Most higher education is devoted to affirming the traditions and origins of an existing elite and transmitting them to new members.
Insight, I believe, refers to the depth of understanding that comes by setting experiences, yours and mine, familiar and exotic, new and old, side by… - Mary Catherine Bateson
Insight, I believe, refers to the depth of understanding that comes by setting experiences, yours and mine, familiar and exotic, new and old, side by…
- Mary Catherine Bateson
There are few things as toxic as a bad metaphor. You can't think without metaphors. - Mary Catherine Bateson
There are few things as toxic as a bad metaphor. You can't think without metaphors.
Human beings tend to regard the conventions of their own societies as natural, often as sacred. - Mary Catherine Bateson
Human beings tend to regard the conventions of their own societies as natural, often as sacred.
We are not what we know but what we are willing to learn. - Mary Catherine Bateson
We are not what we know but what we are willing to learn.
What would it be like to have not only color vision but culture vision, the ability to see the multiple worlds of others. - Mary Catherine Bateson
What would it be like to have not only color vision but culture vision, the ability to see the multiple worlds of others.
I had repeatedly accepted inappropriate burdens, stepping in to do what needed to be done. In retrospect, I think I carried them well, but the cost w… - Mary Catherine Bateson
I had repeatedly accepted inappropriate burdens, stepping in to do what needed to be done. In retrospect, I think I carried them well, but the cost w…
In many ways, constancy is an illusion. After all, our ancestors were immigrants, many of them moving on every few years; today we are migrants in t… - Mary Catherine Bateson
In many ways, constancy is an illusion. After all, our ancestors were immigrants, many of them moving on every few years; today we are migrants in t…
As you get up in the morning, as you make decisions, as you spend money, make friends, make commitments, you are creating a piece of art called your … - Mary Catherine Bateson
As you get up in the morning, as you make decisions, as you spend money, make friends, make commitments, you are creating a piece of art called your …
Fluidity and discontinuity are central to the reality in which we live. - Mary Catherine Bateson
Fluidity and discontinuity are central to the reality in which we live.
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