When the Last Sword is Drawn
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When the Last Sword is Drawn
Has anyone else seen this? It's a samurai movie, although far better than the usual. The movie flips between the Japan of the 1860's (and its civil war) and the same country in 1899, dealing with the reminsicences of two of the samurai who lived through those times. Ultimately, it's about how they met the changes that ended their way of life, and the choices that they made. It really is a great film.
The scientific method," Thomas Henry Huxley once wrote, "is nothing but the normal working of the human mind." That is to say, when the mind is working; that is to say further, when it is engaged in corrrecting its mistakes. Taking this point of view, we may conclude that science is not physics, biology, or chemistry—is not even a "subject"—but a moral imperative drawn from a larger narrative whose purpose is to give perspective, balance, and humility to learning.
Neil Postman
(The End of Education)
Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge
Isaac Aasimov
Neil Postman
(The End of Education)
Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge
Isaac Aasimov
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