ABSTRACT
Cox (1975) recommends to us the art of entertaining ideas. He advises us “to invite [ideas] in and make them feel at home-as you do companywhile you get to know them . . .” (p. 9). Getting to know ideas in this way is at the heart of learning. Yet issuing these invitations, staying in touch with the ideas, and exploring new aspects of them is easier said than done. We differ with respect to our willingness to engage with new ideas. Indeed each of us, as individuals, may find some ideas easy to invite in and others hard. To the extent that we keep an idea at the threshold, however, we limit our understanding of it, its complexity, and its potential.
