There are different roads that may be taken in our quest for knowledge. The road of formal education is the surest way to fame and fortune ; but is it always the road to enlightenment?
Posts Tagged ‘learning’
A meeting of minds
Posted in Philosophy, religion, tagged Apocalypse, DH Lawrence, Evolution, knowledge, learning on February 12, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Realization
Posted in poetry, tagged adventure, learning on February 2, 2012 | 5 Comments »
Realization Atop the lonely mountainside There sits a lonely child ; The chill that penetrates his bones Makes hard his soul and wild. He thought him freedom he would find When once he broke him free From labours of the rocky climb. But it was not to be. Thirteen long years of study toiled To [...]
Sensitivity
Posted in culture, Psychology, tagged language, learning, sensitive period, speech on April 15, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Back in the fifties, when the world and I were young, it was quite common for the BBC to broadcast interesting and informative tv programmes. I learned much from watching, and listening to, impossibly clever professors of this and doctors of that discussing really important subjects. Of all the delights that came with these discussions [...]
The gifts in our nature
Posted in Philosophy, tagged chance, gifts, gratitude, learning, talents, William Cobbett on April 10, 2011 | 4 Comments »
When we were young we were told that all the essentially good things we possess are gifts. They are talents, and are not in any way due to any powers of our own. If I can see the beauty of a colourful garden, it is not on account of anything I did ; if I [...]
The age of the machine
Posted in Biography, Philosophy, Psychology, tagged aggression, Freud, infancy, learning, passion on February 26, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Is an infant much more than a biological machine?