Word: mentality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Brown says he concentrates "on a person's life experiences. We don't try to deal with all of the mental garbage you have floating around in your head. We deal with intuitive experiences--where people are coming from...
WHAT OUR "liberal education" lacks is tactile experiences. Our schooling enforces the classic mind-body split; there is no effort to integrate the two, through craft or application. All our mental activity, focused on two-dimensional ink and paper, leaves the body stranded...
Movies and colorful maps, exhibits and concrete experiments, are like CPR for the senses. Without them, nothing one does with the eyes and hands involves the brain. Education should bring the physical and the mental together. Otherwise the physical becomes something separate, sensory but senseless. We all recognize the dangers mindless physicality: body worship, the descent from the erotic to the obscene. But the mind, separated from the body, also diminishes; intellectualism blurs into asceticism. The isolation of senses from thoughts is as dehumanizing in philosophy as in pornography...
...There is a complete need to revamp the whole [mental health] system in the state," said Voke's Press Secretary Norman R. Lombardi...
...governor wants Massachusetts to once again become a national leader in mental health care, said Andrew Dreyfus, a spokesman for the Executive Office of Human Services. Dreyfus was referring to the fact that in the 1860s Massachusetts was the first state in the Union to provide public mental health hospitals...