We need to have an educational system that's able to embrace all sorts of minds, and where a student doesn't have to fit into a certain mold of learning.
Interpretation
Education should accommodate diverse learning styles instead of forcing students into a single approach.
James Hillman's quote emphasizes the need for an educational system that recognizes and values the variety of ways in which students learn. Instead of expecting all students to conform to a predetermined method of learning, the system should be flexible and inclusive, allowing each student to thrive in an environment that suits their individual needs and strengths.
In practice
This quote can be used in a keynote speech at an education conference to advocate for inclusive teaching methods.
Everything that everyone is afraid of has already happened: The fragility of capitalism, which we don't want to admit; the loss of the empire of the United States; and American exceptionalism. In fact, American exceptionalism is that we are exceptionally backward in about fifteen different categories, from education to infrastructure.
Mediocrity is no answer to violence. In fact, it probably invites violence. At least the mediocre and the violent appear together as in the old Western movies - the ruffian outlaw band shooting up main street and the little white church with the little white schoolteacher wringing her hands. To cool violence you need rhythm, humor, tempering; you need dance and rhetoric. Not therapeutic understanding.
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My war - and I have yet to win a decisive battle - is with the modes of thought that and conditioned feelings that prevail in psychology and therefore also in the way we think and feel about our being. Of these conditions none are more tyrannical than the convictions that clamp the mind and heart into positivistic science (geneticism and computerism), economics (bottom-line capitalism), and single-minded faith (fundamentalism).
Instead of seeing depression as a dysfunction, it is a functioning phenomenon. It stops you cold, sets you down, makes you damn miserable.
Teach by doing whenever you can, and only fall back upon words when doing it is out of the question.
The great want of our race is perfect educators to train new-born minds, who are infallible teachers of what is right and true.
My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.
We are told there is not enough money for education, but somehow there is enough money for people to raise billions of dollars to defeat somebody in an election? Oh! Okay! Does that make sense?
After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.
The Gates Foundation has learned that two questions can predict how much kids learn: 'Does your teacher use class time well?' and, 'When you're confused, does your teacher help you get straightened out?'
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