Always for the Sake of
Argument:
How can WE will use our ignorance
which our growth requires, who
has so often to be using our
knowledge.
(Thoreau., slightly reconfigured.)
Can you imagine, conceive of,
a program that sees Ignorance
as it's resource and maybe the
mother of its inventions?
Pre-requisite for admission:
I'm comfortable in my
own ignorance.
[Is any one here interested in
starting a Stupid Club together?
We could meet on-line any
time we wanted: ignorance not
being a problem, we'd constitute
and embarrassment of riches,
and no doubt get smart and
smarter the more we cultivated
dumb and dumber. A think tank
together, Think about it. Let me
know. No stipend. No released
time.No sweat. No smarty-pants
need apply.]
When the English Department years
ago decided to start an Honor’s
Program, I wondered about our
Dishonors—whether it would be left
out in the cold, thrown in the cellar,
secured in the attic.
That, of course, sounds perverse
to the Honors-Inclined, but to the
Holistic or Systems devoted, it
merely sounds practical: whole-
assed, say rather than half.
The kind of thinking that got us
into the problems, can’t be the
kind of thinking that’ll get us
out, says Einstein.
(Albert.)
And Keith Sawyer attests to the
fact that an environment that
encourages failure and suspects
clarity is perquisite to developing
collaborative genius. A good thing.
And Ray Anderson: our green hero
from industry and commerce: I’ve
quoted over and over and over as
calling for systematic change in
educating—not just symptomatic
jiggle juggling of the same thing
in different costume.
New clothing: can you see it now?
Ah, yes— lovely, innovative
and yet : rigorous!
xxxooo, Sam
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