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RSA Animate - The Divided Brain. Sir Ken Robinson: Do schools kill creativity? Thinking Within Paradoxes. I read a few years ago somewhere that a hallmark of a genius is being able to hold opposites together and transcend them. This stuck with me and over time I tried to make sense of it, because at first it was a very confusing concept. With some luck this concept began to make sense thanks to a random assortment of other things I read over the years following my discovery of this tidbit. This train of thought has now become one of my favorite things to ponder. I feel it has taught me the dangers of holding onto apparent absolutes. Once you believe in something as an absolute, you are automatically precluding yourself from believing in the opposite, which means that in some ways a part of your freedom of thought as a human being is forfeited as a result.

A good example of rising above these conventional kind of thoughts constructed with absolutes is the Wave-particle duality. You are nothing. They both hold some truth and meaning. You know nothing, You know everything. BookMooch: trade your books with other people. Academic Earth | Online Courses | Academic Video Lectures. The 10 Most Important Things They Didn't Teach You In School. By the time you're 30, you'll be hit with the crushing truth of just how much the grownups didn't teach you when you were in school. And, while liberals and conservatives haggle over whether public schools need more funding or more lessons on the Ten Commandments, we think all can agree there are some very basic, useful things that our children really, really should know.

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