Instructors Journal, Volume 1, Issue 2

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U.S. Air Force, Air Training Command., 1963
 

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Page 9 - gainst self-slaughter! O God! O God! How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable Seem to me all the uses of this world! Fie on't! ah, fie! 'tis an unweeded garden, That grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature, Possess it merely.
Page 22 - I keep six honest serving men (They taught me all I knew); Their names are What and Why and When And How and Where and Who.
Page 17 - When Alexander the Great visited Diogenes and asked whether he could do anything for the famed teacher, Diogenes replied, "Only stand out of my light." Perhaps some day we shall know how to heighten creativity. Until then, one of the best things we can do for creative men and women is to stand out of their light. — JOHN W. GARDNER...
Page 18 - All too often we are giving our young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants. We are stuffing their heads with the products of earlier innovation rather than teaching them to innovate. We think of the mind as a storehouse to be filled when we should be thinking of it as an instrument to be used.
Page 18 - For the self-renewing man the development of his own potentialities and the process of self-discovery never end. It is a sad but unarguable fact that most human beings go through their lives only partially aware of the full range of their abilities.
Page 18 - If we indoctrinate the young person in an elaborate set of fixed beliefs, we are insuring his early obsolescence. The alternative is to develop skills, attitudes, habits of mind, and the kinds of knowledge and understanding that will be the instruments of continuous change and growth on the part of the young person. Then we...
Page 15 - The more democratic an organization or a society the more clearly it will reflect the interests of its members. So a democratic group may be particularly susceptible to the rigidifying force of vested interest. Still another reason for the loss of vitality and momentum in a society is a lowered level of motivation. It is not always easy to say why motivation deteriorates. Perhaps people stop believing in the things they once believed in, the things that gave meaning to their efforts. Perhaps they...
Page 15 - A society whose maturing consists simply of acquiring more firmly established ways of doing things is headed for the graveyard — even if it learns to do these things with greater and greater skill. In the ever-renewing society what matures is a system or framework within which continuous innovation, renewal and rebirth can occur.
Page 14 - As a society becomes more concerned with precedent and custom, it comes to care more about how things are done and less about whether they are done. The man who wins acclaim is not the one who "gets things done" but the one who has an ingrained knowledge of the rules and accepted practices. Whether he accomplishes anything is less important than whether he conducts himself in an "appropriate
Page 13 - Is it our turn now?" Rather than debate that overworked topic, I am going to ask another kind of question : Suppose one tried to imagine a society that would be relatively immune to decay— an ever-renewing society. What would it be like? What would be the ingredients that provided the immunity? The skeptic may ask whether any society should last forever, even ours. It is not a crucial question. If longevity were the only virtue of the continuously renewing society, the whole...

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