"In many ways, constancy is an illusion. After……" — Mary Catherine Bateson
"In many ways, constancy is an illusion. After all, our ancestors were immigrants, many of them moving on every few years; today we are migrants in time. Unless teachers can hold up a model of lifelong learning and adaptation, graduates are likely to find themselves trapped into obsolescence as the world changes around them. Of any stopping place in life, it is good to ask whether it will be a good place from which to go on as well as a good place to remain."
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29 Quotes by Mary Catherine Bateson
Mary Catherine Bateson has 29 quotes on this site.
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The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it.
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There are few things as toxic as a bad metaphor. You can't think without metaphors.
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Of any stopping place in life, it is good to ask whether it will be a good place from which…
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Insight, I believe, refers to the depth of understanding that comes by setting experiences, yours and mine, familiar and exotic,…
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Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten.
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Caring can be learned by all human beings, can be worked into the design of every life, meeting an individual…
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In many ways, constancy is an illusion.
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As you get up in the morning, as you make decisions, as you spend money, make friends, make commitments, you…
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Fluidity and discontinuity are central to the reality in which we live.
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Worlds can be found by a child and an adult bending down and looking together under the grass stems or…
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What would it be like to have not only color vision but culture vision, the ability to see the multiple…
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The past empowers the present, and the sweeping footsteps leading to this present mark the pathways to the future.
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