Hi John, nice one ... "how [...] races and cultures can be accommodated side by side." and "Designed in a circle with enough food for all and gardened according to the wisest minds in a holistic pattern." Tending our own garden is a good metaphor (reality) in this space - and therefore a good basis for wise education.
Purely by coincidence I just blogged 5 minutes ago on the opposite side of this coin - the population of our global village. http://www.psybertron.org/?p=2660 Regards Ian On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 7:59 AM, John Carl<[email protected]> wrote: > "Civilization sends us out here to solve a great problem: i.e., how two > races and cultures can be accommodated side by side. And we fall to > stock-speculation and wheat-raising and leave the problem to the political > hack and the strong-lunged agitator." > > > Letter of Royce, in 1870, to chancellor of brand new Berkely, complaining of > California, but his point could be made about America today. > > > But Platt asks a question: how? We may talk of utopian better ways, but > baby, you know we'd love to see the plan... besides whining, what points > can be made? > > > > Platt sez vouchers. > > > John agrees. Start with fundamental choice for parents. Either institute > vouchers or eliminate the whole boon doggerel. This will open up the > system to experimentation and creativity and break the hold of the academic > forces of self-interest which clamp down upon non-SOMish philosophys. But > besides freedom, a positive choice should be instantiated. A goal to shoot > for, an ideal to draw in the sand - in other words, don't just open up the > possibility of a Quality education, actually try creat one. Or at least the > curricula. > > > Platt sez How. > > > > The cliche greeting of the Red Man. > > > I responded thus to Platt before, but more mention is needed of DQ > University. > > > The dream part imagining is whereby we communally design a curriculum for > such. > > > The dream continues in that those who currently are in charge of the actual > DQ University, would be overwhelmed by the comprehensive Quality of our > curriculum and would adopt it and begin training young people today in the > ideas of yesterday we're going to need tomorrow. > > > egad. I'm already writing like an administrator. > > > Of course its far-reaching and beyond any man's grasp. But it's a good > idea, and good ideas deserve an outworking of their ramifications. So... I > will get the ball rolling with some ideas for classes at DQ University. > > > We start with Metaphysics 101. This is because you need to understand the > ground upon which your education is based. This should be the first thing > all students learn and the fact that it is not is only due to the > status-quo, powers-that-be-in-charge, having a vested interest in covering > up and hiding. Not so at DQ University - which carries the principle of > openness and honesty to a seemingly ridiculous degree. > > > Metaphysics 101 will be conducted by a teacher reading to a class, with > pauses for questions when anybody needs to ask a question. The class will > be as long as the students need to get through the required reading, with no > set time limit. The grades will be pass or fail. If you persist in > sticking with the class and reaching the communal consensus of > understanding, you are ready to move on. If you fail, you have to keep > playing until you succeed or drop out or do something different. I think > all classes should be like that. > > After a firm grounding in Metaphysics, the student will choose a track of > education in harmony with their taste and inclination, but to successfully > graduate from DQ University, every student must have absorbed and > demonstrated the knowledge of mastery of all levels of their being - in a > natural progression from the biological arts of agriculture and shelter > creation to the high intellectual pursuits of art and politics. > > > In fact, the school grounds should be themselves an ideal demonstration of > proper principles put in practice. Designed in a circle with enough food > for all and gardened according to the wisest minds in a holistic pattern. > > > And archery. Every student should learn how to hit the target with a bow. > For your doctorate, you have to get it in the bulls eye. > > > There. I have a plan. > Moq_Discuss mailing list > Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. > http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org > Archives: > http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ > http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/ > Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
