travelling too much this month...need to write but finding that time is against me...
making time, making space in the schedule of life to pay attention and to reflect is not easy
its easy to be dragged along
easy to uncouple the thinking and just float along bumping into whatever comes next
its important to stop...its important to
Wednesday 12 November 2008
Tuesday 11 November 2008
university for all the people
It is very interesting that there are so few universities located in rural areas...why is that beyond the obvious that more people are centered around cities?
I want to suggest we need to develop a new form of university for all people. One that offers anyone, of any age from toddler to pensioner to have lifelong access to resources to inform, challenge and develop their skills, knowledge understanding and their resilience. At the moment, universities are elite places, they remain the places of the few, and not of the many, they remain the places where people spend a little time and then move on, they remain in the main, peripheral to most people's lives. Yet they could be a way of thinking about future living, they could be places where people can meet and think together, they could be places that inform and provide the possibility for people to pass on skills and practice new things. The local university could be a way of re-thinking how we re-connect school to community. Instead of school, we could all be part of the local university, it could be truly universal.
Instead of being preoccupied with the university as a building, let's think of the university as a way of combining ideas - people - and problems and re-defining the university as a place of learning again that serves people for their lifetime of learning, it could easily play a central part in forming the renaissance of sustainable communities.
I want to suggest we need to develop a new form of university for all people. One that offers anyone, of any age from toddler to pensioner to have lifelong access to resources to inform, challenge and develop their skills, knowledge understanding and their resilience. At the moment, universities are elite places, they remain the places of the few, and not of the many, they remain the places where people spend a little time and then move on, they remain in the main, peripheral to most people's lives. Yet they could be a way of thinking about future living, they could be places where people can meet and think together, they could be places that inform and provide the possibility for people to pass on skills and practice new things. The local university could be a way of re-thinking how we re-connect school to community. Instead of school, we could all be part of the local university, it could be truly universal.
Instead of being preoccupied with the university as a building, let's think of the university as a way of combining ideas - people - and problems and re-defining the university as a place of learning again that serves people for their lifetime of learning, it could easily play a central part in forming the renaissance of sustainable communities.
Saturday 1 November 2008
A reaction to no action
IF YOU SPEND ALL YOUR TIME TRYING, THEN ALL YOU'RE DOING IS TRYING. SO DON'T TRY. JUST DO.
Saw this on the side of a wall as I was travelling on the train the other day, it took the outward and return journey to see all the message, thanks to whoever posted it!
Saw this on the side of a wall as I was travelling on the train the other day, it took the outward and return journey to see all the message, thanks to whoever posted it!
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