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But never forget … our mission is to recognize contraries for what they are: first of all as contraries, but then as opposite poles of a unity.—Herman Hesse
Most of us are sane. Saddam Hussein did not plead insanity when he was accused of crimes. Many consider Saddam Hussein and Adolf Hitler to have been insane. Some terrorists are insane and pose a problem for the sane. “The great end of life is not knowledge but action,” said Thomas Henry Huxley. Learning that some inaction may be a kind of action may help educate.
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Pritscher, C.P. (2011). Sane/Insane Schooling. In: Pritscher, C.P. (eds) Brains Inventing Themselves. Transgressions: Cultural Studies and Education, vol 78. SensePublishers. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-708-0_12
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