Dear Aga, Shelagh, Angela, Lawrence and Fellow Practitioner Researchers
I am minded to repy to the current discussions as they have captured my interest. I often read but rarely respond however some issues have promted me to respond on this occassion.
When the challenges of are faced by a human being from conception to birth then ongoing growth into adulthood one of the bigest challenges a human faces is standing up it is perhaps the largest learning development we all of us make in our lives. As we age we are faced by extrinsic educational systems, from nursary, school, college and university, we face challenges of peer pressures, familly pressures, authority and political pressures. If we manage to maintain our own unique individual perspectives and free thought whilst playing an active role in the common and shared then we face many serrious issues and challenges. How do we maintain our own individual intellectual freedoms? How do we revisit the three year old within us all? A three year old is not an empty vesel to be filled up with others views or so called facts of the world?
I beleive that provided an individual is empowered to make informed choices and is aware of allternatives beyond whatever educational models, systems and authoritative views they are expossed thriving societies can prevail. It is interesting to note that as age separation occurs within stages of education delivery what is taught as 'Truth' changes at each level. Not many teachers say I do not know which is what specialist scientists say all the time. I suggest none of know anything really? We may understand in time but know probably not? It is not the end objective that matters it is the process, the journey the ever changing world of knowledge creation? living and sharing of life?
Still listening from a distance.
Best wishes to all Andrew Henon
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