The Word that Enriches

Abraham Lincoln did not have the education to read the King James Bible when he started doing so, and its language wasn't the language he and his ...

False Assumptions

"All generalizations are false, including this one," yet we keep making them. We create images--graven ones that can't be changed; we dismiss ...

Time to Pray

We have had instruction until we are hardened; it is now time for us to pray.

Intelligence vs. Experience

The error of youth is to believe that intelligence is a substitute for experience, while the error of age is to believe that experience is a substitute ...

Borrowed Brains

I use not only all the brains I have, but all I can borrow.

Information Overload

[T]he very amount of information that computers make available threatens us with cognitive overload: overwhelmed with facts, people tend to mistake data ...

Identity and the Census

In "A Portrait of America," Newsweek (1/17/83) poked some fun at the national census:

"Give your name and age and business. Is your husband ...

Good Thinking

The greatest mistake of education has been to assume that intelligent people are automatically good thinkers. High intelligence does not ensure effective ...

Heart over Mind

I look upon myself as a dull person. I take more time than others in understanding some things. But I do not care. There is a limit to man's progress ...