https://educationalrenaissance.com/2021/04/24/rest-for-the-weary-on-cultivating-the-intellectual-life/ Promoting a Rebirth of Ancient Wisdom for the Modern Era Tue, 02 May 2023 00:14:16 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://educationalrenaissance.com/2021/04/24/rest-for-the-weary-on-cultivating-the-intellectual-life/#comment-2500 Mon, 18 Apr 2022 21:04:47 +0000 https://educationalrenaissance.com/?p=2032#comment-2500 Solitude is useful for allowing persons to ‘collect their thoughts’ and clarify their reasoning for themselves. However, good-natured-but-serious debate is useful for identifying hidden flaws in one’s own reasoning. I always and repeatedly told my students that I learn far more from folks who disagree with me than from those who share my thoughts. The process is not necessarily ‘fun’ at times, but it is essential if one wishes not to think something that’s simply incorrect. To me there’s little more satisfying that the realization that I have just destroyed a wrong idea that I once held as valuable. It is liberating.
And, of course, I’m always willing to reciprocate.

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