What you trivialize as a "whim" is quite likely a decision
based a deeply held values applied in a very personal,
local, small scale fashion. The choice may be informed by a
vastly different world view with an aesthetic expression
that can be quite confounding when taken out of context.
How a consensus is arrived at elsewhere can be very
different from what you're accustomed to.
You only see the position of a communication tower on a map,
but you don't understand why that spot was chosen because
you don't understand the local culture or have the physical
experience of the environment at small scale. If the local
citizenry wishes to educate their government and
engage/develop governmental services, they will. And if
they wish to operate in a fashion that seems to you
independent of their government, they will. It is simply
their own business how they accomplish their goals.
If I want an educated civil service, I will educate my own
local civil service. Help given elsewhere is according to
the wish to receive it, independent of my opinion of what
they should have. Otherwise, I would be setting myself up as
better than those whom I'm aiding.
Tajalli
On 10/11/15 12:38 PM, john whelan wrote:
So what you're saying essentially is no centralised
planning as we know it and the presence of schools is more
at the whim of the locals rather than government
responding to needs. In the short term NGOs work but I
think in the longer term it sounds as if we should be
trying to create a reasonably educated civil service.
Thanks
Cheerio John
On 11 October 2015 at 14:35, Tajalli Spencer
<[email protected]
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Factors for locating a school would be similar for
selecting a site for a homestead: is the land
available? are there some nice trees or other
features to moderate weather extremes? perhaps water
availability as well as protection from flooding?
where's the bulk of the existing population? where
does the person or church/mosque/temple etc that
sponsors the education exist/reside?
Similarly for communications towers: land
availability, road access for building it, adjacency
to population and other towers, protection from
flooding, absence of hills/mountains that would block
transmission, not on a sacred site.
On 10/11/15 10:11 AM, john whelan wrote:
When mapping I stumble across communication towers
from time to time. I assume these are for mobile
phones. After we map you can see the rough size of
towns and villages etc. but before then how do people
decide where to locate these and other such things as
schools?
In other words how do you plan without maps?
Thanks John
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