Mary Catherine Bateson — Living as an Improvisational Art
On Being with Krista Tippett
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The Metaphor of Home Making - What Kind of World Can We Build for Our Children?
I'm very interested in the question of how social change happens, how human change happens. One of the things that biologists have said about human beings is that we retain many of our infant characteristics throughout our lives. Ah, and in a sense, human beings remain childlike. They're open to new learning, and even very deep learning that changes your personality really right through the life cycle are human beings remain playful. And play is a very important part of learning and experimental. Most other species, they figure out how to be rabbit or a chicken or an owl or a fish,. That's what they do for the rest of their life. So learning is us. Yes....
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