Postby Technomancer » Mon Oct 27, 2003 6:44 am
I once read about a two headed man. Ever since childhood, the two heads couldn't get along. One was a nightowl, the other wanted to go to bed early, one liked classical music, the other liked rap, and so on. They would argue constantly about clothes, travelling, work, or just daily living. Eventually, they decided they'd had enough and were going to settle the matter once and for all- with a duel. They went out into a field, and each of their seconds handed them a pistol. After counting off they fired. The left head was quicker, and won the duel. However, since they shared the same body, he quickly perished anyways.
This only goes to show: Two heads are bitter, then none.
The scientific method," Thomas Henry Huxley once wrote, "is nothing but the normal working of the human mind." That is to say, when the mind is working; that is to say further, when it is engaged in corrrecting its mistakes. Taking this point of view, we may conclude that science is not physics, biology, or chemistry—is not even a "subject"—but a moral imperative drawn from a larger narrative whose purpose is to give perspective, balance, and humility to learning.
Neil Postman
(The End of Education)
Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge
Isaac Aasimov