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Selected
WISDOM PAGE Resources
for Independent Study and Home Schooling |
Tier 3: Going Deeper
WHAT WISDOM IS
| An overview of this prominent wisdom researcher's view of wisdom as an integration of congnitive, reflective, and affective personality characteristics. | Monika Ardelt's Model of Wisdom |
| An introduction to the concept of collective wisdom, and some of the people and organizations currently involved with it. | A Brief Introduction to Collective Wisdom |
| In this streaming video, Bill Moyers Interviews Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot See what this Harvard-based adult educator has to say about living the 50-to-75 year period of life to the fullest. | Bill Moyers interviews Sarah Lawrence-Lightfoot — Video |
WHY WE NEED WISDOM
| A few thoughts on the subject by Copthorne Macdonald | Flaws in Human Mentality |
HOW WISDOM IS DEVELOPED
| From Chapter 8 of Copthorne Macdonald's book Toward Wisdom. | |
| This discussion of practices that help one see in a nondual way and identify with Being is from Chapter 9 of Copthorne Macdonald's book Toward Wisdom. | |
| Comments on this technique for developing wide-angle, open-to-everything attentiveness from Copthorne Macdonald's book Toward Wisdom, plus info on the currently available CDs. | About Open Focus™ |
| Review of The Open-Focus Brain by Les Femhi and Jim Robbins. Reviewer Copthorne Macdonald feels that this book and the CD that comes with it provide a powerful introduction to attentiveness practice. | Review of The Open Focus Brain |
| Nonduality.com is a rich compendium of resources to help us comprehend oneness, not-two — the nondual nature of reality. | Nonduality.com |
| Jill Bolte Taylor is a Harvard neuroscientist who had a massive left-hemisphere stroke. In the two videos at the right she explains how the stroke left her in a state of right-brain facilitated bliss, and how she struggled for 8 years to regain the use of her left brain hemisphere. |
CREATING WISE SOCIETIES
| The possibility of creating a wisdom-based, wisdom-fostering society is discussed in this excerpt from Chapter 13 of Copthorne Macdonald's book Toward Wisdom. | |
| "Doing What Needs To Be Done" is Chapter 15 of Copthorne Macdonald's book Matters of Consequence. It is in PDF format and requires Adobe Acrobat Reader. | Doing What Needs to Be Done |
| In this streaming audio Living Dialogues episode, Duncan Campbell and Paul Ray discuss Paul's thoughts about creating.a wise, caring, global culture. | Co-Creating a New Wisdom Culture — Audio |
EDUCATION FOR WISDOM
| This is a stimulating and enlightening essay by historian Walter G. Moss on the educational ideas of E.F. Schumacher (1911-1977) who thought that "more education can help us only if it produces more wisdom." | E.F. Schumacher on Wisdom and Education |
| This is an article by noted wisdom researcher Robert Sternberg that originally appeared in The Chronicle of Higher Education. | It's Not What You Know, but How You Use It: Teaching for Wisdom |
| Excerpts from the NY Times article "In the Classroom, a New Focus on Quieting the Mind." Plus links to online organizations and resources that address the issue. | Mindfulness Training in Education |
| Supporting the growing number of educators who see "mindfulness training as a foundation for education," this site is a rich source of resources on the subject. | Association for Mindfulness in Education |
| A text (with slides) rendering of Copthorne Macdonald's “Thomas P. Johnson Distinguished Visiting Scholar” address at Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida. | WISDOM: The Highest Aim of Life and Higher Education |
| This is a doctoral dissertation by Anne Adams concerning education for wisdom — integral education — education that purposefully develops and integrates the physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual intelligences. | Education: From Conception to Graduation – A Systematic Integral Approach |
WISDOM RESEARCH
| "Overview of Prior Research on Wisdom" is a brief but informative excerpt from an article by University of Virginia professor David Mick. | Overview of Prior Research on Wisdom |
| "The Scientific Approach of Wisdom," a doctoral dissertation by Richard Hawley Trowbridge, is the complete dissertation in Microsoft Word format — a comprehensive review of the scholarly research on wisdom from 1980 to 2005, and a useful overview of the history of wisdom. | The Scientific Approach of Wisdom |
