an expert in boredom. | John Taylor Gatto | 11 | 2010 | $1.10 Add |
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From Everything You Know About Schools is Wrong |
Forced schooling seduces the trapped into believing that inert knowledge, memorized fact bits and sequences is the gold standard of intellectual achievement. Learning to connect those bits into … | John Taylor Gatto | 26 | 2010 | $2.60 Add |
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From  Smashing Heads Doesn’t Open MindsMorality Binds and Blinds with Jonathan Haidt |
Ingrained, tribal behaviors can bind and blind us, and shut down open-minded thinking. Looking at the dynamic of polarization from the point of view of tribes and teams is enlightening and useful … | James Hoggan | 9 | 2016 | $0.90 Add |
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From The Mighty Tool of Public NarrativePsychic Numbing with Paul Slovic |
When numbers soar, our consistency with basic values and concerns collapses. Most people are caring and highly responsive when they hear of an individual’s desperate plight, yet are numbly … | James Hoggan | 10 | 2016 | $1.00 Add |
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From The Mighty Tool of Public NarrativeSometimes David Wins with Marshall Ganz |
Resourcefulness — fueled by courage, commitment and imagination — can overcome nominally powerful resources, as well as the arrogance that often goes with them. | James Hoggan | 12 | 2016 | $1.20 Add |
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From From the HeartThe Golden Rule with Karen Armstrong and Joan Halifax |
Compassion is a virtuous cycle, and practicing the Golden Rule yields an expanded sense of self, which yields ever more compassionate behavior.philosophers and religious leaders such as … | James Hoggan | 7 | 2016 | $0.70 Add |
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From From the HeartSpeak the Truth, but not to Punish with Thich Nhat Hanh |
Thich Nhat Hanh used the example of a pine tree and suggested, what if that tree asked us what it could do to help the world? Our answer would be very clear: “You should be a beautiful, … | James Hoggan | 10 | 2016 | $1.00 Add |
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From EpilogueLessons Learned |
Why aren’t people demanding action on environmental issues like climate change, despite the overwhelming evidence? This mission evolved along the way, and soon I was looking into the sorry … | James Hoggan | 12 | 2016 | $1.20 Add |
