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...told her that that wasn't too cool, that I thought the revolution or whatever it was that was going on all around us had to offer something more than an eye for an eye, that it was time we outgrew violence, and that peace had to start with "us" or else the revolution would just be trading one set of pigs for another, one fucking system with no room for deviants for another...
Piaget himself is a lapsed biologist who never outgrew his fascination with the orderly growth of organisms. Born in Neuchâtel, Switzerland, he was a child prodigy who published important papers on mollusks before he was out of high school, later became "haunted by the idea of discovering a sort of embryology of intelligence." In 1920 he went to work in the Paris laboratory of Psychologist Théodore Simon, a co-developer with Alfred Binet of the first successful IQ test. Poring over the "wrong" answers that children regularly gave on the tests, Piaget was surprised...
...series, Passant serves in a philosophical role (familiar in conventional success stories) as "the better man" whom the hero admired in youth and never quite outgrew or forgot. At the cost of his own career Passant helped struggling young people around him (including Eliot), saving them from stagnation by creating an intellectual coterie. He also preached freedom and self-expression-against the narrow restraints of provincial England in the late 1920s. Eliot's attitude toward Passant in the first book became fondly equivocal, for he served as a continual reminder that certain kinds of selflessness, though admirable, are self...
During the last four years King's tactics wore less well than his moral vision. The movement outgrew the original focus of his energy on the South. King's year of urban organizing in Chicago was a chronicle of unproductive frustrations. The poor peoples' march on Washington he was planning for this Spring was tactically a last stand--a test of whether he had become an anachronism as a Black leader...
...were caught in a logical inconsistency whereby they accepted infinite perfectability for themselves, but denied that it applied to Africans. There had been a total reversal of roles: the British, once optimistic about their own capabilities, were forced to take a pessimistic view towards African potential, while the Africans outgrew their sense of inferiority and were now optimistic about the possibilities of Pan-African growth. For all his vague historical generalizations, Armah has come to some original conclusions about the origins of Pan-Africanism...