"Behaviour is falling down the steps,
Activity is walking up the steps."

#IARichards quoting somebody else, maybe CKOgden.

All the AISalami discussion has me thinking it doesn't matter how complicated the steps are, there is no choice of response involved. Without birth and living and death in the real organic world, we should put special quotes, "t" for "terminology" quotes around "learning" and "understading" and even "language" when talking about machine-generated stuff.

This article will help emphasize The Thumb is a special thing in English, it's not just any finger like the ring finger 薬指 or pointer finger 人差し指 (people stabbing finger!?!?!笑) it #TheThumb not thrown in with the other Yubi指 fingers like the #親指 Parent Finger. Thanks to the Fediverse I can stress the uniqueness of the thumb with #TheOnion along with the Panda.

https://www.theonion.com/dolphins-evolve-opposable-thumbs-1819565718

/HT @flexghost
#BeginningEnglish #LearningAThe #EP #EnglishThroughPictures #IARichards #Japanese #Fingers

I made a worksheet page to drill "a" and "the" and a background reading page to stress a special view of the thumb. Page 10 of English Through Pictures(Richards and Gibson, 1945) is hard for veteran Japanese teachers. Maybe because "the thumb" is nothing special in their native language so it's not as much a help as it should be for learning "the" even after decades of experience.
https://bsmall2.codeberg.page/pages/opposable-thumb/EP1-p10-s4-hand-thumb.html
https://bsmall2.codeberg.page/pages/C3-a-hand-the-thumb/sentences.html
#EPGDM #EnglishThroughPictures #IaRichards

I teach English with the #GradedDirectMethod of #IARichards. He was developing a #PictorialNotation for leaning foreign languages with his #LanguageThroughPictures books starting with #EnglishThroughPictures in 1945. Learners can narrate sequences of their drawings with English sentences using 3 tenses of take, put, and give combined with off, on, to, in, and from. These basic constructs are widely useful. There must be an equivalent approach to learn programming.
https://www.gdm-japan.net/introduction/gdm-history/

> ベーシック・イングリッシュは850語の制限単語で, ほとんどすべてのことをいえる英語のシステムです
https://www.gdm-japan.net/introduction/about-basic-english/
#GDM #CKOgden #IARichards #OgdensBasicEnglish

> We should address ourselves to those faculties in a child’s mind, which..first admit of cultivation.. , the memory and the imagination. The comparing power, the judgment.. ought not to be forcibly excited, as.. in the modern systems of education.. only lead to selfish views, debtor and #creditor principles of #virtue, and an inflated sense of merit...
https://www.circeinstitute.org/2011/11/coleridge-the-education-of-children
#Coleridge #OnEducation and #Debt from #IARichards's #ThePortableColeridge #Education

> 養老： 一番怖いのは、人間には「できることをやってしまう」という、悪い癖があることです。「できることをやらない」という成熟に達することが、本当に難しい。子育てだってそう。つい手伝いたくなるけれど、親は、やらずに見守ることが大切なのです。
#養老 #養老 #ニールポストマン #テクノポリー #カミュー #Limit #Nemesis
> 佐野： 私の場合は、外部からの情報や学びを吸収したあと、自分の考えだけで反芻する時間をつくっています。自分だけのために自由に考えを書いている日記を読み返したり、瞑想したり。外部をいったん遮断して、自分がどこにいて何をしているかを客観的に捉え、流されないようにしています。
#佐野めぐみ #反芻 #イリイチ #SingingLines #TextAndUniversity #IaR #IaRichards #VacantTime is needed for learning language...
https://www.vogue.co.jp/lifestyle/interview/2019-03-15/takeshi-yoro/megumi-sano

'.. You dismiss the day of calamity and bring near a reign of violence. You lie on beds inlaid with ivory, and lounge upon your couches. You dine on lambs from the flock and calves from the stall.. '
https://biblehub.com/amos/6-4.htm
I saw good commentary on #AmosProphet as criticizing #sycophant #intellectuals #御用学者. #IARichards said #Amos should be the patron saint of linguistics, rhetoric, metaphor, or education..

'..Amos has said: ‘Jeroboam will die by the sword, and Israel will surely go into exile, away from their homeland.’ ” And Amaziah.. “Go away, you seer! Flee to the land of Judah; earn your bread there and do your prophesying there. But never prophesy at Bethel again, because it is the sanctuary of the king and the temple of the kingdom.” '
https://biblehub.com/amos/7-12.htm
#NoamChomsky and #IARichards mention Amos, #Chomsky said #Prophet is an odd transation, I guess they were #Poets or #teachers

「Nations and Peace」
1000語ぐらいの英語の単語だけを使って、世平を平和にできるシテムを考えるための本です。 「絵で見る英語」というクラシックの教科書(地味だけどクラシックだから!)や #GDM( #段階的直接法創造したリチャーズは戦争によって人類が絶滅しないようにこの本を作ったと思う。 著作権が切れただろうけど、Archive.orgで自由にダウンロードできる。UkraineやYemenなどなどの戦争を考えるために役立つかもしれない。 ロシアがやったら悪いけど、米国やフランスやイギリスなど人の港をのってとったり(ジブチと日本の海外軍基地!？!？)、人を空爆したりし て もいいことないでしょう。 あいうことだれがやってもだめだろう。
UN ---> UP
#UnitedNations ---> #UnitedPeoples
https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.74399
#IaRichards #IAR #UnitedWorldFederalists #ArchiveOrg

The war in #Ukraine got me to read #HannahArendt on #Imperialism (the #NationStateSystem ) and pay attention to the war in #Yemen and all the #MilitaryBases in #Djibouti ... All of that brought to mind a book, in #OgdensBasicEnglish by someone who was thought to be the greatest teacher of the 20th century...
https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.74399
#NationsAndPeace #IARichards #IAR #UnitedWorldFederalists #ArchiveOrg

I have to slow down and see if I've read the whole book, but he mentions how unlucky, in English, the initials #UN are in another essay. In this book #IARichards argues for an #UP , #UnitedPeoples and he does while only using a thousand or so different words... When I first discovered this book at #ArchiveOrg I searched for the #UnitedWorldFederalists and remembered a lot of interesting people, writers and artists were involved. I can't remember if #KurtVonnegut was with the organization or not

These lines from Bullshit Jobs keep coming to mind since I started enjoying #libgen this week. It's overwhelming to finally get into old books I've seen mentioned by #LewisMumford and #IARichards, and then again by #TheodoreRoszak and #FrijofCapra So now I #AmReading #IrvingBabbit #DemocracyAndLeadership along with #LLHenderson #FitnessOfTheEnvironment . It might be possible to go back and forth #FromSatoriToSiliconValley
https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=283BFD9787C8BEA95CF34D9512A831FE

A Start Page search fro the Japanese translation of a #MikeDavis interview on #TomDispatch turned up a writing I did about the #EnglishThroughPictures books. I wish I could find that org-file again, but I've been thinking of recreating the quote and source pointers with #racket 's #scribble for a while. But it was hard for me to focus on writing while using scribble. https://www.gdm-japan.net/uploads/yearbooks/yearbook_68.pdf
#GDM #IaRichards #LiberalEducation #FreedomLearning #humanities

"The room was totally dark. The undergraduates were thereby prevented from doing their calculus homework, writing each other notes, or indeed taking notes on what Richards said, all admirable results. On a screen up front, high and very large, were projected, by a slide projector, the words of a poem—always, without exception, a great poem. (Richards never condescended to students.)"
https://bostonreview.net/articles/helen-vendler-i-richards-harvard/

#HelenVedler on #IaRichards #slideshow and #learning #poetry

> Richards divided the class into three groups. Each group was asked to write a paragraph describing language. However, Richards provided each group with its first sentence.
Group A had to begin with “Language is like a tree”;
Group B with
“Language is like a river”;
Group C with “
Language is like a building.”... Our discussion centered on how metaphors control what we say, and to what extent what we say controls what we see. #NeilPostman #Technopoly with #IaRichards on #metaphor #language

> ... the purposive aspect of definitions. We want to do something and a definition is a means of doing it. If we want certain results, then we must use certain...definitions... But no definition has any authority apart from a purpose, or to bar us from other purposes. And yet they endlessly do so... we are often deprived of very useful thoughts merely because the words which might express them are being temporarily preempted by other meanings? #iarichards quoted by #NeilPostman in #Technopoly

> Of course, there are plenty of ... places... from which profound ideas about language may come. The work of I. A. Richards (generally) and what he says, specifically, on definition and metaphor are good introductions to language as world-maker. On definition (from his #InterpretationinTeaching )
#NeilPostman in #TheEndOfEducation about #language recommends #iar #IaRichards on #definion and #metaphor

> Cambridge anthropology professor Caroline Humphrey concludes, “No example of a barter economy, pure and simple, has ever been described, let alone the emergence from it of money; all available ethnography suggests that there never has been such a thing”
- https://davidgraeber.org/articles/on-the-invention-of-money-notes-on-sex-adventure-monomaniacal-sociopathy-and-the-true-function-of-economics/
#EP3 #barter #money #Currency #DavidGraeber #IaR #IaRichards #EP3error #WrongMyth #CarolineHumphrey

> This little book is an example of the free use of Basic Eng-
lish.

> Is another step possible which would put the defense of all
countries in the hands of the PEOPLES of the earth?
> Can we make the UN into a UP— a United Peoples’ Govern-
ment?
> Can we put defense in the hands of a World Govern-
ment responsible to and representative of the PEOPLES..

- https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.74399

#IaR #IaRichards #NationsAndPeace #UnitedPeoples #UnitedNations #BasicEnglish #CKOgden