{"author":"Nel Noddings","author_id":"Nel+Noddings","total_quotes":12,"quotes":[{"text":"[S]cience has contributed a great deal to war and violence, and people well trained in science are sometimes not entirely rational and are even dogmatic. We have to find a way to teach reflectively, not just scientifically.","author":"Nel Noddings","tags":["dogmatism","education","rationality","reflection","responsibility","science","teaching","violence","war"],"id":15898,"author_id":"Nel+Noddings"},{"text":"[W]e would do better to treat terrorists as common criminals, people who have broken the laws recognized by all civil societies. To treat them as soldiers is to increase their power, respectability, and commitment.","author":"Nel Noddings","tags":["crime","discourse","power","terrorism"],"id":57131,"author_id":"Nel+Noddings"},{"text":"We Americans pride ourselves on our freedom to speak, to say what we believe. But of what use is it to speak if only those who already agree with us listen? A first step toward the abolition of war is learning to listen with respect and sympathy.","author":"Nel Noddings","tags":["education","empathy","freedom-of-speech","listening","peace-education","respect"],"id":74044,"author_id":"Nel+Noddings"},{"text":"On the positive side, a strong sense of comradely loyalty triggers genuine affection and friendship. On the negative side, it may strengthen contempt for the lives of opponents and, of course, the loss of a comrade may be followed by even greater brutality in battle.","author":"Nel Noddings","tags":["brutality","comradeship","death","enemy","loss","value-of-life"],"id":89643,"author_id":"Nel+Noddings"},{"text":"It still amazes me that we insist on teaching algebra to all students when only about 20 percent will ever use it and fail to teach anything about parenting when the vast majority of our students will become parents.","author":"Nel Noddings","tags":["curriculum","education","parenting","school","teaching"],"id":146853,"author_id":"Nel+Noddings"},{"text":"Because most of us recognize that we will fight to protect our children, we cannot be absolute pacifists.","author":"Nel Noddings","tags":["children","duty","fight","pacifism","protection"],"id":195810,"author_id":"Nel+Noddings"},{"text":"The spectacle takes us away from our routines. For at least a time, we feel part of something big, colorful, exciting. It is perhaps understandable that civilians are often more enthusiastic during wartime than soldiers who have experienced battle. The soldiers know that war is often boring and dirty as well as terrifying and colorful. Even so, after some years, an old soldier like Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., could brush aside his earlier description of the pain, boredom, and death of war and declare that “its message was divine.” The stench disappears, but the spectacle remains in memory’s eye.","author":"Nel Noddings","tags":["civilian","disgust","enthusiasm","excitement","memory","pain","routine","soldier","suffering","war"],"id":225217,"author_id":"Nel+Noddings"},{"text":"The Great Stone at the center of the Somme memorial has this inscription: “Their name liveth for evermore.” The memorial contains 73,077 names, the names of young men who were robbed of life. Note that we often say that they gave their lives, but of course, this is not true; their lives were taken from them. It is not outrageous to consider the carving of their names and the false promise of “evermore” another act of violence.","author":"Nel Noddings","tags":["death","glorious-dead","high-diction","hypocrisy","killing","memorial","memory","monument","names","soldiers","war"],"id":264939,"author_id":"Nel+Noddings"},{"text":"If the well-being of my loved place depends on the well-being of Earth, I have a good reason for supporting the well-being of your loved place. I have selfish as well as cosmopolitan reasons for preserving the home-places of all human beings. Cosmopolitanism becomes thicker and more potent with this realization.","author":"Nel Noddings","tags":["cosmopolitanism","earth","ecological-cosmopolitanism","ecology","love-of-place"],"id":376615,"author_id":"Nel+Noddings"},{"text":"If spectacle is lacking in everyday life, it may be because we have forgotten where and how to look.","author":"Nel Noddings","tags":["curiosity","environment","nature","perception","routine","sight"],"id":379428,"author_id":"Nel+Noddings"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":12,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}