Tag Archives: prejudices

6
Feb

Learning is a question of attitude

Reading is ‘the most important thing that’s happened to me in my life,’ said Mario Vargas Llosa in his Nobel Prize acceptance speech, since it helped him to ‘transform dreams into life and life into dreams’.

Following on from the words of the great writer, reading sets us on the path of learning, and learning leads us towards freedom as a human being. For this very reason, reading has been considered a dangerous activity throughout history, and still is by many regimes who try to suppress it by means of censorship. (more…)

7
May

The ladder of inference, or how misunderstandings arise

You happen to walk past a colleague on the street, you say hello but he doesn’t answer.  Your first reaction is to feel slighted and think that he has deliberately ignored you. You then try to explain what’s happened: (more…)