Sneaking in a quote.
Three years ago I found an opportunity to mention
Mao's Little Red Book of quotations, but on that page I didn't bring (as far as
I know) a real quotation. This time, I can. I've found it, of course, on numerous
web pages, but not as a standalone quote, so I guess I can be permitted to post it, yet again, here. It's from "On Practice" (July 1937), Selected Works, Vol. I,
pp. 299-300, and in chapter 22 of the Little Red Book (Methods of Thinking and
Methods of Work): Whoever wants to know a thing has
no way of doing so except by coming into contact with it, that is, by living (practising)
in its environment. ... If you want knowledge, you must take part in the practice
of changing reality. If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change
the pear by eating it yourself.... If you want to know the theory and methods
of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates
in direct experience.
Hmm... Sounds like John Dewey.
Go to: A fertile breeding ground for the hive mind, or
Go to: A
magic strand?