But it's more important than ever.
To listen and understand; to question and disagree; to treat no proposition as sacred and no objection as impious; to be willing to entertain unpopular ideas and cultivate the habits of an open mind — this is what I was encouraged to do by my teachers at the University of Chicago.
It’s what used to be called a liberal education.
The University of Chicago showed us something else: that every great idea is really just a spectacular disagreement with some other great idea.
Some of the great disagree-rs include:
Galileo and Darwin; Mandela, Havel, and Liu Xiaobo; Rosa Parks and Natan Sharansky.
May we have the courage to disagree with each other without killing each other or collapsing our democracy.
Read the full speech and enjoy the graphic at:
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/09/24/opinion/dying-art-of-disagreement.html?WT.nav=opinion-c-col-right-region&action=click&clickSource=story-heading&emc=edit_ty_20170925&module=opinion-c-col-right-region&nl=opinion-today&nlid=65355496&pgtype=Homepage
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