#instrumentalism

The 'polymath' had already died out by the close of the eighteenth century, and in the following century intensive education replaced extensive, so that by the end of it the specialist had evolved. The consequence is that today everyone is a mere technician, even the artist... ↗

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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#pedagogy #education

It is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail. ↗

— Abraham Harold Maslow

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#instrumentalism #problem-solving #problems

[God] is a kind of perpetual critique of instrumental reason. ↗

— Terry Eagleton

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#instrumentalism #faith