One participant in these conversations was the American author and educator Parker Palmer, whose words of vision had inspired the group to take action: We have an opportunity to revision education . . . in a way that would result in a deeply ethical education, an education that would help students develop the capacity for connectedness that is at the heart of an ethical life. . . . In this education we come to know the world not simply as an objectified system of empirical objects in logical connection with each other, but as an organic body of personal relations and responses, a living and evolving community of creativity and compassion. Education of this sort means more than teaching the facts and learning the reasons so we can manipulate life towards our ends. It means being drawn into personal responsiveness and accountability to each other and the world of which we are a part. --Parker Palmer, from To Know as we are Known: Education as a Spiritual Journey
Posted on: Thu, 19 Sep 2013 15:13:15 +0000
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