— Stephen Jay Gould American evolutionary biologist 1941 - 2002
"Glow, Big Glowworm", p. 264
Bully for Brontosaurus (1991)
„Our set of questions is best regarded as a metaphor of our sense of relevance.“
[1] Will your questions increase the learner's will as well as capacity to learn? Will they help to give him a sense of joy in learning? Will they help to provide the learner with confidence in his ability to learn?
[2] In order to get answers, will the learner be required to make inquiries? (Ask further questions, clarify terms, make observations, classify data, etc?)
[3] Does each question allow for alternative answers (which implies alternative modes of inquiry)?
[4] Will the process of answering the questions tend to stress the uniqueness of the learner?
[6] Would the answers help the learner to sense and understand the universals in the human condition and so enhance his ability to draw closer to other people?
Teaching as a Subversive Activity (1969)
Kontext: These questions are not intended to represent a catechism for the new education. These are samples and illustrations of the kind of questions we think worth answering. Our set of questions is best regarded as a metaphor of our sense of relevance. If you took the trouble to list your own questions, it is quite possible that you prefer many or them to ours. Good enough. The new education is a process and will not suffer from the applied imaginations of all who wish to be a part of it. But in evaluating your own questions, as well as ours, bear in mind that there are certain standards that must be used. These standards must also be stated in the form of questions:
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„Our best theories are not only truer than common sense, they make more sense than common sense…“
— David Deutsch, buch The Fabric of Reality
The Fabric of Reality (1997)
— Hermann von Keyserling German philosopher 1880 - 1946
Count Hermann Keyserling, The Huston Smith Reader, p. 122
— Mihajlo D. Mesarovic Serbian academic 1928
Cited in: John Cunningham Wood (1993) Thorstein Veblen: Critical Assessments. p. 408
Mankind at the Turning Point, (1974)
— Per Bak Danish physicist 1948 - 2002
[Per Bak, How Nature Works: the science of self-organized criticality, Springer, 1996, 0387947914]
„Metaphors are thus the very medium and outcome of our analysis.“
— Christopher Tilley British postprocessual archaeologist. 1955
[Buchli (Ed.), Victor, Christopher, Tilley, The Material Culture Reader, 2002, Berg, 1-85973-559-2, Oxford]
„There are questions we could not get past if we were not set free from them by our very nature.“
— Franz Kafka, buch Die Zürauer Aphorismen
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The Zürau Aphorisms (1917 - 1918)
„Metaphor has traditionally been regarded as the matrix and pattern of the figures of speech.“
— Marshall McLuhan Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar-- a professor of English literature, a literary critic, and a communicatio… 1911 - 1980
Quelle: 1980s, Laws of Media: The New Science (with Eric McLuhan) (1988), p. 231
— Gerhard Richter German visual artist, born 1932 1932
Quelle: after 2000, Doubt and belief in painting' (2003), p. 86, note 12
— Sallie McFague American feminist and theologian 1933 - 2019
Speaking in Parables (1975), p. 4
— Edsger W. Dijkstra Dutch computer scientist 1930 - 2002
Dijkstra (1984) The threats to computing science http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD08xx/EWD898.html (EWD898).
1980s
— William John Macquorn Rankine civil engineer 1820 - 1872
p, 125
"On the Harmony of Theory and Practice in Mechanics" (Jan. 3, 1856)
— Roger Penrose English mathematical physicist, recreational mathematician and philosopher 1931
Foreword (March 2007) to Quantum Aspects of Life (2008), by Derek Abbott.
Kontext: Does life in some way make use of the potentiality for vast quantum superpositions, as would be required for serious quantum computation? How important are the quantum aspects of DNA molecules? Are cellular microtubules performing some essential quantum roles? Are the subtleties of quantum field theory important to biology? Shall we gain needed insights from the study of quantum toy models? Do we really need to move forward to radical new theories of physical reality, as I myself believe, before the more subtle issues of biology — most importantly conscious mentality — can be understood in physical terms? How relevant, indeed, is our present lack of understanding of physics at the quantum/classical boundary? Or is consciousness really “no big deal,” as has sometimes been expressed?
It would be too optimistic to expect to find definitive answers to all these questions, at our present state of knowledge, but there is much scope for healthy debate...
— Michael J. Sandel American political philosopher 1953
The Procedural Republic and the Unencumbered Self, 1984
