Dear Organlearners,
Rol Fessenden <Rf9@compuserve.com> writes:
>I hesitate to participate in this thread for fear of being
>perceived as a cynic. But I have to say, that if we are
>discussing Senge's vision of a LO, then almost trivially,
>most higher ed institutions do not meet the test.
>For example --
(snip - analises of 5 disciplines in Higher Ed.)
>Sorry to be such a drudge, but last I knew these
>were the five disciplines of LOs, and at least based
>on my experience -- 5 years in one, 25 years in close
>association, and 10 years in education reform -- the
>areas where passion for these disciplines exists are
>notable for their rarity.
Greetings Rol,
As we would have said in my own mother tongue Afrikaans (with an
"elementary" translation in [..])
Wat het oor jou lewe vandag geloop?
[What has over your life today walked?]
You have made one extremely important observation among all the other
equally sharp observations.
"...the areas where passion for these disciplines
exists are notable for their rarity."
You refer to "areas". I think of the leaders in these "areas" whose
"spiritual fuel tanks" have become empty. They do not know why and they do
not know any more how to fill the tanks up and keep them full. We have to
guide them into a Systems Thinking which will enable them to the art
(theory and practice) of regenerating their "spiritual fuel tanks".
But do we have such a Systems Thinking available ourselves? And if such a
Systems Thinking is available, might we not be struck with blindness
ourselves so that we will not be able to recognise it? The Bible, for
example, gives some significant answers to these questions, should we
replace Systems Thinking with "Belief".
Best wishes
--At de Lange <amdelange@gold.up.ac.za> Snailmail: A M de Lange Gold Fields Computer Centre Faculty of Science - University of Pretoria Pretoria 0001 - Rep of South Africa
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