In addition to nurturing a culture of innovation and reflection, talking about failure helps build a canon of knowledge of what not to do in the future.
An administrator must synthesize multiple ways of looking at a humanities professor — one who was given no set syllabus and no canon of knowledge to convey, just a simple charge to develop students' minds in ways they might only appreciate decades later but are asked to describe in 20 minutes carved from the last class before vacation.
A commission of 40 members held hearings around the state to decide what should be included in this core canon of knowledge, with an estimated 50,000 people taking part in the debates.
(Reasons (gu) have a role in the later Mohist theory of dialectics or argumentation, but not in the canons on knowledge).
They believe in a common set of basic skills and knowledge that all children should acquire; progressives rejected the traditional idea of a universal canon of fundamental knowledge.
The concept of cardioprotection through omega-3 PUFA supplementation has been firmly engrained into the canon of medical knowledge and clinical thinking, as is evidenced by the AHA guidelines recommending intake of omega-3 PUFA [ 73].
And the thing behind, I am afraid, is talent, and the canon, and the body of knowledge we call literature.
(The texts make no attempt to link the two, and Canon A80 treats aspects of knowledge that do not mesh directly with the account in A3 A6).
The core of later Mohist epistemology is presented in two places, a group of canons describing basic cognitive functions (A3 6) and another canon listing sources and types of knowledge (A80).
Graham (2003/1978) claims, strangely, that the notion of bian in the Canons is part of a different field of knowledge from the notion of bian in the "Lesser Selection".
