JourneyOfLearning

The Journey of Learning
We are too preoccupied with school as the solution for meeting society's individual and social potential. As the world get more complex, global and overloaded fundamentalist thinking limits our potential anyway. Let's start with some rules for learning
 * good learning is purposeful. It's just that the right challenges can be hard to see
 * no-one will ever know it all. Perhaps that's why we need a guiding light that some call God.
 * complexity of life and it's problems has always required collaboration
 * learning is part of every day we live. School only sets a few guidelines as part of the journey
 * in a fast-changing world we need to be able to problem-solve, adapt, and reevaluate limits and directions.
 * self-confident, yet objective learners willing to challenge themselves for the common good are the best learners
 * school as an institution may have lost its way. Should 21stC teachers be cyphers, transmitters, relationship builders or done away with under the banner of anachronism? Until we are willing to face this political simplicity and fundamentalism will continue to eat away at the social fabric of which school is part.

As educators we need to choose whether our primary commitment is to Gaia leadership or self-serving fundamentalism. There are no answers, merely a willingness to educate oneself and others on the journey.