Posts tagged philosophy
5 Things Everybody Ought to Know About Online Learning
When you think of your childhood school-time, chances are that your memories are very similar to those of many other people from all kinds of generations, countries or cultures and look something like this: “Sitting in rows, facing a teacher and blackboard, we were pretending to pay attention, hunched over worksheets, surprise exams or (mostly…
Stretching The Human Psyche
An Idea That Didn’t Come Easily It is not an exaggeration to say that I spent a large chunk of my life working towards what I am writing in this article. I knew there was something here, and I was searching for specifics, but those specifics – and words useful for describing them – were…
Mongering Hope
Deny Not Others Their Hope. Semi-occasionally, I glance at the blog by Andrew Sullivan. Not that this is his fault, as he’s quoting two other people having an online argument, but this post is grievously depressing. Essentially, it began with an argument that it is – and I quote – horrible to teach to children…
Zen and English, Part 1: Earth
The Post of Earth Earth represents the foundation of knowledge. It represents facts, logic, and reality. Knowledge must begin with what is tangible to our human experience. This experience is defined by the human body. We may say that we know that which we can touch, taste, smell, hear, and see, roughly in that order….
On Friendship, Benevolence… And Strategy
A More Modern Version Instead of quoting Sun Tzu or Nietzsche, let me start with a version actually coined by my own father, one Eric Bourque: You should make your friends not want to be your enemies, and you should make your enemies want to be your friends. – Eric Bourque Seriously, there’s a ton…
Nietzsche, Zen and Slaps In The Face
Waking Up Your Mind So I was testing this new toy called StumbleUpon (new to me, anyway) and found a site called Raptitude. Here, I found a page with “40 Belief-Shaking Remarks From A Ruthless Nonconformist,” that nonconformist being Friedrich Nietzsche. Now, I had only heard of Nietzsche by reputation, actually; and a bad reputation…