John Dewey, an influential American psychologist in the 19th century, said something important: democracy begins in conversation. In other words, talking together is a radical act. Democracy is participation and deliberation. It’s about people learning to think together, take action, and coming back together to evaluate their actions.
— Cecile Andrews, author of Slow is Beautiful: New Visions of Community, Leisure and Joie de Vivre, The Circle of Simplicity: Return to the Good Life, and Less is More: Embracing Simplicity for a Healthy Planet, a Caring Economy and Lasting Happiness.
Graduate professional education continually moves back and forth along the continuum
of theory and practice. However, the responsibility of the professional is not to simply apply theory to practice, but to, “transform, adapt, merge, synthesize, criticize, and invent” (Shulman, 2004, p. 534).
— Shulman, L. S. (2004/1998). Theory, practice, and the education of professions. In S. M. Wilson (Ed.), The Wisdom of Practice: Essays on Teaching, Learning, and Learning to Teach. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
December 25, 2010 at 11:00pm
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September 26, 2010 at 1:25pm
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VIDEO // Empathic Civilization delivered May 06, 2010 at RSA
Bestselling author, political adviser and social and ethical prophet Jeremy Rifkin investigates the evolution of empathy and the profound ways that it has shaped our development and our society.
Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA), UK
The education of scientists, particularly in English-speaking countries, tends to be very specialized. They haven’t had philosophy or history in their background. If you are specialized, you have a simple idea of truth as correspondence with facts – but big concepts don’t correspond directly with facts.
— Quote above from interview. More recently, in a speech at the RSA, Mary Midgley argued that the reductive individualism which is now presented as Darwinism comes, not from Darwin’s evolutionary theory but from a wider tradition in Enlightenment thinking. Moving away from the notion of heroic independence and self-directed individualism, Midgley instead suggests that we are framed to interact constantly with one another in societies and the complex ecosystems of which we are a tiny part.
September 21, 2010 at 4:52pm
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Sterling Johnson AKA The Bubblesmith on Stinson Beach.
Shot by Mark Day.
September 11, 2010 at 7:18pm
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On the occasion of his 1969 exhibit Qu’est—ce que le Design? {What is Design?} at the Louvre in Paris, Madame L’Amic of the Musée des Arts Decoratifs interviewed Charles Eames. She asked
“What are the boundaries of design?”
Eames famous response was
“What are the boundaries of problems?”
Eames Design: The Work of the Office of Charles and Ray Eames
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