Athena

You are right, and I want to add some thoughts that support that. Each generation is different. Another term we can use is "cohort". A cohort is every...

We might want to know something about the history of education. Education began at the dawn of our use of language, around the campfire, when we thoug...

I like both statements because both are a higher standard of morality than lives centered on self-interest. Last night I listened to a lecture about e...

I want to clarify, I am thinking of everyone, the whole of society, and even things like economics and advertising. :heart: The more you all make me t...

What do you mean by that? I would think a marine might handle a bad situation very well and would go well with my reply to Jack. As I thought of this ...

I like that phrase 'war of ideas'. I think the people I admire most are those with a lot of self-confidence, a good sense of humor, a positive attitud...

Perfect! You used the right words to clarify the thought I had, but I did not have the necessary words to express my thought. I want to develop in mys...

I think you thought things out very well. Now I wish I knew where I put my copy of "Emotional Intelligence". It seems to me that someone who is repeat...

I did not read all of that but enough to believe people can disagree and remain pleasant. I am not going to fuss over right and wrong, or true or fals...

I was raised by a divorced mother who worked for low pay. As a teenager I dressed in black, smoked, and I was ready for a fight. The first guy I almos...

I have to admit I tend to react and say things spontaneously, falling way short of being the refined person I want to be. So I try to avoid people who...

Thank you. I am enjoying comparing a past I read about and in some cases experienced, with today, and the talk of the young people who are just becomi...

I may be wrong, but I want my last days to be pleasant. I want to discuss things that interest me with those who are informed and are also interested ...

I am curious. Can you give me an example of one of these guys personally attacking another one? I am really wanting to know about Descartes' notions a...

You seem to think you represent teachers. What justifies that? What do you think of grade school textbooks before 1958, when we changed the purpose of...

Okay, your mention of gun violence led me to see if the local school shooting was the first school shooting. To my amazement, there is a record of sch...

Learning is a whole lot of fun. My school teacher grandmother had me draw a picture and then tell the story of the picture. She wrote my story and fro...

Pay attention to the child's school! I don't know how we came to holding parents 100% responsible for raising children when it was a priority purpose ...

YES! Our times are a little tenser than I would like. And as I sit here with books about the history of education, and a memory of my grandmother and ...

I do not understand your post. Isn't what against the forum rules?

Okay in the weeks I have been gone, I was working on a thread about the history of education, and in ancient times, education was mostly about behavio...

You gave me a lot to think about. I migrated from this forum to the history forum because I wanted to discuss things from a historical point of view w...

Chimps and cats and other animals are curious. I don't think a God created humans. I think we evolved from an ape like animal and that we would make b...

AI says "The saying "ignorance is bliss" suggests that not knowing certain things can lead to a more peaceful and worry-free state of mind." Now add t...

What is evil other than a word? Like ignorance is an evil, but it doesn't always lead to suffering. Ignorance can be bliss.

Are you asking if Epstein and Trump have a sense of social morality? Plato gives us a story related to your question. The Ring of Gyges /?d?a??d?i?z/ ...

I asked google for what Einstein said about imagination and got this AI response... Well-known inventors, including Einstein, found the answer to a pr...

I love linguistics and learning the origin of words. The word has Greek roots Origin em and pathos The prefix "em-" in words like "embolden" or "embra...

Before the Internet, I corresponded with prisoners. Prisoners wanting letters could put their name and address in a motorcycle magazine. So this one g...

I think if you want me to read what you say, you'd better say it in a way that makes me want to read it.

And look at us today. I think fascism is more popular today than it was in the 1930s. It appears to me that we have pretty much replaced the Greek phi...

Why is that elitist? For sure, someone who has been through med school will be a better doctor than someone who doesn't even know the anatomy of our b...

Do you agree that means returning to education for good moral judgment and ending leaving moral training to the Chruch? I keep harping on this because...

I very strongly appreciate the importance of your question. Making something like eating your neighbor's children taboo may be preferable to laws. For...

What you are saying is like starting a fire in August and walking away. I am a woman, and as such, I am strongly against media and games of violence a...

You said that so well. I wish schools had statues or at least a picture of the Statue of Liberty to keep the connection between learning and liberty a...

Oh please, no one is going to look for something they know nothing about. That is not possible. When is the last time you went into a store and bought...

I don't think I said the ignorant should be silenced. However, neither should ignorance be ignored. Please keep in mind, I argue for better education....

Ah, what is common sense? How does it become common? How about a return to civics for high school students and health books that prepare first graders...

:scream: I can not agree with that much freedom, for such freedom leads to anarchy, and because anarchy is not tolerable, it leads to a dictatorship a...

I am sorry, I do not agree. If people are to have good moral judgement, we must have education for good moral judgement as we once had. Giving people ...

Only when democracy is defended in the classroom is it defended, and we stopped doing this when we replaced an education based on the humanities with ...

I will stand with my argument that a moral is a matter of cause and effect. I know about the Venus project. What is your point? Huh? There is no left ...

Here is what AI has to say..... This would also go with notions of good music. Here is what AI has to say... I want to say this thinking is very depen...

Love is hormonal. This is what AI has to say..... We can stimulate the production of these hormones by doing kind things for others, nursing a baby, r...

Thank you. I believe you are correct. I think we have underestimated the importance of nurturing and the people who do the nurturing. This is what AI ...

I am 78 too, and know what you mean about getting more meaning out of books than we once did.

Native Americans had a domestic economy and a belief system of caring for the earth. I don't think I know enough about economics to say more. However,...

That is an interesting observation about beauty. However, I think free-floating objectless love is enhanced by beauty. Like when I walk along the rive...

I do not agree with that statement because I experience love as a given. Walking along the river on a beautiful sunny day can intensify that feeling o...