[MD] Imaginings

[Ian Glendinning]

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<ridgecoyote at gmail.com> 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.
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