March 1: #MoronDay
#JamesHarveyRobinson on moron as "a person who doesn't think."
> It was so violent that it overwhelmed the measuring instruments, indicating that the bomb was much more powerful than scientists had anticipated...The #AtomicEnergyCommission announced this was the first in a series of tests to be carried out in the area... the #Enewetak weapon forced together nuclei of hydrogen to unleash an even greater destructive force.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/1/newsid_2781000/2781419.stm
#NoNukes #MarshallIslands

> In 1913 (Gandhi’s last year in South Africa), the boy who had to sit on a gunnysack on his classroom floor was admitted to Columbia University in New York. It was while he was there, under the tutelage of John Dewey (of ‘Deweyan liberalism’ fame), #EdwinSeligman, #JamesShotwell, #JamesHarveyRobinson and A.A. Goldenweiser, that he wrote his original, path-breaking paper on caste, “#CastesInIndia: Their Mechanism, Genesis and Development”
#ArundhatiRoy on #Ambedkar's teachers in the #USA

> We do not think enough about thinking, and much of our confusion is the result of current illusions in regard to it.

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8077
#JamesHarveyRobinson #FourKindOfThinking in #TheMindInTheMaking 1921

> I neglect God and His angels for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door. I talk on in the same posture of praying, eyes lifted up, knees bowed down, as though I prayed... a noise in mine ear, a light in mine eye, an anything, a nothing, a fancy, a chimera in my brain troubles me in my prayer." From The Art of Letters, too
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8077
#JamesHarveyRobinson #RobertLynd #JohnDonne #distraction #prayer #TowardLiberalEducation #FreedomLearning