On Wed, 14 Aug 1996, Dr Ilfryn Price wrote:
> > What can we do to prevent this trend that has happened to everything
> > from
> > MBOs to Quality etc from happening to LO? ...Keith
>
> We can't prevent that process from happening. It is part of a larger
> system that we do not influence. All I would think we can do is reduce the
> level of exaggerated expectations and "hype" that we encounter, focus on
> continual learning ourselves, and grow with whatever LO turns into...
>
> Tobin
>
> -- end of quoted msg --
[good stuff snipped for brevity}
>
> I believe we can do more than Tobin suggests. I believe we can also focus
> on our own unlearning and can try to understand what it is makes that
> process so difficult, as individuals or in larger groupings.
>
> If Price
Thanks for the eloquent addition, If. Unlearning is probably much more
difficult than "learning", since it means changing ourselves, not just
adding to our accumulation of "knowledge". Chris Argyris's work comes to
mind as a testimony to the challenge you have laid before us.
But, then, you have always been one to challenge us in new and
unexpected ways as I remember...
Tobin Quereau
quereau@austin.cc.tx.us
--Tobin Quereau <quereau@austin.cc.tx.us>
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