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Peter Grimbeek's avatar

I once played chess with a devotee of Krishna, enjoyed that game, and made some particularly good moves. I've also supped and worked with supposedly very bright human beings and felt nought but discomfort in their presence. To my mind, a hallmark of wisdom is that its presence in a person has a capacity to increase one's own ease and depth of understanding, that is, it is something to be directly experienced. Not sure that universities can deliver on this no matter what. I see intelligence aplenty in academic settings but I'm as likely to encounter wisdom on a street corner.

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Michael Cunningham's avatar

An excellent post. I have just sent the following letter to The Australian:

The IPAs’ education unit note that “Our project is the first to call for the removal of the Sustainability priority from the primary curriculum and to demand age-appropriate, academically grounded climate education.” It is barely believable that climate-scaremongering is part of the early childhood curriculum. As an adult long involved with the alleged dangerous warming issue, I gave argued for over 20 years that it was a second-order issue and that our focus should be on increasing our capacity to deal with whatever unknown future emerged. To raise it as a concern with youngsters is appalling. Teach them what will help them in later life, don’t tell them false scare stories.

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