The First of the Rest
https://fickleears.blogspot.com/2016/04/the-first-of-rest.html

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N.N. Taleb
<i>The Black Swan</i>
(2007)

<i>"The strangest thing is that people in business usually agree with me when they listen to me talk or hear me state my case. But when they go to the office the next day they revert to the Gaussian tools so entrenched in their habits. Their minds are domain-dependent, so they can exercise critical thinking at a conference while not doing so in the office."</i>

(p. 275)

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Christopher Lasch
<i>The Revolt of the Elites</i> (1995)

<i>"The great weakness in </i>[Horace]<i> Mann's educational philosophy was the assumption that education takes place only in schools."</i>
(p. 151)

(<a href="http://fickleears.blogspot.com/2021/12/lascheducation-and-politics.html">more</a>)

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Paul Goodman
"The Community of Scholars" (1964)
in <i>Compulsory Mis-Education</i> and <i>The Community of Scholars</i>

[308] <i>"The attempt to pierce to common humanity by self-awareness in groups is more realistic, I think, than the curricular program of Robert Hutchins and his friends to establish communication by teaching the common great books and philosophy. With adolescents, a great-books program is almost sure to result in merely verbal wisdom and, in fact, a superior kind of withdrawal from the world, rather than courageous initiative. Neither Hutchins nor his mentor Mark Van Doren even seems to remember that the course of study they advocate was explicitly postponed by Plato till age thirty to thirty-five, when a man had some practical experience to be scientific and philosophic </i>about<i>."</i>


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