Or What's a College For?

Wait’ll the Committee gets a load of this!
We’ll raise some awareness,
dialogue, back& forth:
get a sustainable
con-versation
going
on.

On the one hand:

Ptolemaic Earth-Centric
Global Systemic Sustaining
Village & Local Volunteer
Fire Department Organization.

You guys gather by the
rope swing & the new
stone wall.

On the other hand:

Galilei Galileo & the Telos
Scopics Constellating Good
Heavens & the Plethora of
Many Worlds & Universes

You guys meet with Professor
Collins on the Spidel viewing
deck, overlooking the saw mill
and dig.

&&&

Ok Ok: Dear Colleagues, you can
improve my terms and images. I’m
as usual trying to set-up distinctions
so we can argue (best sense:
Gk.argos —building up a shared
“shining”) or what’s a college for?

Sustainability
has become our
shibboleth.

The biggest weasel-word in the world
at present. It can mean anything. May
we, can we: shake IT down and build
IT back up for our own selves? Cogito
Ergo Spam? Because we can!
Think locally. Such a sacred
cash cow.

Draw a circle around what-we-do:
call it EDUCATION

Forget about fluorescent light bulbs, hybrids,
Leeds certified buildings & grounds & stuff
like that which we already model and have
received our reward, nestled in the Blue Ridge
with 1,000 acres & photogenic landscapes:
an environmental PR dream. We’re a
poster child. Comes with the territory
we inherited. Place.

But pedagogically
—what?

Where’s our local list & assessment of
Pedagogical Unsustainable Practice s
in EDUCATING?

Because we wouldn’t be frantic about
SUSTAINABILITY if our ways of
knowing & learning (our own Environ
Mental studies & leadership programs)
hadn’t contributed if not brought us to
this pickle. Yes? Need we argue?

Our Ways of Doing-What-We-Do…

[not just our buildings & grounds
for crying out loud: ecological &
economical, sure—obviously:
surface concerns & important:
bottom line of the Mazlovian
Pyramid. ]

Questioning
the Powers that Be

Will the Sustainability Committee turn
inwards, introspective, recursive & reflective
so as to maybe see how close to the source
of global warming we might could get right
here: a consideration of our local educational
food back processes & practices given the
exponential space/time re-configurative media
changes and yet school is ESSENTIALLY
what-it-was when Miles Standish was helping
me cheat through 10^th grade math?

Environ Mentalism

I’m more interested in the increasing
number of ADD and hyper students
trialing diagnoses of learning disability:
dyslectic and anorectic, bulimic and
dys-morphic, anxious & depressed,
cutters, addictive joggers still smoking
despite our scolding and banishment
& how that supplies my local food for
thought—than I am in Al Gore/ Bono
collaborations for raising awareness in
Arizona & other points of the global village.

I don’t hesitate to beg questions and overstate,
knowing any one here can improve my terms
and images and am always asking for it.
Begging, actually. Or what’s a college for?

xxxooo, Sam