Education doesn’t happen on paper. It happens between people. | Elizabeth Alexander

*Note: This is a republish of a video that was originally posted yesterday; the previous version contained a typo that has been corrected.* Read more at BigThink.com: Follow Big Think here: YouTube: http://goo.gl/CPTsV5 Facebook: https://ift.tt/1qJMX5g Twitter: https://twitter.com/bigthink If you look at great works of literature I always thought about how in literature in art and culture there are tools for living. And I think that one of the tools for living that you find in wonderful works of literature is that: human beings are complicated and flawed. Human beings are not all one way. Human beings are best understood in their complexity. And if only we had more of that in our day to day. I’ve been thinking a lot about what it means to be an excellent educator, now that for the first time in my really most of my adult life—I was a journalist for a minute but I’ve been a teacher, and now—that’s not my job anymore. So I’ve been thinking about what are the transferrable properties, and what are the ways that in our communities we think about mentorship, we think about empowerment, we think about sharing, not just to impose knowledge but rather to share knowledge in a dynamic way that again is about the self-empowerment that comes from knowledge, from having an expanded mind, for having sharper tools, for being able to evaluate contradiction and hold contradiction aloft sometimes? I think a good learning environment has to have, I think, the tenet that brave failure is preferable to timid success. By which I mean I think our minds are great and powerful things, and I think that to have courage inform our thinking and to be able to go out perhaps past where we may be comfortable, to go into the unknown between human beings and see where that takes us, to not stay safe in our own position but to make it safe for other people to be able to share—I think that’s where we get to new ideas. I think that’s where we get to brave ideas. I think that’s where we get to solutions that we might not otherwise have found. So fostering an environment that where people can be brave and where ideas don’t always have to be pristine, I think, is very important.

The evolution of homosexuality: A new theory | Richard Prum

Read more at BigThink.com: Follow Big Think here: YouTube: http://goo.gl/CPTsV5 Facebook: https://ift.tt/1qJMX5g Twitter: https://twitter.com/bigthink Richard Prum: Diversity in sexual attraction found in people is a fundamental aspect of human biology, yet it’s actually been poorly described or poorly theorized in previous evolutionary biology. I don’t know if people know so much about sociobiology specifically, but one way to get at that might be to talk about the definition of fitness and how that lead to certain views about the inevitability of adaptation as a strong force; The beauty happens theory is the idea that ornament evolves merely because it’s attractive or beautiful. The beauty happens idea is contrasted with the more popular theory that comes from Alfred Russell Wallace about the evolution of ornament as a kind of practical indicator of mate quality. The aesthetic view of evolution provides some really interesting insights into the evolution of human sexuality, and in particular human sexual diversity. So individuals that are attracted to the same sex are frequently imagined to evolve because they provide help to their kin, that is, if there are some people in any social group that are non-reproductive because of their sexual preferences then they will be helping with raising of their nieces and nephews. This is sort of the “helpful uncle” hypothesis. The problem with that idea is that it should actually lead to a kind of asexual phenotype or an asexual behavior; it doesn’t actually describe the evolution of sexual attraction itself. Well the aesthetic view of evolution proposes that we should put subjective experience—that is, the nature of animal and human desire—at the center of our scientific explanation. So in order to explain same sex attraction in people we need to actually ask: how could same sex attraction actually evolve? Well, in the book I propose that human same sex attraction evolved specifically because it contributed to female sexual autonomy or to the freedom of choice. What I mean by that is that in the case of female/female sexual relationships they could contribute to female alliances that could protect females from sexual coercion by male hierarchical groups. At the same time I propose that male/male sexual attraction could have evolved because any social situation in which males have multiple sexual outlets would have contributed to female freedom to move among individuals in that social system and to avoid coercion and sexual violence. This is a new aesthetic theory of the evolution of same-sex behavior in people, and I think it’s one that deserves really serious consideration as we move forward.

Education doesn’t happen on paper. It happens between people. | Elizabeth Alexander

Read more at BigThink.com: Follow Big Think here: YouTube: http://goo.gl/CPTsV5 Facebook: https://ift.tt/1qJMX5g Twitter: https://twitter.com/bigthink Elizabeth Alexander: If you look at great works of literature I always thought about how in literature in art and culture there are tools for living. And I think that one of the tools for living that you find in wonderful works of literature is that: human beings are complicated and flawed. Human beings are not all one way. Human beings are best understood in their complexity. And if only we had more of that in our day to day. I’ve been thinking a lot about what it means to be an excellent educator, now that for the first time in my really most of my adult life—I was a journalist for a minute but I’ve been a teacher, and now—that’s not my job anymore. So I’ve been thinking about what are the transferrable properties, and what are the ways that in our communities we think about mentorship, we think about empowerment, we think about sharing, not just to impose knowledge but rather to share knowledge in a dynamic way that again is about the self-empowerment that comes from knowledge, from having an expanded mind, for having sharper tools, for being able to evaluate contradiction and hold contradiction aloft sometimes? I think a good learning environment has to have, I think, the tenet that brave failure is preferable to timid success. By which I mean I think our minds are great and powerful things, and I think that to have courage inform our thinking and to be able to go out perhaps past where we may be comfortable, to go into the unknown between human beings and see where that takes us, to not stay safe in our own position but to make it safe for other people to be able to share—I think that’s where we get to new ideas. I think that’s where we get to brave ideas. I think that’s where we get to solutions that we might not otherwise have found. So fostering an environment that where people can be brave and where ideas don’t always have to be pristine, I think, is very important.

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