The world of education is filled with broken paradoxes—and with the lifeless results: • We separate head from heart. Result: minds that do not know how to feel and hearts that do not know how to think. • We separate facts from feelings. Result: bloodless facts that make the world distant and remote, and ignorant emotions that reduce truth to how one feels today. • We separate theory from practice. Result: theories that have little to do with life, and practice that is uninformed by understanding. • We separate teaching from learning. Result: teachers who talk but do not listen, and students who listen but do not talk. Paradoxical thinking requires that we embrace a view of the world in which opposites are joined, so that we can see the world clearly and see it whole. Such a view is characterized neither by flinty-eyed realism nor dewy-eyed romanticism, but by a creative synthesis of the two. - Parker Palmer (Educator)
Posted on: Fri, 04 Oct 2013 11:46:54 +0000
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