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“intentional meandering“
For hooks and Freire, the classroom is a mirror of the world. So, when the world struggles with sexism, racism, and the many types of prejudice shaping social life, our education system struggles with them as well. The space for learning can be one of oppression, or one of liberation.
Seth Goldenberg • Radical Curiosity: Questioning Commonly Held Beliefs to Imagine Flourishing Futures
I do not owe my opponents my affection, warmth or regard. But I do owe myself a chance to live in this world without the burden of hate. “I shall permit no man, no matter what his colour might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.” Said Booker T. Washington. It reminds me of a line from Toni Morrison’s novel Love: “Hate does
... See morePhilosopher Moses Maimonides said, “Hope is belief in the plausibility of the possible, not only the necessity of the probable” (Abramsky, 2011).
well-arranged words rearrange reality.
Visakan Veerasamy • Tweet
Tools like ChatGPT are great at creating. AI can generate options in high quantities at high speed. It is great at providing more choices. But it is not great at discerning and choosing what to do and what not to do.
Billy Oppenheimer • The Cup of Coffee Theory of AI
the “choosing“ entails the importance of human decisions
In Homegoing, One of Gyasi’s wisdom spoke to me: "If in the moment of doing you felt clarity, you felt certainty, then why feel regret later?” It’s about choices in life, the feeling of regret, but also about the sense of clarity. It speaks on moment of doing. How do you know if you feel a sense of clarity when doing? It draws again on paying... See more
“You can’t force a plant to bloom. It has a cycle. You have to tend it and care for it and wait for the bloom to happen. If you don’t take care of it, it dies. The more experiences you have like this, the more you begin to understand your own cycles.“ — Ruth Asawa
The third time seeing this quote at the Asawa exhibit and each time the interpretation deepens. The quote is about patience, diligence, and the cyclical nature. Watching the sunrise and sunset also allow me to savor on the rhythm of cycles.
