Seeking the Personal

2007-04-01T13:00:00.002-04:00

Personal

Qualities we seek in our self and others for this community:

Pre-existing integrity

Transformation

Actualization

Connecting/reconnecting our individual to purpose

Holding up mirror

Listening

Love

Acceptance

Unity

Contribution

Giving

Heart centered

Psychology of Environment: Smile, Be Happy

2006-04-30T22:05:00.000-04:00

I am suggesting the following:
All the education in the world will not move people to live in a closer relationship with the environment.

This statement strikes me so very flawed to its core. It is more wrong than false and the reason is frightening. Though, to be a bit unfair, I did write it to be dismantled.

"All the education in the world" is too absolute and impossible a phrase, but is meant to stress that there is no level nor limit to the education one could receive to make the desired effect of connecting back to the environment to the degree which is required to calm our flailing planet. Education will enlighten a few for sure, but the majority will accept it as yet another form of passive or strictly guided learning. These are indeed bold statements, though once one grasps that education itself is holding us all back through its passive and narrowly convergent ways, the slate becomes blank.

The definition of education given by the most recent Merriam-Webster online source says this: 1 a : the action or process of educating or of being educated; also : a stage of such a process b : the knowledge and development resulting from an educational process education>
2 : the field of study that deals mainly with methods of teaching and learning in schools

I start to become sceptical about a definition when the source word is used within. Though to see it from the point of view of the student I’d have to say that it is the acquiring of knowledge which is directed from an instructor. I ask what knowledge and how is it integrated internally?

to be continued...

My Plants

2006-04-22T12:57:00.000-04:00

My window sill is coming to life with Forget-Me-Nots, Baby's Breath, Velvet Curtains, Penny Blacks, Astilbe, Lavender, and Corriander. Placed in a nursary made from an old library book cart and lots of reused containers these babies grow to the light and the sound of FM 100.7.

2006-03-04T18:59:00.000-05:00

Even in the madness of this black and white world one can still find their flower.

High Urban Meadows

Seeking the Personal

Psychology of Environment: Smile, Be Happy

My Plants