mr. Brian Anson, France
COME BACK CONFUCIOUS
THE PHILOSOPHY.
Some day I must set it all down as logicaly as I can Socrates, Liebnitz and Bergson - their words will be crucial, but first Confucious.
'The secret of wisdom is to know what you do not know'
The acknowledgement of our ignorance can be liberating. It may be assumed that Galileo wan overjoyed at his discovery, but it could be eqally asumed that he was stunned by what he had beleived for so long - the falsehood he had believed. His discovery set him free. He was no longer enslaved by false beliefs.
TAKE CITIES.
The student emerges from the school of ARCHITECTURE: PLANNING: URBANISM after several years of intensive study. S/he is still very young. Such a person may not have even experienced the city at all - it is certanly unlikely that s/he has ecperienced the inner-city with all its complex social, economic an environmental problems. Yet this graduate now holds a piece of paper proclaiming that s/he is an EXPERT! Is this not a frightening prospect. By the year 2000 sixty per cent of humanity will live in cities, and the remaining 40% will be dependent upon them. Is it not essential for us to look carefully into the background - the TRAINING, the EDUCATING of these so-called EXPERTS?
SOCRATES wrote:
'I am the wisest man in Athens... because I know nothing'
If only the merging student had such humility - and WISDOM!