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  INTELLECTUAL FREEDOM

Free inquiry is an important freedom to have. I believe that the best way for humankind to extend knowledge and maximize understanding is by allowing individuals a maximum amount of liberty of thought, belief, questioning and inquiry. I particularly value having this liberty because, unlike many, I am especially curious. I’m driven to seek out and explore new territory in pursuing intellectual rewards. I get a thrill out of acquiring new knowledge, distinguishing between knowledge and speculation, probing the world of appearances for the underlying reality, making new connections, and applying my reasoning and analytical skills in refining and extending my worldview, that conceptual map that’s my guide to finding the way through and making sense out of the confusion of existence.

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More to Explore -- Worldview Theme #30: Intellectual Freedom

Freedom of Thought (from online encyclopedia)
Intellectual Freedom (mainly about issues related to intellectual freedom in libraries, censorship)
Censorship and Intellectual Freedom Page 
Curiosity  (from online encyclopedia)
Inquiry Education  (from online encyclopedia)
Discovery Learning (from online encyclopedia)
Curious Minds: How a Child Becomes a Scientist  (collection of 27 autobiographical essays on this topic)
Curiosity: The Fuel of Development
Curiosity and Exploration
Edge (online thought-provoking website exploring questions "at the edge of the world's knowledge")
Awakening Genius
National Association for Gifted Children ("supporting the needs of high potential learners")
Learning Theories
Academic Freedom  (from online encyclopedia)
Academic Freedom (from the Dictionary of the History of Ideas)
American Association of University Professors ("academic freedom for a free society")
Why We Need to Protect Academic Freedom, by John K. Wilson
Learning Concepts
Shape and the First Hundred Nouns (acquiring 1st concepts)
Comparing Burke's Connections and Rogers' Diffusion of Innovation -- Implications for Education
What is an Ontology?
Learning -- Behavioral Psychology (links)
Sparks of Genius, by R. & M. Root-Bernstein (a book about creative thinking)
Creativity  (from online encyclopedia)
Einstein and Intellectual Freedom
quotes on intellectual freedom, censorship and related topics
quotes related to curiosity

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