I watched Don Levine's interview. It was excellent. Among other things, it shifts attention to our own behaviors and attitudes that must change in fundamental ways before we can help to change Ethiopia.
—Dr. Aklog Birru
—Dr. Aklog Birru
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I watched Don Levine's interview. It was excellent. Among other things, it shifts attention to our own behaviors and attitudes that must change in fundamental ways before we can help to change Ethiopia.
—Dr. Aklog Birru
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What is needed for free minds is discipline, discipline which forms the habits which enable the mind to operate well. Nothing better can be said on this subject than the concise statement of John Dewey. "The discipline," he said, "that is identical with trained power is also identical with freedom."
—Robert Maynard Hutchins, 1943 Simmel's approach to the study of society is vulnerable in three respects that a Parsonian critique readily reveals. . . . On the other hand, Parson's approach to the study of society is vulnerable in certain respects that a Simmelian critique readily reveals. . . . Even when it may prove impossible to combine the divergent approaches of the two authors in a single interpretive framework where one is dominant and the other subordinate, the social analyst may benefit from alternating the two perspectives when considering some particular set of phenomena.
—Donald N Levine (1991) 2011 |