So happy to see this education group. Thanks for starting it, Matthew, and for putting Follett's talk to teachers at Boston University online, so I could find her "fresh life" quote so easliy. (See below.)
The student has hithero often had to be his own liaison officer between the wisdom of the past and the occurrences of today. One of the most marked characteristics of present-day teaching is that the teacher is taking over this task, is realizing that the teacher is not one who has lived and the student one who is going to live, but that both are living now, in the present, that it should be fresh life meeting fresh life. There can be no more false dichotomy than a teacher with past wisdom and student with present experience.
I'm on email notification and recently opened a tab for the Mary Parker Follett Network, after a period of being absent. And I just read the paper on the teacher-student relation. I joined the education group and want to offer this... "Follettine" research expands rapidly!
There's only been a couple of posts to the group...I've read them all. I got suggestions (inwardly) from this discussion, and a great deal as well from the paper itself.
Since my last formal activity in the network, I've been very busy in "proving the relevance" of such inspiration in daily life! (That's special to the group - not in my Network Profile!...although I suppose the assertion will be duly noted in the Activity Register).
Jeff Bedolla (on a beautiful summer morning that just became brighter!), in San Jose, California..
I'm reading the paper, The Teacher-Student Relation. I am an amateur scholar, and I love doing research! But I'm no expert. Case in point: on page 7 is a quote of a passage "in a recent article" and I'm stumped. And not just me...the San Jose Public Library research librarian is stumped too. I was wondering...for the academicians in the house...shouldn't it be possible to find the article from which the quote was taken? The passage quoted is (quotation marks included): “No event is isolate; its integration with other events, its adumbration into all life and the inherency of life in it, makes the truth.”
Albie M. Davis
So happy to see this education group. Thanks for starting it, Matthew, and for putting Follett's talk to teachers at Boston University online, so I could find her "fresh life" quote so easliy. (See below.)
The student has hithero often had to be his own liaison officer between the wisdom of the past and the occurrences of today. One of the most marked characteristics of present-day teaching is that the teacher is taking over this task, is realizing that the teacher is not one who has lived and the student one who is going to live, but that both are living now, in the present, that it should be fresh life meeting fresh life. There can be no more false dichotomy than a teacher with past wisdom and student with present experience.
Jul 18, 2009
Jeff Bedolla
I'm on email notification and recently opened a tab for the Mary Parker Follett Network, after a period of being absent. And I just read the paper on the teacher-student relation. I joined the education group and want to offer this... "Follettine" research expands rapidly!
There's only been a couple of posts to the group...I've read them all. I got suggestions (inwardly) from this discussion, and a great deal as well from the paper itself.
Since my last formal activity in the network, I've been very busy in "proving the relevance" of such inspiration in daily life! (That's special to the group - not in my Network Profile!...although I suppose the assertion will be duly noted in the Activity Register).
Jeff Bedolla (on a beautiful summer morning that just became brighter!), in San Jose, California..
Aug 4, 2011
Jeff Bedolla
Aug 8, 2011