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Has it not occurred to you that, conversely, other people do not have your difficulties because they do not react as you do to what happens?
The stupidest man I ever met had a favourite saying. It was: 'What do you think I am, stupid, or something?’
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‘When you are most convinced: that is the time to use caution about your certainty.’
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People are conditioned not only by deliberate indoctrination, but also by systems whose proponents themselves are ignorant of the need for safeguards to prevent conditioning. People are also conditioned by a constellation of experiences. In most human societies, unanimity of thought has been arrived at by an unrecognised conditioning process in which virtually all the society’s institutions may be branches of the conditioning process.
This information is neither new nor necessarily exciting. But it is essential. What is new about it is that it has been concisely and effectively revealed in studies made in the West, notably since the end of the Korean war. If you do not know or believe the fore-going, you will either have to accept it as a working hypothesis, or else leave all attempts at studying other matters aside until you have caught up with this information in the generally available sources on the subject. In such a case your basic information is incomplete, and your prospects of progress are as limited in a higher sense as if you were trying to become an academic but were not yet literate.
Learning How to Learn
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“Do Book Giveaway Programs Promote the Home Literacy Environment and Children’s Literacy-Related Behavior and Skills?” published in the journal Review of Educational Research in May 2020. www.nkytribune.com/2020/07/reading-matters-books-can-make-a-big-difference-in-a-childs-life-and-s...
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“Proverbs and truisms are for this reason dangerous, because they produce blindness or non-thought. #sufism”Help Children Learn to Read in Their Mother Tongue and in the Language of Their New Home
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Bilingual Hoopoe books give children in the diaspora a head start Hoopoe publishes universal stories from the Middle East, Afghanistan and Pakistan in bilingual editions, pairing the reader’s mother tongue with the Western language they will need for their future. These beautiful, illustrated book...INSTINTO
“Hay algunas cosas”, dijo Nasrudín, “que uno efectivamente sabe, en su fuero interno, que deben ser falsas.”
“¿Podría darme un ejemplo?”, preguntó uno que siempre buscaba pruebas de lo sobrenatural.
“Ciertamente. Por ejemplo, el otro día cuando estaba caminando por ahí, alcancé a oir un rumor de que yo estaba muerto.”
Las ocurrencias del increíble Mulá Nasrudín