Sword and Book Literacy and the martial skills: these are the two most restricted groups of skills in history. Books and weapons the most restricted items in history. Throughout history government has sought to restrict public access to information and the ability to defend themselves. The reasons given for these restrictions are often reasonable. Time and time again we are implored to trust and rely upon the experts in matter large (national security) and small (how best to reduce our waist lines). If the experts you rely upon are not worthy of your trust, then you are a lamb (helpless by your own actions) trusting your fate to wolves you have allowed to guard you. Does getting caught drunk driving make you fit to lead a government? When you've run through the list in your head, can you find anyone you trust in our government? The book and the sword.
English Is an Overwhelmingly Positive Language - Hans Villarica University of Vermont mathematicians analyze billions of words in literature, music, and even Twitter, and find that happiness is a constant. PROBLEM: Last month, University of Vermont researchers led by mathematician Peter Dodds proclaimed that average global happiness had been dropping for the past two years after studying billions of tweets worldwide. METHODOLOGY: To verify their findings and check if English is inherently positive or negative, the scientists analyzed billions of words from Twitter, a half-century of music lyrics, 20 years of The New York Times, and millions of books going back to 1520. After finding the 10,222 most frequently used English words from these four sources, they asked a group of volunteers to rate the emotional temperature of these words. RESULTS: There was an overwhelming preponderance of happier words among the top 5,000 words in each of the sources. CONCLUSION: English is strongly biased toward being positive.
30 Books I'm Glad I Read Before 30 In various ways, these 30 books convey some of the philosophy of how Angel and I live our lives. I honestly credit a fraction of who I am today to each title. Thus, they have indirectly influenced much of what I write about on this site. A medley of both fiction and nonfiction, these great reads challenged my internal status quo, opening my mind to new ideas and opportunities, and together they gave me a basic framework for living, loving, learning and working successfully. If you haven’t read these books yet, I highly recommend doing so. Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert – Gilbert, a Harvard professor of psychology has studied happiness for decades, and he shares scientific findings that just might change the way you look at the world. What are your favorite books? Photo by: Katie Harris
The Benefit of Schooling I need to learn arithmetic and calculations, but do I need to learn it in a classroom over twelve years and including things such as calculus and quadratic equations that very few people need to understand and fewer actually use. I need to learn to read and write, but do I need to learn the difference between a Shakespearian or Petrarchan sonnet? I need to know the history of our culture and the changes and context that it will provide for understanding current events, but do I need to know who the commanders were at the battle of Leningrad? I remember being tested on all of these things and I know that I answered most of them correctly on the test. Accounting, however, was an optional class and I was never given any lessons on the laws and paperwork that I have encountered as a adult. There is a distinct benefit to schooling, but that benefit is for those people who wield the whips. "The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed." Steve Biko- Activist
World view Origins[edit] Linguistics[edit] The founder of the idea that language and worldview are inextricable is the Prussian philologist, Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767–1835). Humboldt argued that language was part of the creative adventure of mankind[vague]. Culture, language and linguistic communities developed simultaneously, he argued, and could not do so without one another. In stark contrast to linguistic determinism, which invites us to consider language as a constraint, a framework or a prison house, Humboldt maintained that speech is inherently and implicitly creative. Edward Sapir also gives an account of the relationship between thinking and speaking in English. The linguistic relativity hypothesis of Benjamin Lee Whorf describes how the syntactic-semantic structure of a language becomes an underlying structure for the world view or Weltanschauung of a people through the organization of the causal perception of the world and the linguistic categorization of entities. Folk-epics[edit]
The Bone Game Slahal, or the Bone game is a Coast Salish sleight of hand game. There are two 'bones' one marked with a red stripe. A player on one team take turns passing the bones between hands, and the other team's player must choose the hand that does not have the red striped bone. The game is also called the bloodless war game. Why would a culture use a game of open deception as such an important practice that it would earn such a name? Why would sleight of hand be so central in a culture's games? I submit that this game is useful to the culture because it teaches critical thinking. The game also implicitly shows that diplomacy is deceptive and that there are things the other group is trying to conceal. The game serves as a practice for catching cheats and tricksters and watching for dirty tricks from opponents. This idea of training through play and through games is widespread amongst tribal and traditional cultures.
Cosmovisión Cosmovisión o "visión del mundo" o en la forma original alemana Weltanschauung (AFI: [vɛlt.ʔan ʃaʊ.ʊŋ]); es una imagen o figura general de la existencia, realidad o "mundo" que una persona, sociedad o cultura se forman en una época determinada; y suele estar compuesta por determinadas percepciones, conceptuaciones y valoraciones sobre dicho entorno. A partir de las cosmovisiones, los agentes cognitivos (sean esas personas o sociedades) interpretan su propia naturaleza y la de todo lo existente, y definen las nociones comunes que aplican a los diversos campos de la vida, desde la política, la economía o la ciencia hasta la religión, la moral o la filosofía. Definición[editar] Una cosmovisión es el conjunto de opiniones y creencias que conforman la imagen o concepto general del mundo que tiene una persona, época o cultura, a partir de la cual la interpreta su propia naturaleza y la de todo lo existente. Principales tipos de Weltanschauungen según Wilhelm Dilthey[editar] Véase también[editar]
List of common misconceptions From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia This incomplete list is not intended to be exhaustive. This list corrects erroneous beliefs that are currently widely held about notable topics. Arts and culture Food and cooking Roll-style Western sushi. Searing meat does not "seal in" moisture, and in fact may actually cause meat to lose moisture. Legislation and crime Literature The Harry Potter books, though they have broken children's book publishing records, have not led to an increase in reading among children or adults, nor slowed the ongoing overall decline in book purchases by Americans, and children who did read the Harry Potter books were not more likely to go on to read more outside of the fantasy and mystery genres.[21][22][23][24] Music Religion Hebrew Bible The forbidden fruit mentioned in the Book of Genesis is commonly assumed to be an apple,[27] and is widely depicted as such in Western art. Buddhism The historical Buddha was not obese. Christianity Islam Sports Words and phrases History Biology
Weltanschauung, Vision du monde Un article de Wikipédia, l'encyclopédie libre. Weltanschauung [vɛlt.ʔanˌʃaʊ.ʊŋ] est un terme allemand désignant la conception du monde de chacun selon sa sensibilité particulière. Il associe Welt ('monde') et Anschauung ('vision, opinion, représentation'). La Weltanschauung est au départ une vision du monde d'un point de vue métaphysique, notamment dans l'Allemagne romantique ou moderne. Il s'agit initialement d'une conception du monde datant du Moyen Âge: — Robertson Davies Le monde des merveilles [réf. nécessaire] Hors du champ de la philosophie, la notion de Weltanschauung est aujourd'hui souvent rendue par le terme moderne de paradigme, dont elle constitue l'un des sens. Modernité du concept de Weltanschauung[modifier | modifier le code] Citations[modifier | modifier le code] Carl Gustav Jung évoque la notion de Conception du monde dans ses écrits : « Toute conscience supérieure appelle une Weltanschauung (une conception du monde). « 5. Notes et références[modifier | modifier le code]
Critical Thinking Activities Au fait, c'est quoi, "l'effet Matilda"? 2% de noms de rue attribués à des femmes célèbres (nous en parlions dans notre revue de web pas plus tard qu’hier), à peine plus de 3% de personnages historiques féminins parmi ceux cités dans les manuels scolaires (ainsi que le révélait il y a quelques semaines une étude du Centre Hubertine Auclert), seulement 2 femmes au Panthéon français (dont l’une y repose en tant qu’épouse)… Mais pourquoi les femmes sont-elles si rares au contingent de ceux dont on reconnait l’apport essentiel aux progrès de l’humanité? Prisme sexiste (éventuellement inconscient) chez qui décide de rendre hommage ou pas à une personnalité en lui donnant un nom de rue ou en lui accordant un paragraphe dans un ouvrage de référence? Résultat de l’insuffisant accès des femmes à l’éducation jusqu’à des temps récents? Ces hypothèses s’explorent, mais pour cerner plus précisément la question, il faut aussi penser les conditions d’accès à la postérité des figures majeures de toute époque…. “Matthieu et l’ange”, Guido Reni
Principle of bivalence In formal logic, the principle of bivalence becomes a property that a semantics may or may not possess. It is not the same as the law of excluded middle, however, and a semantics may satisfy that law without being bivalent.[2] The principle of bivalence is studied in philosophical logic to address the question of which natural-language statements have a well-defined truth value. Sentences which predict events in the future, and sentences which seem open to interpretation, are particularly difficult for philosophers who hold that the principle of bivalence applies to all declarative natural-language statements.[2] Many-valued logics formalize ideas that a realistic characterization of the notion of consequence requires the admissibility of premises which, owing to vagueness, temporal or quantum indeterminacy, or reference-failure, cannot be considered classically bivalent. Reference failures can also be addressed by free logics.[5] Relationship with the law of the excluded middle[edit]
Neil Gaiman: Why our future depends on libraries, reading and daydreaming It’s important for people to tell you what side they are on and why, and whether they might be biased. A declaration of members’ interests, of a sort. So, I am going to be talking to you about reading. And I am biased, obviously and enormously: I’m an author, often an author of fiction. So I’m biased as a writer. And I’m here giving this talk tonight, under the auspices of the Reading Agency: a charity whose mission is to give everyone an equal chance in life by helping people become confident and enthusiastic readers. And it’s that change, and that act of reading that I’m here to talk about tonight. I was once in New York, and I listened to a talk about the building of private prisons – a huge growth industry in America. It’s not one to one: you can’t say that a literate society has no criminality. And I think some of those correlations, the simplest, come from something very simple. Fiction has two uses. I don’t think there is such a thing as a bad book for children. It’s tosh.
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