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. Life is often more complicated and we have many logical tools at our disposal. Let’s take a look at a few, starting with a famous historical one. Benjamin Franklin invented the lightning rod and bifocal glasses, as well as charting the Gulf Stream and all manner of other scientific discoveries. He described his
an be created without understanding. Can a monkey, or perhaps some form of computerized random number generator, accidentally type out the script for Shakespeare's Hamlet or write Tolstoy’s War and Peace? Is knowledge generation simply a numbers game? Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace is generally assumed to be the
beaver, or surprising an enemy.” They offered instead to educate a dozen or so white children in the ways of the Indians “and make men of them.”(From Benjamin Franklin, An American Life, by Walter Isaacson) What has changed? Key life skills no longer include catching beaver. Otherwise, things are pretty much the sa
at we do in school. We need to think about education in a new way. Rather than wanting people to be educated, which usually means being able to quote Shakespeare or nod sagely when Freud’s name is mentioned, we need to expect people to be able to think well. Education would be better defined by defining an edu
and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society. — Benjamin Franklin Charles Darwin observed that of all the differences between humans and other animals, one capacity reigns supreme: we alone have the ability to contem
the way for awe-inspiring bursts of creativity in art, music, literature and science. A promiscuous brain enabled Bach and Bono, Picasso and Pollock, Shakespeare and Shaw, and Descartes and Darwin. A promiscuous brain enables us to imagine things we have never directly experienced, to create once unimaginable
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