Keith, the beginning of learning is imitation. The second step is analysis and critical thinking. The Third step is performance dialogue between equals in the business. The fourth step is reflection on the action and reflection in action that evolves creative change. Indian people call this the four directions and it's the same pedagogy and system's design that the late Donald Schön and John Warfield wrote about in their works on practice. My coach's model was different even though as the European that we respected (for football and civics) he was preaching a model we had surpassed thousands of years ago. But of course our model was then ignored until the present with the System's Analysts.
Humm! REH From: Keith Hudson [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, February 25, 2012 2:01 PM To: RE-DESIGNING WORK, INCOME DISTRIBUTION, , EDUCATION; Ray Harrell Subject: RE: [Futurework] China will get stuck also Ray, At 17:11 25/02/2012, REH wrote: Keith, you sound like my high school football coach on the Quapaw Indian reservation talking about the "Oriental mind." The year was 1958. In that case he was more prescient than me! One example of the difference between the Chinese (and Japanese) mind and others is the car. The first cars that China produced were almost exact copies of some GM and Italian models. You'd have thought that in the 1980s they'd have designed much smaller cars for their new market. In contrast, in India the newly set up Tata Motors has designed a brand new one, the Nano. It's small and low price but isn't cheap and nasty. It's destined to be exported to Europe also. Keith REH From: [email protected] [ mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> ] On Behalf Of Keith Hudson Sent: Saturday, February 25, 2012 5:32 AM To: RE-DESIGNING WORK, INCOME DISTRIBUTION, , EDUCATION Subject: [Futurework] China will get stuck also Until the Chinese learn how to loosen-up their authoritarian teaching methods, then China will never become the lead country in the world. It will undoubtedly become a very large economic force in terms of GDP -- if not the largest -- just as Japan almost managed to do in the 1980s (but was then poleaxed when America insisted on the yen being revalued upwards so much that Japan's export trade became stabilized instead of growing further). Like Japan, China will remain brilliant at reverse engineering almost every advanced product that is made in America, the UK or Germany, but it will never initiate any new industrial or commercial sector on its own anytime soon -- other things (parental ambitions and education methods) being equal. A possible exception to this may occur if China were to send enough of its children at a young enough age to be educated in the West. When they reach their 20s, these Chinese would likely be at least as innovative as Western 20 to 30-year olds. But it would then depend on whether the innovators return to China to advance their ideas there or whether they remain in the West (as many post-Doc researchers do). Also, innovators need supportive friends and colleagues of like (maverick) mind, not to mention rich individuals who are prepared to invest in whacky ideas. There may not be enough of those back in mainland China for many decades yet. Goodness knows, venture funds have taken a long time to become established in the West. On balance, therefore, although Chinese people are likely to be as prosperous as those in the West in 20 years' time and with wage rates just as high, China is likely to be stuck as fast as Japan now is with nowhere else to go. There is already too much evidence that biology will dominate man's next commercial phase. As the 'metal-bashing' industrial revolution in the West continues to pause in the coming decades while China catches up, and when no new mass-produced consumer goods appear in the shopping malls or on the internet, when will the biological revolution take place? Whether we are talking of extinguishing mid-life killer diseases, or of breeding better quality children (that is, with fewer harmful mutations), or of carbon-based products (with DNA-based machine tools) far superior in performance to the present metallic or simple plastic ones, or of repopulating denuded ecosystems for our enjoyment, then this is where the West is already clear in the lead with tens of thousands of research scientists exploring every nook and cranny. Governments in the West ought to be heartened by the better long-term prospects but, of course, politicians and civil servants are almost completely uneducated in the basics of the last revolution, never mind the coming one. As in the 18th and 19th centuries, they're going to have to run very hard behind new businesses in order to retain even a semblance of seeming to lead their punter-electorates. Keith Keith Hudson, Saltford, England http://allisstatus.wordpress.com <http://allisstatus.wordpress.com/> Keith Hudson, Saltford, England http://allisstatus.wordpress.com <http://allisstatus.wordpress.com/>
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