>> Are Humans Resources??
>
>As evidence that there really is a problem here, I quote the Dilbert
>cartoon from Sunday Nov. 9...
First an introduction. I am a retired educator from the public school
system with 17 years as a superintendent in one school district. I am
currently an educator trying to find my place in helping organizations,
communities and neighborhoods create a framework to better understand
their systems and those systems with which they interface. The community
is which I still work in several volunteer capacities is Greenwood, SC
which is highlighted in "The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook".
The problem we have when we try to view humans as resources, students in
school as customers, humans as anything -- is that the analogy we create
tends to become our reality over time. As a result we tend to lose touch
with the fact that humans are human beings - with all of our gifts and
talents, our warts, our inconsistencies and all of the other aspects of
our humanness that we should cherish. The analogies are useful to set a
frame for a brief conversation, but we need to always return to our common
humanity.
Jim McAbee (jimmc@emeraldis.com)
An education is what is left when you can no longer recall most of the
facts.
The Learning Connection: http://www.emeraldis.com/~jimmc
--Jim McAbee <jimmc@emeraldis.com>
Learning-org -- An Internet Dialog on Learning Organizations For info: <rkarash@karash.com> -or- <http://world.std.com/~lo/>