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Freedom and Education- True education is more than preparation for a job.- “We remain fearful, anxious, frightened of life. So is it the function of education to help us understand the whole the process of life, or merely to prepare us for a vocation? Education has no meaning unless it helps you understand the vast expanse of life with all its subtleties, extraordinary beauty, sorrows and joys. You may earn degrees and have a very good job, but then what?”- “Isn’t the true function of education to cultivate in you the intelligence which will try to find the answers to life’s problems? Intelligence is the capacity to think freely, without fear or formula, so you begin to discover for yourself what’s real and true; but if you’re frightened you’ll never be intelligent.”- “Living safely generally means living in imitation and therefore fear. To create an atmosphere in which there is no fear requires a great deal of thinking.” - Function of education is to eradicate the fear that destroys human thought, relationships and love. The Problem of FreedomWe are condemned to be free, were always obliged to make some kind of choice.- Even if I can’t choose my circumstance, I can choose attitude I take and response I make in light of it- Order both constricts and creates freedom. - Freedom also requires resources- Redundant Freedom = too many rules- Virtue of Constraint = with constraint comes freedom - Culture is a series of constraints that enable people to exist and survive together Cognitive Choices- We have no choice but to choose. Choose what is handed to us as “this is the way it is” or question our culture’s meanings to see if that is really in our best interest. - The moment we want to be something we are no longer free, we begin to embody whatever we want Facets of FreedomAutonomy: freedom from others, independence of our judgment Agency: our ability to discern alternatives, evaluate choices and the will to choose- Without bias from internal or external sources Choice: a range of alternativesResources: means to actualize choice- Freedom involves the range of alternatives (choices), the ability to discern, evaluate them, independently, and want to choose among them (agency), and then independence and freedom to choose among the range of alternatives we desire (autonomy). 2 ways people can exercise their freedom when faced with constraints:1. Exit: the ability to withdraw - stop supporting company, leave job with bad environment, divorce from bad marriage2. Voice: making your will know- Taking action in managing one’s affairs. Protests, voting, holding public office“Freedom to” (more liberal)- Freedom to do something you’ve never done before- Education, income, upbringing grant people choices“Freedom from” (more conservative)- Freedom from crime so you need laws- Freedom from interferenceOf Dogs and People- Dogs communicate with Signals: universal and unchanged meaning, stands for one thing only- People use Signs: agreed upon, open to change, may have more then one meaning, depends on what people decide it means. Signs allow for experience of the past and futureTime-binding: taking past experiences to make something that did not exist before, use to evolve- How language gives us a past- Social ConstructionismThat-it-is = nonlinguistic, physical hereWhat-it-is = linguistic, culturally created, arbitrary, what we call it determines what we plan to do withit- "We do not live in the world of things, we live in the world of the meaning of things." - A culture, whatever its language is a way of minding the world. One doesn't learn from one's experiences. One learns from one's interpretations of ones experiences.- Mind = how we see, understand, make sense of something, not something you have, something you do with language/culture.- Mind isn’t something just inside your head, it’s part of your language environment, your culture.- Unlike thinking where your back in your head reflecting- Naming = Social Constructionism - Greatest freedom is defining things on your own terms, but there are consequences.- Every definition of anything contains the agenda and objectives of some group of people- Those people who can use language to explain and persuade are the one's whose view of the world becomes "the way it is". (Manipulate, control)Price of Human Communication- Knowledge of death, so we are driven to live meaningful lives to the fullest1. Cognitivism- Brain maps reality- Backed by modern philosophies of mind and reality.- For modernist, science, tech, math, and sound logic are the tools to understand and improve life- Life made meaningful by solving the problems that keep us from living out life's potentials- Searching for unchanged, reliable and universal patterns- Emotion and experience are unreliable because they are inconsistent.- To the extent that we understand the patterns of the Universe and of ourselves, we will live longer lives of quality experience- Requires measurable, empirical, objective evidence- Separates reality "out there" from the human mind "in the head."- To understand how the mind maps reality looks for what kind of behavior leads to positive and negative conflicts, more effective ways to persuade, celebrate, and comfort.- Human behavior caused by things like locus of control, authoritarian personalities, attachment patterns. People do not really choose their responses in life- Focus is on the cognitive schema or personal construct.Personal Construct: how do I see people? How complexly? Our mental maps- Lumping people together = lack of complexSchemas: ways to categorize things in certain categoriesLocus of Control: do I feel in control of my life or do I feel something else does?Attachment Patterns: how much can you rely on caregiver as child? Predicts what happens as adult* Human beings will enjoy greater freedom and security (aka quality of life) in relation to the precisionthat they can map the world around them, their own minds, their cultures, and relationships2. Existentialism- Meaning of life is found in one’s choices. Not determined by anything outside of an individuals actions and choices. - The human life is understood as a structure of concerns. - Human-being at its most fundamental is found in the concerns one has and the care one takes. - It is action rather than thinking that make life meaningful. - We are condemned to be free, to choice. Even if no choice of situation, still choice of attitude. - A meaningful


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