Valuing Incoherence

Empower Mental Studies
& Leadership Programs

Dear Colleagues,
          Do you see the difference here?
 
  II. “Finished Product” assessment & rigorous evaluation..
                     on the one hand  
 
   I. “Cultivating Innovation,” assessment & encouragement
                    on the other hand.
 
Got to separate and polarize these two assessmental &
evaluational  hands so that neither dominates or runs the
show (sound of furious one-hand slapping ) so  the 2
might could just get along.  Manipulate.
Comprehend. Entertain.

Words strain,
Crack and sometimes break, under the burden,
Under the tension, slip, slide, perish,
Decay with imprecision, will not stay in place,
Will not stay still . . .   (T.S. Eliot)
 
Right there, where words give way, mid-stream
shifting meta-force toward frontiers yet unknown:
stalwart pioneers know what I mean, what I’m
saying.
 
Camp out!  Boy & Girl Scouts in a wilderness
of: cracks, breaks, tension & imprecision.
 
(Clarity’s a piece of let‘em-eat cake.
 A measurable gulp. Factor in  the
value of confusion:  courses of
another color.) 
 
A student mid-steam loses coherence,
I  don’t know what I  mean,
what  it is  I’m trying
to say .
 
Peers & cohort,
still as nouns,
silent in place:
a sport
in air.
 
She crashes. Burns.
Sweet schemes. &
flying machines in
pieces on the ground.

An environment that encourages
failure, says Keith Sawyer. Perfect
for the cultivation of collaborative
genius, the beginnings of liberal art,
emerging phenomena, and the
possibility of innovation. .
 
xxxooo, Sam