11 December

Born in 1918 – Clinton Adams, American painter.

Above: Chavez Ravine V, 1951

Also, born in 1901, English philosopher Michael Oakeshott, who said:

Education is not acquiring a stock of ready-made ideas, images, sentiments, beliefs and so forth; it is learning to look, to listen, to think, to feel, to imagine, to believe, to understand, to choose and to wish.

and

The politics of our society are a conversation in which past, present and future each has a voice; and though one or other of them may on occasion properly prevail none permanently dominates, and on this account we are free.

Previously on December 11, Mark Tobey & Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.