"Most higher education is devoted to affirming the……" — Mary Catherine Bateson
"Most higher education is devoted to affirming the traditions and origins of an existing elite and transmitting them to new members."
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29 Quotes by Mary Catherine Bateson
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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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In many ways, constancy is an illusion. After all, our ancestors were immigrants, many of them moving on every few…
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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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More Affirming Quotes
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Despite two decisions, in 2008 and 2010, by the U.S. Supreme Court unequivocally affirming that the Second Amendment to the…
— Bob Barr
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It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing…
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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Every thought you think and every word you speak is affirming something.
— Louise Hay
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It is so inspiring to see a new group coming together not to focus on a particular war or weapons…
— Medea Benjamin
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Envy is one of the great enemies of active spirituality. It keeps us from loving our neighbours, from functioning with…
— Charles R. Swindoll
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If homosexuality is not caused by genetic factors...then that means it can be acquired... And if it can be acquired,…
— Scott Lively
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The reward of commercial civilization is the ability to consume a never-ending array of products.There are limits beyond which commodities…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Because of the interconnectedness of all minds, affirming a positive vision may be about the most sophisticated action any one…
— Willis Harman
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The dissident does not operate in the realm of genuine power at all. He is not seeking power. He has…
— Vaclav Havel
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The most incredible beauty and the most satisfying way of life come from affirming your own uniqueness.
— Jane Fonda
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Americans are a lot more open, of course. There's something more declamatory in the way you express emotions. It's a…
— Emily Blunt
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I don't think that writing, real writing, has much to do with affirming belief--if anything it causes rifts and gaps…
— Brian Evenson
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