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Neither acquiescence in scepticism nor acquiescence in dogma is what education should produce. What it should produce is a belief that knowledge is attainable in a measure, though with difficulty; that much of what passes for knowledge at any given time is likely to be more or less mistaken, but that the mistakes can be rectified by care and industry. In acting upon our beliefs, we should be very cautious where a small error would mean disaster; nevertheless it is upon our beliefs that we must act. This state of mind is rather difficult: it requires a high degree of intellectual culture without emotional atrophy. But though difficult, it is not impossible; it is in fact the scientific temper. Knowledge, like other good things, is difficult, but not impossible; the dogmatist forgets the difficulty, the sceptic denies the possibility. Both are mistaken, and their errors, when widespread, produce social disaster.


懐疑に'黙従'することも,独断に'黙従'することも,教育の生み出すべきものではない。教育が生み出すべきものは,①知識は,困難ではあるが,ある程度獲得できるものであり,②いかなる時代においても,知識として通用しているものは多かれ少なかれ誤っている可能性があるが,③しかしその誤りは'注意'と'勤勉'によって正すことができる,という'信念'である。'信念'に基づいて行動するにあたっては,小さな誤りが'災難'を招く可能性がある場合には,非常に注意しなければならない。しかしそれにもかかわらず,私たちは,'信念'に基づいて行動しなければならない。こういう'精神状態'は,かなり難しい。(なぜなら,この精神状態をうまくコントロールするには)感情を萎縮させずに,高度の'知的教養'を必要とするからである。しかし,難しいが,不可能ではない。それは,実は,'科学的な気質'(そのもの)である。知識は,他の良いものと同じく,困難ではあっても,獲得不可能なものではない。独断論者は知識獲得の難しさを忘れ,懐疑論者は知識獲得の可能性を否定する。両者は,ともに誤っている。そして,その誤りが世のなかに蔓延すれば,社会的な災難が引き起こされる。


#^http://russell-j.com/beginner/OE02-050.HTM

#RussellOnEducation #OnEducation #教育論 #レッセルの教育論
ラッセル教育論 第2章 02-05_「懐疑論」対「教条主義

> Reliable words are plain, and decorated words are unreliable.

> 信頼に足る言葉には飾り気がなく、耳障りの良い言葉は信頼するに足りない。

> 信言(しんげん)は美ならず、美言(びげん)は信ならず。

> 信言不美、美言不信

https://blog.mage8.com/roushi-81

#PlainStyle #平易文体 #老子文体 #LaoTseStyle #ちょんまげ英語日誌 #ChonMageLaoTse #LaoTzu #LaoTse #Laozi #LaoZiStyle

老子 第八十一章 信言は美ならず、美言は信ならず | ちょんまげ英語日誌

@filippo

Maybe, as a bank, you should not be using a random library taken from the internet, with a single maintainer and some 100 stars, and make it a critical dependency of your banking operations.

Maybe, as a bank, your IT should write and maintain such a library and open source it.

Maybe, as a bank, you should not continue to use the first library, and do the second thing after the first library was able to take down critical parts of your infra the first time.

Because we live in a society, and as a bank, you should be contributing to it, too.

But then, what do I know.

@julijane

Awesome if true... Funny thread...
> BREAKING: A growing group of tow truck drivers in LA are reportedly stalking ICE convoys so they can tow away all the unmarked ICE vans and SUVs that get parked incorrectly the moment the agents get out to start looking for people to abduct and deport.
https://www.threads.com/@thehalfwaypost/post/DLIUyhishIm/breaking-a-growing-group-of-tow-truck-drivers-in-la-are-reportedly-stalking-ice-
#LAProtests #TowTruckICE #TowTruckDrivers
The Halfway Post (@thehalfwaypost) on Threads

BREAKING: A growing group of tow truck drivers in LA are reportedly stalking ICE convoys so they can tow away all the unmarked ICE vans and SUVs that get parked incorrectly the moment the agents get out to start looking for people to abduct and deport.

Threads

What is co-campaigning? Ranked choice voting leads to a phenomenon of candidates actually working together—rather than just attacking each other.

#RankedChoiceVoting #RCV #Illinois #Democracy #Politics #IllinoisPolitics

In a Carl Haiassen book the ICE agents would pull over a Guanaco that quit army(or death squads) to go live in Gringolandia. Imagine the scene where hGH gut (or metabolic syndrome) guys entrap military guys with no problem using a bat to break the arms of another driver during a traffic dispute. But those kinda guys are probably hired already. Witness videos hint at organization, gut guys holding helpless victims while athletic types watch and work the surroundings. So fliers are probably more effective than taking a couple fat guys down by the knees..

My last day of work at the World Trade Center was Sept 10, 2001. I worked late, so I was going to go in late the next day. I never made it in (the planes hit in the morning). I was at 5 WTC, a 9 story building between the towers, all my coworkers evacuated

What I remember most were the missing person posters, especially plastered all over Grand Central Terminal

Now we experience it again with #ICE under #Trump

Powered by the same stupid hate and fear that powered 9/11

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/18/los-angeles-missing-posters-ice

> Notice Jesus’ audience here. If anyone strikes you, the kind of people Jesus was talking to, slaves, these are people who are used to being thus degraded. He is saying to them, “refuse to accept this kind of treatment anymore. If they backhand you, turn the other cheek.”
https://www.lutheranpeace.org/articles/transcript-of-walter-winks-nonviolence-for-the-violent/
#WalterWink #TheOtherCheek #Antistenai #StandAgainst
#StandAgainstWithoutViolence
Transcript of Walter Wink’s Nonviolence for the Violent

Video and links Our long-time friend, Ken Butigan, has written an outstanding summary of some of the brilliant nonviolence work of Walter Wink. Walter Wink’s explanation of the “Third W…

Lutheran Peace Fellowship

Saw aa IG video about this, seems too important to let slip by:
> ..Our members were asking, “What do we do now?” We reached out to La Resistencia – they’ve done actions at the detention center for over a decade now. And then we realized the Filipino community was already organizing for Lewelyn. Instead of trying to figure it out on our own, we joined with them.

https://www.laborontheline.org/p/seiu-925-and-lewelyn-dixons-fight
#TriciaSchroeder #LewelyDixon #FreedFromIce #FilipionCommunity #SEIU925 #USALabor #LaborInUSA #UnionsInUSA

SEIU 925 and Lewelyn Dixon’s Fight for Freedom

On the Line interviewed Tricia Schroeder, President of SEIU Local 925, on their campaign to free Lewelyn Dixon, a member of Local 925 at the University of Washington.

On the Line