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Besides the simple “In-Out” exercise, we can recite these four lines silently as we breathe in and out: Breathing in, I calm my body. Breathing out, I smile. Dwelling in the present moment, I know this is a wonderful moment!
Peace Is Every Step
Thich Nhat Hanh
Risk s of modernization sooner or later also strike those who produce or profit from them . They contain a boomerang effect, which breaks up the pattern of class and national society.
Risk Society: Towards a New Modernity
Ulrich Beck
At this point, schools from kindergarten through university are structured such that students end up less developed than they would be if they spent the equivalent amount of time doing something else. This decline in teaching and learning has a great deal to do with the dominance of reductive human capital theory as an orienting theory of education in late capitalist societies. Reductive human capital theory has made educational systems into feeders of the economy. This has turned learning into something that can be simplistically measured, and teaching into something that can be done according to a script and under surveillance.
Education in a Time Between Worlds
Zachary Stein
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