knowing vs. doing
exploring the difference between having knowledge and being able to act on it. the difference between reading a lot and being able to integrate and embody those learnings.
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knowing vs. doing
Habitat Chronicles: You can't tell people anything
habitatchronicles.comThe current educational regime is based on a certain view about what kind of knowledge is important: “knowing that,” as opposed to “knowing how
Matthew Crawford • Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work
You can no longer make students do the reading or the writing. So what’s left? Only this: give them work they want to do. And help them want to do it. What, again, is education? The non-coercive rearranging of desire.
Within five years, it will make little sense for scholars of history to keep producing monographs in the traditional mold—nobody will... See more
Within five years, it will make little sense for scholars of history to keep producing monographs in the traditional mold—nobody will... See more
D. Graham Burnett • Will the Humanities Survive Artificial Intelligence? | the New Yorker
,As it turns out, “knowing better” isn’t the secret to taking action, creating momentum, or doing the things we want to do. So many things take more than just knowing. And, as it turns out, trying to do everything alone, trying to keep our struggles secret, doesn’t do what we think it will do, either.
Lisa Olivera • Tending to the shame of stuckness
To the public intellectual, one must ask: if your ideas are so good, why aren't you executing on them? It is much easier (and less impactful) to write about the importance of “green tech” than to build Tesla. Moreover, many self-titled public intellectuals are not even particularly intellectual. They are just... public.