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One of the main reasons we stick with simplistic metaphors such as the "mind-as-computer" is because they do not challenge our status quo systems and processes. __Fundamentally changing our dominant metaphor for the mind requires fundamentally changing our educational practices.__ It would make us change everything, from standardized testing to classroom activities. And this brings us to the heart of the issue: there are injustices done to students as a result of their being viewed and treated like something they are not.
Education in a Time Between Worlds
Zachary Stein
I make the poem of evil also—I commemorate that part also; I am myself just as much evil as good, and my nation is—And I say there is in fact no evil, Or if there is, I say it is just as important to you, to the land, or to me, as anything else.
Poems by Walt Whitman
Walt Whitman and William Michael Rossetti
With regular books, read the text and skip the footnotes; with those written by academics, read the footnotes and skip the text; and with business books, skip both the text and the footnotes.
The Bed of Procrustes
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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