Tag: learning

The last thing you learned OUGHT always to be to distrust the learning that refuses to be open to change. Some thoughts about Kirill Serebrennikov’s film ‘The Student’.

March 1, 2026

The last thing you learned OUGHT always to be to distrust the learning that refuses to be open to change. Some thoughts about Kirill Serebrennikov’s film The Student. What if you discovered that every truth you will; ever need, sufficient to contest any other truth, except its own contradictions from the same source, was in … More The last thing you learned OUGHT always to be to distrust the learning that refuses to be open to change. Some thoughts about Kirill Serebrennikov’s film ‘The Student’.

Keeping the flame alive: The demise of the Socratic idea of learning?

December 16, 2025

According to Socrates, at least as adherents of his definition of learning argue, learning is only tangentially about the acquisition of objects of learning – call them what you will, but here ‘skills and lessons‘ – that are the emergent by-products of a process that is never completed. Hence we ‘kindle the flame of learning’, … More Keeping the flame alive: The demise of the Socratic idea of learning?

If pride comes before a fall, then admire the ‘fallen’ who remain proud of what is to be learned in the process.

October 11, 2025

Whatever the meme above was meant to signify in its original use, it speaks volumes about the ethical nature of pride as mode of self-congratulation. Pride is an error only when divorced from an object in which to be proud, when it refers not to some achievement in actual time and space that will lose … More If pride comes before a fall, then admire the ‘fallen’ who remain proud of what is to be learned in the process.