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Iain McGilchrist, ’We Need to Act’

Rebel Wisdom

CHAPTER

Pushing Back Against Untested Ideas

I think we should start pushing back against untested ideas with profound consequences for our future happiness, sense of being fulfilled human beings. We should not be allowing our children to be indoctrinated into a set of beliefs that are really have been made popular only in the last ten years. They were never part of any thriving culture. And so it's more about pushing back against ideas, and once those ideas become much less important in the public sphere, people will find things that follow out from them on a whole range of issues. i can sometimes say we need to teach children differently. For example, we needt we need to train all children o say that not one of them leaves school without being

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