Paradoxical nature of the human self
* We separate head from heart. Result: minds that do not know how to feel and hears that do not know how to think.
* We separate facts from feelings. Result: bloodless facts that make the world distant and remote and ignorant emotions that reduce truth to how one feels today.
* We separate theory from practice. Result: theories that have little to do with life and practice that is uninformed by understanding.
* We separate teaching from learning. Result: teachers who talk but do not listen and students who listen but do not talk.
Paradoxical thinking requires that we embrace a view of the world in which opposites are joined, so that we can see the world clearly and see it whole.
(Parker J.Palmer "The Courage to Teach")
* We separate facts from feelings. Result: bloodless facts that make the world distant and remote and ignorant emotions that reduce truth to how one feels today.
* We separate theory from practice. Result: theories that have little to do with life and practice that is uninformed by understanding.
* We separate teaching from learning. Result: teachers who talk but do not listen and students who listen but do not talk.
Paradoxical thinking requires that we embrace a view of the world in which opposites are joined, so that we can see the world clearly and see it whole.
(Parker J.Palmer "The Courage to Teach")
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Really beautiful.....