This is a moment of enormity for American higher education. Many of President Trump’s top advisers are the architects of Project 2025, which seeks to dismantle higher education, not reform it, and to replace what they perceive as woke Marxist ideology with their own conservative ideology.
~ Lynn Pasquerella – President of the American Association of Colleges and Universities
via Colleges Wonder if They Will Be ‘the Enemy’ Under Trump
published on November 11, 2024 in the New York Times
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Domesticated animals are said to serve three functions, sometimes called the 3 F’s: food, fiber and friends. Dogs have made the complete transition to friends. For most people, cattle remain solidly in the first two categories, but I have no doubt that they can be friends, too.
~ Gregory Berns via The New York Times
Dr. Gregory S. Berns is a member of the College of Arts and Sciences faculty at Emory University in Atlanta where he teaches psychology.
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People often say that elephants never forget, but neither do cattle. They can recognize pictures of herd mates as well as humans they know.
~ Gregory Berns via The New York Times
Dr. Gregory S. Berns is a member of the College of Arts and Sciences faculty at Emory University in Atlanta where he teaches psychology.
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While cattle are as intelligent and as lovable as dogs, I’ve found that they go through life at their own leisurely speed. Whereas dogs adapt to the rhythms of human society in all its varied forms, cattle don’t abide sudden movements or states of human agitation. By forcing people to adopt their pace, cattle connect us to the environment in ways that no other animal does. It may be time to take seriously the beneficial effects of cattle on our mental and emotional states, just as we do for other animals, such as dogs and horses.
~ Gregory Berns via The New York Times
Dr. Gregory S. Berns is a member of the College of Arts and Sciences faculty at Emory University in Atlanta where he teaches psychology.
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Intuition is a method of feeling one’s way intellectually into the inner heart of a thing to locate what is unique and inexpressible in it.
~ Henri-Louis Bergson
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I would say act like a man of thought and think like a man of action.
~ Henri-Louis Bergson
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A philosopher worthy of the name has never said more than a single thing: and even then it is something he has tried to say, rather than actually said.
~ Henri-Louis Bergson
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I cannot escape the objection that there is no state of mind, however simple, that does not change every moment.
~ Henri-Louis Bergson
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Marxism has been the greatest fantasy of our century. It was a dream offering the prospect of a society of perfect unity, in which all human aspirations would be fulfilled and all values reconciled.
~ Leszek Kołakowski
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A modern philosopher who has never once suspected himself of being a charlatan must be such a shallow mind that his work is probably not worth reading.
~ Leszek Kołakowski
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