curiosity
What results is a national education system that deepens the economic class divide and makes curiosity available to those who have position, wealth, and the luxury of time without the burden of labor.
Seth Goldenberg • Radical Curiosity: Questioning Commonly Held Beliefs to Imagine Flourishing Futures
Learning and humility are kissing cousins. Humility is a celebration of the awareness that you are a part of something much greater than yourself. Holding this form of humility as a present sensibility calibrates an engagement with the world as interconnected. Through humility, we see ourselves in relationship to other forces. An ecology of
... See moreSeth Goldenberg • Radical Curiosity: Questioning Commonly Held Beliefs to Imagine Flourishing Futures
Intellectual humility is also associated with the desire to learn new information. People who are high in intellectual humility score higher in epistemic curiosity, which is the motivation to pursue new knowledge and ideas. Their higher curiosity seems to be motivated both by the fact they enjoy learning new information and by the distress they
... See moreGreater Good • What Does Intellectual Humility Look Like?
Knowledge responds to the gravitational pull of questions: new questions, and new questions about old questions.
Sindhu Shivaprasad • Questions Are Desire Paths of Curiosity
Knowledge can no longer be thought of as a destination, a fixed point, or a static state. Curiosity is a verb for living rather than a noun to hold. In this conception of learning we may not seek instructors of knowledge as much as guides to experiences.
