Middle States!! It’s Honors In Action Theme Thursday!! Every Thursday, or so, we will hold a discussion about the Honors In Action Themes. We encourage you and your chapter to join in to exchange and generate ideas, not only about the theme, but also in possibly how to utilize and implement the theme as your Chapters’ Honors In Action Project. Remember to use the Honors In Action Guide https://ptk.org/sites/default/files/docs/honors/2014-2015_honors_program_guide.pdf Those who attended Middle States Academy, Honors Institute, and or Phi Theta Kappa Honors Institute, please share discussions and ideas that were presented during your HIA seminar groups. This Thursday: Theme 2 Ideas and ideologies as Frontiers. What frontiers of thought shape the world? Any quest begins with an idea or an idea about an idea that is believed to be truth but suspected by some to be false. The idea itself is a quest for truth, but myths may be mistaken for truths. Surely, Darwin, Freud, Sun Tzu, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Marx never anticipated the dialogues their ideas — or truths — would generate. When does the thought as a frontier become a colonization of mind? Ideas are transactional for all involved: explorer and the discovered. Quoting W. B. Yeats, Salman Rushdie beckons, “ ‘In dreams begin responsibilities.’ The way we see the world affects the world we see...In dreams begin responsibilities, too.” (Step Across This Line, Part Two, 364-375). Rushdie’s words are also ideas to be explored, questioned and shaped by other ideas, and the result can be revolutionary. ptk.org/
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