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February 12 I am willing to be wrong"The larger lesson that Bernie taught could be summed up in one of his most often-used expressions: "I'm willing to be wrong." What it meant was, "I'm open to argument. But you'd better give me a good reason to change my mind, not simply throw around rhetoric." The message was that wisdom requires listening to other points of view and holding one's own position to high standards of intellectual rigor" - A tribute by one of Bernard Saffran (1936-2004)'s students, Arnold Kling, along with sampling of his wit in the teaching of microeconomics. http://www.techcentralstation.com/120104F.html And the article ends with "Yet there was only one Bernie. I'm willing to be wrong, but I don't think there was ever a better economics teacher" TrackbacksThe trackback URL for this entry is: http://sarvanama.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!F839F26168504855!375.trak Weblogs that reference this entry
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