nothing involves other human beings... janitors job could just as well be done in a mortuary.
kindness care and empathy are essential...
moral will to do right by others and the moral skill to figure out what doing right means
aristotle - practival wisdom = moral will and moral skill
wise person knows when they should break the rules, knows when to improvise, like a jazz musician - using notes on page, but dancing around them,
a wise person is made, not born
you don't need to be brilliant to be wise, without wisdom, brilliance can be dangerous.
lemonade story - we hate to do it - but we have to follow procedure
when things go wrong - we reach for 2 things to try to fix them
1) rules
2) incentives
for both - better ones and more of them
the truth - neither are enough to do the job.
how could you get people to care.. proposterous
rules and incentives may make them better in the short run.. but the destroy in the long run.
they destroy our desire to do the right thing.
engaging in a war on wisdom
american ed - scripted curriculum
scripts are insurance policies against disaster,... but what they put in its place - mediocrity
too many rules make people (musicians) lose their gifts or stop playing all together
we must ask, not just is it profitable, but is it right. -obama
we need to try to re-moralize work.
how not to do it:
1) teach more morality
instead - celebrate moral exemplars,
ray anderson's ted - turned evil empire into a 0 footprint business - bonus - he'll make even more money
willy smith's ted - reforesting in indonesia, took a lot of intelligence, but more so - needed to know the people in the community
janitors
practitioners
any work that you do with other people involves moral work and any moral work requires wisdom
teachers - we are always teaching, someone is always watching, ...
most important thing kids to need learn is character
respect others, respect learning.
we need to embody that every hour of every day.
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