Are you sure you know everything about these little blighters?
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Imagine...never being duped again! Bridging the sublime to the ridiculous, the high brow to the low brow, and the believable to the unbelievable. If you are interested in the difference between what is 'given' and what is 'given off', the signifier and the signified, and the content and the meaning then read on...
Are you sure you know everything about these little blighters?
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Is believing something the same as knowing something?
Is That The Truth? a lighter look at a heavy subject.
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It's amazing what people will believe. Earlier this week, there was a section on BBC Radio 1 about what people had believed because of their parents telling them when they were children. Apparently a common myth is that Sir Walter Raleigh introduced patatos to Britain.
This made me think about opportune moments of Gullibility. When you're a child, you are learning and you don't know any better. So when you're learning, your susseptable and when you have no idea on the subject you can only believe what you are told.
I think you've made a crucial point Rednose. When we are innocent and vulnerable we can be taken for a ride. It also links to stuff I'm on with this week to do with leadership. (see Leaderswedeserve blog in blog roll) Murray and Tudor in their ace book mention about 'learner dependency' that state where learners 'defer' unduly to what they regard as authority on a topic.
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