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The whole-person ideas which produce a Leonardo have become eclipsed by the needs of reductionist science and technology, by the 19thC. cult of 'the genius', by the market-system's division between 'producer' and 'consumer'; but those ideas are still available to us today, and are the tools we need in producing positive outcomes from the problems facing us in the modern world.
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Each of us is many-sided: we have a creative side and an analytical side, a rational side and an irrational side, a feeling side and a thinking side, an adult side and a child side, a male side and a female side.
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Often one of these sides becomes dominant, while the others lie dormant and remain unnoticed: but we can create situations where they become integrated and honoured, their needs recognised on equal terms: in situations like that each of us can feel good about what we do: we can feel valued by the people around us: we can feel capable of managing the things that face us: we can feel good about who we are.
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Of course there are specific skills you need to be able to do specific things: but the difference between "I can!" and "I can't" is one of attitude and context much more than it is one of inborn talent.
Learning is doing: and doing is learning; we're learning all the time - we can chose to discover new ways in which our prejudices were right, our fears justified: or we can chose to face our fears, to learn new things, to develop and grow.
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Here is a wealth of pedagogical and cultural material which demonstrates how these ideas and ideals work in practice today.
You may find
A couple of hundred web-sites are presented here, grouped both by topic, and by date order, latest first.
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