Saturday, December 26, 2009

Philosophical Interlude: Change

From the introduction to one of my early teaching bibles:

"It is the thesis of this book that change--constant, accelerating, ubiquitous--is the most striking characteristic of the world we live in and that our educational system has not yet recognized this fact."
Postman and Weingartner. Teaching as a Subversive Activity. New York: Dell, 1969.

As sciences and technologies continue to evolve, the first half of this sentence still resonates. I like to think that in the last forty years a larger percentage of people who work in educational systems--i.e., learning communities--understand this "striking characteristic" and have applied the understanding to their daily decisions.

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