http://www.madialogan.com/2010/06/all-the-answer/ dm is my thing. Sat, 03 Sep 2011 06:14:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 http://www.madialogan.com/2010/06/all-the-answer/comment-page-1/#comment-1529 lh Mon, 14 Jun 2010 11:40:15 +0000 http://www.madialogan.com/?p=300#comment-1529 I also think discussing or reading opinions that are different than yours is helpful. Explaining your opinion to someone who disagrees with your premise forces you to dig/think deeper. I am a fan of business week and american conservative magazine (I am a moderate, and ACM is a nice alternative perspective, which I end up agreeing with more often than I would have thought.) I also think discussing or reading opinions that are different than yours is helpful. Explaining your opinion to someone who disagrees with your premise forces you to dig/think deeper. I am a fan of business week and american conservative magazine (I am a moderate, and ACM is a nice alternative perspective, which I end up agreeing with more often than I would have thought.)

]]> http://www.madialogan.com/2010/06/all-the-answer/comment-page-1/#comment-1530 Veparrish Mon, 14 Jun 2010 08:12:45 +0000 http://www.madialogan.com/?p=300#comment-1530 Per FB request, a comment on the blog: you can't reduce the question to experience/formal study. Life experience is enriched by study, and study is enlightened by experience. I am, perhaps, most grateful for those things I would not have learned if a formal course of study hadn't forced them on me. Nothing could have stopped me from learning a couple of languages or reading Shakespeare, but biology? Theology? Freudian theory? Please -- I would never have delved into those if some liberal arts curriculum developer had not held a metaphorical gun to my head. Yet without that biology course that had me alternately cursing and praying, I would have no springboard for the understanding of human physiology, an interest inspired by necessity that came much later in my life. Without the theology studies, I would have assumed that 18 years of Methodist Sunday School pretty much covered all I needed to know about religion. And if I had never learned Freudian theory, I couldn't have rejected it years later with the same satisfaction. The thing about formal education is that much of it is imposed upon us without our say -- something that we protest loudly in the midst of it, but something that, throughout our lives, leaves us muttering, "Huh! I never thought I'd use that, and now ..." Per FB request, a comment on the blog: you can't reduce the question to experience/formal study. Life experience is enriched by study, and study is enlightened by experience. I am, perhaps, most grateful for those things I would not have learned if a formal course of study hadn't forced them on me. Nothing could have stopped me from learning a couple of languages or reading Shakespeare, but biology? Theology? Freudian theory? Please — I would never have delved into those if some liberal arts curriculum developer had not held a metaphorical gun to my head. Yet without that biology course that had me alternately cursing and praying, I would have no springboard for the understanding of human physiology, an interest inspired by necessity that came much later in my life. Without the theology studies, I would have assumed that 18 years of Methodist Sunday School pretty much covered all I needed to know about religion. And if I had never learned Freudian theory, I couldn't have rejected it years later with the same satisfaction. The thing about formal education is that much of it is imposed upon us without our say — something that we protest loudly in the midst of it, but something that, throughout our lives, leaves us muttering, “Huh! I never thought I'd use that, and now …”

]]> http://www.madialogan.com/2010/06/all-the-answer/comment-page-1/#comment-1531 madia Mon, 14 Jun 2010 06:47:06 +0000 http://www.madialogan.com/?p=300#comment-1531 Professional associations are good groups to learn in too... Professional associations are good groups to learn in too…

]]> http://www.madialogan.com/2010/06/all-the-answer/comment-page-1/#comment-1513 lh Mon, 14 Jun 2010 04:40:15 +0000 http://www.madialogan.com/?p=300#comment-1513 I also think discussing or reading opinions that are different than yours is helpful. Explaining your opinion to someone who disagrees with your premise forces you to dig/think deeper. I am a fan of business week and american conservative magazine (I am a moderate, and ACM is a nice alternative perspective, which I end up agreeing with more often than I would have thought.) I also think discussing or reading opinions that are different than yours is helpful. Explaining your opinion to someone who disagrees with your premise forces you to dig/think deeper. I am a fan of business week and american conservative magazine (I am a moderate, and ACM is a nice alternative perspective, which I end up agreeing with more often than I would have thought.)

]]> http://www.madialogan.com/2010/06/all-the-answer/comment-page-1/#comment-1512 Veparrish Mon, 14 Jun 2010 01:12:45 +0000 http://www.madialogan.com/?p=300#comment-1512 Per FB request, a comment on the blog: you can't reduce the question to experience/formal study. Life experience is enriched by study, and study is enlightened by experience. I am, perhaps, most grateful for those things I would not have learned if a formal course of study hadn't forced them on me. Nothing could have stopped me from learning a couple of languages or reading Shakespeare, but biology? Theology? Freudian theory? Please -- I would never have delved into those if some liberal arts curriculum developer had not held a metaphorical gun to my head. Yet without that biology course that had me alternately cursing and praying, I would have no springboard for the understanding of human physiology, an interest inspired by necessity that came much later in my life. Without the theology studies, I would have assumed that 18 years of Methodist Sunday School pretty much covered all I needed to know about religion. And if I had never learned Freudian theory, I couldn't have rejected it years later with the same satisfaction. The thing about formal education is that much of it is imposed upon us without our say -- something that we protest loudly in the midst of it, but something that, throughout our lives, leaves us muttering, "Huh! I never thought I'd use that, and now ..." Per FB request, a comment on the blog: you can't reduce the question to experience/formal study. Life experience is enriched by study, and study is enlightened by experience. I am, perhaps, most grateful for those things I would not have learned if a formal course of study hadn't forced them on me. Nothing could have stopped me from learning a couple of languages or reading Shakespeare, but biology? Theology? Freudian theory? Please — I would never have delved into those if some liberal arts curriculum developer had not held a metaphorical gun to my head. Yet without that biology course that had me alternately cursing and praying, I would have no springboard for the understanding of human physiology, an interest inspired by necessity that came much later in my life. Without the theology studies, I would have assumed that 18 years of Methodist Sunday School pretty much covered all I needed to know about religion. And if I had never learned Freudian theory, I couldn't have rejected it years later with the same satisfaction. The thing about formal education is that much of it is imposed upon us without our say — something that we protest loudly in the midst of it, but something that, throughout our lives, leaves us muttering, “Huh! I never thought I'd use that, and now …”

]]> http://www.madialogan.com/2010/06/all-the-answer/comment-page-1/#comment-1511 madia Sun, 13 Jun 2010 23:47:06 +0000 http://www.madialogan.com/?p=300#comment-1511 Professional associations are good groups to learn in too... Professional associations are good groups to learn in too…

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