This post is written for Indispire Edition 118: #Values . It is specifically about three “immensely necessary skilful values” that the emerging generation should possess. 1. Thinking Skills Serious thinking seems to have gone to some shopping mall and got lost there. It must be fiddling with the keypad of some smartphone trying to send its selfie picture to everybody in the contact list on half a dozen social network sites where egos go on rollercoaster rides at breakneck speeds. Let it come back home and sit down coolly with a copy of Will Durant’s Story of Philosophy or Jennifer Michael Hecht’s Doubt: a history . Let it hobnob with the insane Nietzsche and the statesmanly Jefferson. Let it discover the bloom that blushes in the desert for no one in particular. Let it bathe in the springs of classical literature. Let it learn to listen to the symphony of the planets. 2. Scientific Temper There are a lot of...
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