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DAVID HUME (1711-76) is one of the most important among philosophers, because he developed to its logical conclusion the empirical philosophy of Locke and Berkeley, and by making it self-consistent made it incredible.
Bertrand Russell • History of Western Philosophy
paraphrased into English in 1563 by Richard Rainolde (an edition brought by colonists to New England), Progymnasmata was an enduring handbook for rhetorical study for nearly two millennia.
Scott Newstok • How to Think like Shakespeare: Lessons from a Renaissance Education
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‘intergenerational learning spaces’. ‘I believe’, he told me, ‘that you need at least three generations exploring things together to generate the conditions for real wisdom and imagination to emerge.’
Rob Hopkins • From What Is to What If: Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want
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John Amos Comenius, a Moravian bishop of the seventeenth century, a self-styled pansophist and pedagogue, is rightly considered one of the founders of the modern school. He was among the first to propose seven or twelve grades of compulsory learning. In his Magna Didactica he described schools as devices to “teach everybody everything” and outlined
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human belief systems are good at absorbing contradictions into their thinking.