Re: Definition of Learning LO851

Michael McMaster (Michael@kbddean.demon.co.uk)
Thu, 20 Apr 1995 20:58:47 GMT

Replying to LO831 --

Ivan, not so fast ... we've been in a system of supression of the
"natural" for so long that many of us accept it and our resignation to
it. For instance, I once went into a smelter and, in the course of my own
learning, asked someone working there where the metal went that he was
loading into little box cars that went under a curtain into a different
part of the plant and what happened to it after it left here. He said, "I
have no idea." I asked how long he'd been working at this same job and he
answered, "seven years."

In many cases there is more historical or cultural background work to do -
or something which is an interruption of the customary flow of things -
before that natural figuring out of context occurs.

-- 
Mike McMaster      <Michael@kbddean.demon.co.uk>
    "Intelligence is an underlying organisational principle
     of the universe.  The 'logos principle' is hidden and
     perceptible only to the intelligence."   Heraclitus