Wednesday, July 6, 2011

Our Metaphors

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

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
 

1 comment:

  1. For the metaphor board:
    Is 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

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