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Oct242015
Stages of Wisdom
Saturday, October 24, 2015 at 07:50PM 
David Brooks, in a NYT article, sketched out the stages of becoming wise:
1. Basic Factual Acquisition - concrete, core knowledge.
2. Pattern Formation - linking facts in meaningful ways.
3. Mental Reformation - learning a new way of 'seeing'.
4. Now, information is knowledge!
5. Wisdom dawns when years of knowledge are exposed to the rigors of reality.
While he applauds adding 'soft' skills -- such as working in teams, developing self-confidence and demonstrating grit -- to school curriculums, Brooks cautions that we can't leap over the foundation steps. (Schools for wisdom, reprinted in the Record-Journal - 10/19/15)
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