July 24, 2009
Nothing's wrong
Nothing's wrong with anyone's mind that can't be fixed by a rigorous application of logic. Teach logic and rhetoric, teach kids to THINK, and they will learn how to tell good facts from bad facts, how to analyze statistics, and most important, they will remember that it's FUN to think. Everyone has a mind to which they owe respect and which they ought to nurture with care. So taught Carol Bly, and so say I.
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Carol Bly, who
got me all fired up about connections between neuroscience and morality and art.
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- Minneapolis, MN, United States
- From 1700s Italy, "dilettante" originally meant "lover of the arts," but became a pejorative when professionalism took hold during the 18th century. A dilettante became a mere lover of art as opposed to one who earned a living from it. Today, the word refers to a poseur, or one pretending to be an artist. synonyms: dabbler, sciolist, dilettanteish, dilettantish, sciolistic Usage Examples “It’s better up here away from the phonies and the dilettantes. Here I can do what I want and no one comes to sneer. You’re not a sneerer, are you?” - Flowers for Algernon ‘There were no scientists in Stuart England,’ we are told, ‘and all the men we have grouped together under that heading were in their varying degrees dilettantes.’ - The Invention of Science Charles wasn’t a dilettante; he was serious about the breeding and created his own new lines of pigeons. - Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith source: https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/dilettante
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