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from diverse backgrounds sometimes have difficulty recognizing one
another as fellow citizens in thecommunity of reason. This is so,
frequently, because actions and motives require, and do not always
receive, a patient effort of interpretation. The task of world citizenship
requires the would-be world citizen to become a sensitive and emphatic
interpreter. Education at all ages should cultivate the capacity
for such interpreting. |
Martha C. Nussbaum, Cultivating
Humanity
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survival of man as a responsible being in the Communications Era
is not to be won where the communication originates, but where it
arrives. |
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| We now have the capacity, even the moral
obligation to allow the wide-ranging, feverish, and moody world
of cyberspace to enter into our classrooms. We have to experience
it for ourselves, and we have to apply our dialectical methods to
cyberspace so as to begin to describe and define a new world order
that is dangerously not looking at the past so much, but that is
looking more so to the dynamism and transformation of evolving social
history—to the future. This is what excites us—but more
importantly this is what excites our students. |
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