>Replying to LO4678 --
>
>Stephen B. Wehrenberg said -- snip
>Thus ... it follows from this conjecture that personal mastery, team
>learning, and individual and shared vision are more likely to be grasped
>and operationalized by those who have an internal orientation, and nearly
>unintelligible to folks on the distant external end of Rotter's scale of
>measure.
> -- snip
>There are some interesting and not altogether pleasant connections
>between this and Charles Murray's theories in his controversial book.
>coauthored with Herrnstein), The Bell Curve.
> -- snip
>The reductio ad absurdum, not necessarily absurd, of this line of
>reasoning, is that the concept of the learning organization (and systems
>thinking) will be lost on a large segment of the polulation ... and what
>do we think about that?
Steve,
The way to teach being a community is to be a community. We have all of
the tools, we just have to decide what they are for and what order they
come in. I have students that are so used to being entertained by the
latest advancement in education that they never practice. They just
understand. Knowledge is the ability to do intuitively. Understanding is
not knowledge it is a kind of preparation for knowledge. Only practice
brings knowledge. If you are going to be a group you have to BE a group.
What doesn't exist can't learn.
Don't throw away the old in favor of the novel. Accept and know the old
then slowly add the new realizing how it fits in the old structure. Time
always relegates the new and revolutionary to its proper place in its own
history and shows who its relatives are. And there are always relatives.
Consciousness is the ability to know who the relatives of your history
are. Some peoples burn their history when a person dies in order for the
present generation not to be made slaves to their lack of originality. If
they don't know they may just do it better. We bury our past in paper and
digits and then make the sheer volume impossible and feel a kind of
freedom, like the old ones. But they knew the real history was in the way
we walk and smile, not in what we say. Words can lie. Today's IQ tests
are tomorrow's foolishness. Perception, projection, recognition,
expression, reflection, meditation--if we are observant these do not lie
for they are neither true or false, they simply are. When the community
can perceive as a community, imagine as a community, recognize other
communities as a community, express their identity as a community, reflect
and learn from that reflection together as a community and then meditate
on its ultimate meaning as a community then.....
I can only talk as I have been taught,
Thanks,
-- Ray Evans Harrell mcore@soho.ios.com
-- mcore@soho.ios.com (Ray Evans Harrell)