Dear Organlearners,
Rol Fessenden <76234.3636@compuserve.com> writes:
> I think this is a fascinating question if I understand it. Tthe
> overhelming opinion of organizations is negative as expressed on this
> list. So your question is absolutely the key one. If they are so bad,
> why are we -- as individuals -- investing so much in them as opposed to
> other organizations?
I agree with you, Rol. In fact, I wanted to comment on how much our
creating of organisations correspondend to our creating and using of
language. We wish to do something together.
Then suddenly, I experienced this wonderful emergence: the relationship
between the age of an organisation and the spirit of learning keeping it
together. The oldest secular organisations in the world are our
universities - more than 700 years old. Religious organisations which
place a great emphasis on learning go back even much futher. The synagogue
(rabbi=teacher) is probably the oldest organisation in the world! To
create an organisation is one thing, but to ensure its longlevity is
another thing. The LOs become the oldest.
Best wishes
--At de Lange Gold Fields Computer Centre for Education University of Pretoria Pretoria, South Africa email: amdelange@gold.up.ac.za
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