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The Institute for the Study of Human Knowledge (ISHK) is a non-profit educational charity [1] [2] and publisher [citation needed] established in 1969 [2] by the psychologist and writer Robert E. Ornstein [citation needed] and based in Los Altos, California, in the United States. [2]
The Institute for Cultural Research (ICR) was a London-based, UK-registered educational charity, [1] [2] [3] events organizer and publisher which aimed to stimulate study, debate, education and research into all aspects of human thought, behaviour and culture. [4] It brought together many distinguished speakers, writers and Fellows over the years.
Suggested questions include humans' relations with time, nature and each other, as well as basic human motives and the nature of human nature. Florence Kluckhohn and Fred Strodtbeck suggested alternate answers to all five, developed culture-specific measures of each, and described the value orientation profiles of five southwestern United ...
The Idries Shah Foundation (ISF) is an independent educational and cultural charity, [2] set up by the family [1] of the late thinker, writer, and teacher in the Sufi mystical tradition, Idries Shah, who wrote over three dozen books on topics ranging from psychology and spirituality to travelogues and culture studies.
Hirsch is best known for his 1987 book Cultural Literacy, which was a national best-seller and a catalyst for the standards movement in American education. [2] Cultural Literacy included a list of approximately 5,000 "names, phrases, dates, and concepts every American should know" in order to be "culturally literate."
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The Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education (ISKME), is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization founded in 2002. Located in Half Moon Bay, California, its mission is to make learning and knowledge sharing participatory, equitable, and open.
A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge (commonly called the Principles of Human Knowledge, or simply the Treatise) is a 1710 work, in English, by Irish Empiricist philosopher George Berkeley. This book largely seeks to refute the claims made by Berkeley's contemporary John Locke about the nature of human perception.