Saturday, March 22, 2008

That was the word in Yenan, China, July 1937

I don't often find myself quoting the Great Helmsman, but as I read what's going on politically west of here, and as I examine how technology transforms pedagogy, something Mao Zedong said is particularly apt:

If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself.... If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.

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