1. Kant's definition of maturity is what?
2. Education, travel, and work share what common purpose, ideally?
3. You're not grown-up if you've not rejected what?
4. Why should languages and music be learned as early as possible?
5. What is the message of Rousseau's Emile?
6. What does it mean to love a book?
7. The internet, says Nick Carr, is a machine geared for what?
8. If you don't travel you're likely to suppose what?
9. What did Rousseau say about those who do not walk?
10. What is travel's greatest gift?
Discussion Questions
- What are some other signs of being grown-up, besides the ability to think for yourself? 123
- Are you good at accepting compromise? Are the adults in your life? 124
- Have you "sifted through your parents' choices about everything"? 125
- Do you "love the world enough to assume responsibility for it?" 126
- Has your educational experience so far broken or furthered your "urge to explore the world"? Do you still "desire to learn"? 127
- Should corporations like Coca-Cola be allowed to have "pouring rights" in public schools? 132
- "You must take your education into your own hands as soon as possible." Did you? How? 140
- Should the age of legal maturity be raised to match the age of brain maturity? 140
- "Minds need at least as much exercise as bodies..." 141 Do you get enough of both forms of exercise? Too much of one or the other? Do you subscribe to Mens sana in corpore sano?
- Do you love books and reading? 143
- Do you agree with Mark Twain?: "A person who won't read has no advantage over a person who can't."
- Are you willing to go a month without internet? Or even a day? 148
- Were Augustine and Rousseau right about travel? 150-51
- Does group travel "preclude real encounters" with a place? 158
- Do you hope to live and work one day in another culture for at least a year? Do you think it will contribute to your maturity? 162-3
1. Who was Mary Baker Eddy, and what was her basic idea?
2. How is Oprah like Ronald Reagan?
3. What's the "law of attraction"?
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3. You are not grown up if you do not reject any of your parents choices.
4. Because adults "baulk when when reduced to linguistic childhood"
5."Nothing in the world is more important than raising a free and happy child"
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8. "your own cultural assumptions to make up human reality"
9. "Sit sadly like prisoners in a small, closed up, cage"
10. Understanding where you came from
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1. Kant defines maturity as "reason’s
emancipation from its self-incurred immaturity."
2. They help you to experience a different world than your own.
3. If you've not rejected some of the things your parents taught you.
4. Because the progress you make in learning them, whether as a child or an adult, are childlike in progression.
8. To understand where you come from is travel's greatest gift.
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1. Kant defines maturity as "reason’s emancipation from its self-incurred immaturity.”
3.You’re not grown-up until you’ve rejected your parents’ choices.
4. Language and music should be learned as early as possible because an adults mind has a harder time learning them.
5. “nothing in the world is more important than raising a free and happy child.”
9. “those who do not walk, sit ‘saly, like prisoners, in a small, closed-up cage.”
10.“To understand where you come from is travel's greatest gift.”
1. Mary Eddy Baker is a person that shares the similar idea as Jane Roberts and her basic idea was "was that physical existence is a collective illusive - the dream."
ReplyDelete2. Oprah promotes her "dreamworld" and "magical thinking" on a national platform. If Reagan was the first king of his fantasy then Oprah is considered a queen in her fantasy.
3. The law of attraction is a "law of nature." Things become a reality through persistent thinking.
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1. Who was Mary Baker Eddy, and what was her basic idea?
Mary Baker Eddy was the predecessor of the author of the book, “A Course in Miracles”. They both shared the basic idea that the physical existence is a collective illusion, a “dream”.
2. How is Oprah like Ronald Reagan?
If Ronald Reagan was the first king of his Fanstyland realm, Oprah was the queen of her Fantasyland. They both are sincere and brilliant Barnumesque promoters regarding their dreamworld.
3. What's the "law of attraction"?
The law of attraction is a law of nature. It is described as if the Universe is a mirror, then the law of attraction is mirroring back to you your dominant thoughts.
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1. Kant's definition of maturity is what?
Kant’s definition of maturity is to “think for yourself.”
2. Education, travel, and work share what common purpose, ideally?
These three things are fixed parts in the lives of most people, and ideally serve the purpose of helping us in the task of growing-up.
3. You're not grown-up if you've not rejected what?
You’re not grown-up if you’ve not rejected any of your parents’ choices in your life.
4. Why should languages and music be learned as early as possible?
Languages and music should be learned as early as possible because it encourages self-discipline at an early age, in addition to the fact that our brains are shaped by experience. It is quoted that “the brain of a child who has learned a second language by the age of ten has been molded in ways that make it much easier to learn a third or a fourth.”
5. What is the message of Rousseau's Emile?
Rousseau’s “Emile” explains the philosophy behind education and its importance. It is described in the book as “an attempt to provide the basis for healing the split between reason and nature that elsewhere gapes like an open wound.”
8. If you don't travel you're likely to suppose what?
If you don’t travel you’re likely to suppose your own cultural assumptions to make up a human reality. One can only recognize what those assumptions are if you have lived in a place that runs on different ones.
9. What did Rousseau say about those who do not walk?
Rousseau says that those who do not walk sit ‘sadly, like prisoners, in a small, closed-up cage.”
10. What is travel's greatest gift?
Travel’s greatest gift is understanding where you came from, because you’re seeing somewhere in which you are not familiar.
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1. Who was Mary Baker Eddy, and what was her basic idea?
Mary Baker Eddy was the founder of the Church of Christ, Scientist. Her basic idea was that there is only “belief” in pain, and that disease, illness, dying and matter itself does not exist. She also believed that evil is an illusion.
2. How is Oprah like Ronald Reagan?
Ronald Reagan, considered the first king of his Fantasyland realm, is similar in that Oprah Winfrey is considered the queen of hers. They are both sincere and brilliant promoters of their dreamworlds, and were able to reach platforms that influenced millions.
3. What's the "law of attraction"?
It is described as a law of nature, with the mindset that “nothing can come into your experience unless you summon it through persistent thoughts.”
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ReplyDelete1. Kant's definition of maturity is what? To think for yourself.
2. Education, travel, and work share what common purpose, ideally? Ideally serve the purpose of helping us in the task of growing-up.
3. You're not grown-up if you've not rejected what? You’re not grown-up if you’ve not rejected any of your parents’ choices in your life.
4. Why should languages and music be learned as early as possible? Languages and music should be learned as early as possible because it encourages self-discipline at an early age.
5. What is the message of Rousseau's Emile? Rousseau’s “Emile” explains the philosophy behind education and its importance. It is described in the book as “an attempt to provide the basis for healing the split between reason and nature that elsewhere gapes like an open wound.”
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