Openness

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Openness
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Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind
with an open one. Malcolm Forbes (1919
1990)
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The trouble with having an open mind, of course,
is that people will insist on coming along and
trying to put things in it.

• Terry Pratchett

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I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than
one closed by belief.

• Gerry Spence, 'How to Argue and Win Every Time'

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Good manners will open doors that the best
education cannot. Clarence Thomas (1948 - )
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There is no end to the adventures that we can
have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
Jawaharlal Nehru (1889 - 1964)
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Definitions

• What do we mean by openess ?

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One never knows what each day is going to bring.
The important thing is to be open and ready for
it. Henry Moore (1898 - 1986)
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To be brave is to love someone unconditionally,
without expecting anything in return. To just
give. That takes courage, because we don't want
to fall on our faces or leave ourselves open to
hurt. Madonna (1958 - ) O Magazine, January
2004
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• Thinking to get at once all the gold the goose
  could give, he killed it and opened it only to
  find - nothing.
• Aesop (620 BC - 560 BC) The Goose with the
  Golden Eggs

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Teachers open the door. You enter by yourself.
Chinese Proverb
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To be intelligent is to be open-minded, active,
memoried, and persistently experimental.
Leopold Stein
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Admonish thy friends in secret, praise them
openly. Publilius Syrus (100 BC)
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• Differences of habit and language are nothing at
  all if our aims are identical and our hearts are
  open.
• J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of
  Fire

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•  accessible, agape, airy, ajar, bare, clear,
  cleared, dehiscent, disclosed, emptied, expanded,
  expansive, exposed, extended, extensive, free,
  gaping, made passable, naked, navigable,
  passable, patent, patulous, peeled, removed,
  rent, revealed, rolling, spacious, spread out,
  stripped, susceptible, unbarred, unblocked,
  unbolted, unburdened, unclosed, uncluttered,
  uncovered, unfolded, unfurled, unimpeded,
  unlocked, unobstructed, unplugged, unsealed,
  unshut, unstopped, vacated, wide,
  yawningapparent, avowed, barefaced, blatant,
  conspicuous, downright, evident, flagrant, frank,
  manifest, noticeable, obvious, overt, plain,
  unconcealed, undisguised, visible, well-known

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Open people

• What is an open person?
• What is a closed person?
• Is it better to be an open or closed person?

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What do these mean?

• Open eyed
• Open handed
• Open hearted
• Open minded
• Open mouthed
• Are these good things?

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Secrets

• Is it wrong to have secrets?
• Can you think of times when it may be good to
  have secrets?
• Can a person be open and keep some secrets?

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Open Schools?

• What is an open school?
• List the things you may see in an open school
• Are we an open school?
• Do you know everything that happens at school?

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Secrets at schools

• Should a school have secrets?
• Give examples of when a school keeps secrets

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Government

• What is open government?
• Should a government be open in everything it
  does?
• Should a government be open in war time?
• What is the official secrets act?
• Can a government be open and have secrets?

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Open membership

• What do we mean by closed shop?
• Can you think of any examples?

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Openness in religion?

• Should the Christian church stop women from being
  priests?
• Should women be allowed to become leaders or
  preachers in other religions?
• Should gay people be allowed to worship in
  churches and other holy places?
• Can a non believer or a member of another
  religion enter a holy place?
• Is God open?
• Is heaven open to all?

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Open

• Open door
• Wide open
• Open sesame
• Open tournament
• Open forum
• Open plan
• Open book
• Open and shut case

• Open air
• Open eyed
• Open handed
• Open hearted
• Open minded
• Open mouthed
• Opening of a book
• Opening night

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Closed

• Closed shop
• Closed book
• Closed fisted
• Closure
• Enclose
• Closed for lunch
• Closed case

• Closed brackets
• Closed mind
• Closed ranks