30 Oct Words to Ponder #9
"No social problem is as universal as the oppression of the child." Maria Montessori ...
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24 Oct Words to Ponder #8
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This week's words are from Fred Newman's and my book, Lev Vygotsky: Revolutionary Scientist—restructured from text* to poem. To reshape our emotional practice— to decide for ourselves what it is we want to do with anger, joy, humiliation and the rest of our incredibly complex subjectivity (which is nameless) and with the emotions newly created through/in the activity of building community that redefines...
14 Oct Words to Ponder #7
"Some people would say that we need a ground from which to act. We need a shared collective ground for collective action. I think we need to pursue the moments of degrounding, when we're standing in two different places at once; or we don't know exactly where we're standing; or...
04 Oct Words to Ponder #6
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This week's words are from Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass—a very playful practical-philosopical book containing hundreds of thinking/speaking muddles. Here's two of them. I. White Queen: Let's consider your age to begin with—how old are you? Alice: I'm seven and a half exactly. White Queen: You needn't say "exactually: I can believe it without that....
25 Sep Words to Ponder #5
This week's words to ponder are a few of the wonderfully ponderable quotes atrributed to the great Yogi Berra—baseball legend and a bona fide American wordsmith. (There are lots more in The Yogi Book.) Yogi Berra passed away September 22, 2015 at the age of 90. “I really didn’t say everything I said.” “Don’t...
18 Sep Words to Ponder #4
The assumption of an internal or mental world invites alienation, loneliness, distrust, hierarchy, competition, and self-doubt; favored is a society in which people become commodities and relationships are devalued. This concept of bounded being finds its origins not within the interior of individual minds, but within co-action. It is from...
12 Sep Words to Ponder #3
Something which is only supposed to take shape at the very end of development, somehow influences the very first steps in this development. Lev Vygotsky ...
02 Sep Words to Ponder #2
"I love to discover potential in people who aren't thought to have any." Oliver Sacks, who passed away on August 26, 2015 ...
20 Aug Words to Ponder #1
This post begins what I will try to make a weekly feature—a sharing of quotes that inspire me think/see/feel/relate in some (new) ways. Here's one I return to over and over again. "A psychology with a natural science method contains an insoluble contradiction. It is a natural science about unnatural things [and produces]...