Being Wrong

Unplugged Summer or Plugged (I Disagree With the NYT)

Emily Franklin | Posted 10.18.2011

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Emily Franklin

The NYT isn't wrong. I just disagree with this article in which the author describes his terrific "plugged-in summer."

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Teaching Being Wrong

Elory Rozner | Posted 05.25.2011

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Elory Rozner

We require "internal flexibility and communal permission to backtrack and revise." Can we get schools to value teaching this skill, and skilled educators who can teach this value?

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Being Wrong in a Culture Consumed by Comparison

Carol Smaldino | Posted 12.02.2011

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Carol Smaldino

Being Wrong describes our insistent need to be right as an affliction that covers not only our globe but also the living rooms and bedrooms of many of us too much of the time.

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When Were You Last Wrong? We Need to Change How We Think About Our Errors

Johann Hari | Posted 05.25.2011

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Johann Hari

We all make mistakes. We also all have a choice about whether to approach our errors in terror so we suppress, ignore and repeat them -- or whether we make them our honest, open ally in trying to get to the truth.

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