Discussion, Discussed

Our cyber-friend Jeffery Hodges has just published, and posted at his website, a thoughtful article on the intellectual and cultural requirements for productive discourse. The subject is of particular interest to Jeffery, who is a college professor in Korea — where, in keeping with Confucian social tradition, to question one’s superiors is to get above one’s station, and is often regarded as an insult.

Read it here.

3 Comments

  1. Thanks for the link, Malcolm.

    Jeffery Hodges

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    Posted May 16, 2010 at 11:24 pm | Permalink
  2. Malcolm says

    Thanks for the post!

    Posted May 16, 2010 at 11:42 pm | Permalink
  3. JK says

    Read your comment “over there” and while this isn’t the original place I too saw it posited (originally – I’m “nearly” certain – it was included in the addendum of an NTSB report – but not in ‘Findings’):

    http://blogs.wsj.com/middleseat/2008/12/04/malcolm-gladwell-on-culture-cockpit-communication-and-plane-crashes/

    Posted May 17, 2010 at 4:20 am | Permalink

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