A. Gaffar Peang-Meth
Pacific Daily News
An educator in a Mid-Atlantic area public school system in the United States captured students' and parents' attention as he addressed them: "If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always got."What simple logic and common sense. But, as another saying goes, none is so blind or deaf as those who do not see or hear. German-born American physicist Albert Einstein said, "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result."
But men and women, creatures of habit, excel at repeating routine actions and creating patterns which can keep us walled in, providing perhaps a false sense of security and an excuse for not trying something new in order to avoid failure.
This, in a life of countless unknowns. As patterned thought and routine action become "fossilized," they stifle and block man's ability to think critically, a necessary factor to survive socially, politically and economically in the 21st century world.
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