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Truth, Beauty, and Goodness Reframed: Educating for the Virtues in the Age of Truthiness and Twitter QUOTES

Truth, Beauty, and Goodness Reframed: Educating for the Virtues in the Age of Truthiness and Twitter QUOTES

1 " Both science and history are moving targets. Scholars in the twenty-first century are much more aware than those of earlier generations that scientists operate under the influence of powerful metaphors (science as exploration, discovery, documentation, thrust and counterthrust), and that both the scope and the tools of history undergo continual changes. "

― Howard Gardner , Truth, Beauty, and Goodness Reframed: Educating for the Virtues in the Age of Truthiness and Twitter

2 " given that many items reported by the “establishment press” turn out to be false, and that the same establishment press misses many important stories altogether, why should we attribute any special status to journalists? Why should we hallow, or expect, journalistic truths? "

― Howard Gardner , Truth, Beauty, and Goodness Reframed: Educating for the Virtues in the Age of Truthiness and Twitter

3 " at a time when ethical lapses and blatant crimes pervade the political and economic and clerical landscapes (and has there ever been a time when, or a place where, such malfeasance was absent?), well-trained investigative journalists are essential for the survival of democratic institutions. "

― Howard Gardner , Truth, Beauty, and Goodness Reframed: Educating for the Virtues in the Age of Truthiness and Twitter