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But he did manage to coin a great phrase: the rites of passage. His book by that name explores a wide variety of rituals, emphasizing what they share. He saw rite, or ritual, as a kind of three-step path from a state of separation to a state of togetherness. Things are one way: separate, apart. Then there is a transformation, a transition, a change. When that is complete, everything is together, united or reunited
For Small Creatures Such as We
Sasha Sagan
With the loss of them there follows uncertainty, and with uncertainty, disequilibrium, since life, as both Nietzsche and Ibsen knew, requires life-supporting illusions; and where these have been dispelled, there is nothing secure to hold on to, no moral law, nothing firm. We have seen what has happened, for example, to primitive communities unsettled by the white man’s civilization. With their old taboos discredited, they immediately go to pieces, disintegrate, and become resorts of vice and disease.
Myths to Live By
Joseph Campbell
According to Piaget’s constructivist theory of learning, children are active builders of knowledge, not passive recipients. Children don’t get ideas, they make ideas.
Lifelong Kindergarten
Mitchel Resnick, Ken Robinson
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