A Metaphor is not an ornament, it is an organ of perception.
Leading as an improvisational dance.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply, willing is not enough we must do it. -Goethe
Permaculture vs. Monoculture
simple, natural, generative, not orderly vs. clean, orderly, not natural, not simple.
The is a parachute; It functions best when it's open.
If language is to retain its power to nourish and sustain our common life, we have to care for it in something like the way good farmers care for the life of the soil. -Marylin McEntyre
Leading as an improvisational dance.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply, willing is not enough we must do it. -Goethe
Permaculture vs. Monoculture
simple, natural, generative, not orderly vs. clean, orderly, not natural, not simple.
The is a parachute; It functions best when it's open.
If language is to retain its power to nourish and sustain our common life, we have to care for it in something like the way good farmers care for the life of the soil. -Marylin McEntyre
Education is like a Chinese meal: a series of short courses, none of which you ever really finish.
The mind is barren soil, and will produce no crop, unless it is continuously fertilized with foreign matter.
Minds are like parachutes; they only function when they are open.
Leading as an improvisational dance
For the metaphor board:
ReplyDeleteIs the human mind--
a dark cavern (needing illumination)
a muscle (needing exercising)
a vessel (needing filling)
a lump of clay (awaiting its potter)
a garden (to be tended)
a computer (to be programmed)
Are students--
troops
patients
sons and daughters
resources
sponges
funnels
strainers
sieves