Re: Challenging Assumptions in your discipline
> "revolution" means going around in circles; > when you go around in a circle you eventually get back to where you started; > isn't that revolting? > > Depends on the frame of the reference. Take one in which the revolution is an uplifting spiral, never repeating itself, always doing it one step better. Eva [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FW Re: POST -INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICs
Thomas Lunde: >It is I who must apologize for being so sanctimonious, I was out of line. >After I sent it, I later re-read it, to late to retract it. > >I have reviewed my last four or five posts and its time for a reality check >- idealism is fine, self righteousness is out of line. No need for an apology. I was quite deliberately rude in return. I actually enjoy being rude, and will take the opportunity if it comes. Besides, your posting kind of hit home. If this is how I'm perceived, perhaps this is what I've become. I have been extremely lucky in my life. I was born to dirt-poor parents who came to Canada from eastern Europe when the Great Depression began. My parents experienced grinding poverty when I was a young child. But by the time I reached adulthood, World War II had come and gone and had created an era of seemingly boundless opportunity. You want a job? All you need to do is apply. You want to go to university? All you need to do is get your credits and away you go. There's plenty of work during summer break and even over the Christmas holidays to keep you there. When I graduated with a baccalaureate I had no less than six firm job offers in hand and could have had more if I had wanted them. I picked a job, did a graduate degree part-time, pursued a career in and out of government for thirty years, quit that, then pursued work as a consultant for the past ten years and am now, probably, mostly retired. And yes, I go to church and pay my bills (though rarely on time). I recognize that the world is now a very different place from the one I entered as a young adult. I have three adult kids, all well educated. They work, but it would be misleading to say that they are 'pursuing careers' in the same sense as I was when I was their age. There is almost no opportunity for upward mobility in their jobs, nor are they sure of having an adequate income when they retire. As adults, their standard of living is lower than it was when they were children and lived in a nice suburban home complete with a backyard swimming pool. I have a twelve year old daughter by a second marriage. She is a dreamy, impractical child whose real world exists among bugs under rocks in our backyard. I wonder what will become of her in a world that is hardening into something that is less than humane. I look at the hardening world and wonder what I can do about it. What can I, who has been so fortunate, give back? I am too old to enter into perpetual rants like the Maude Barlows of this world, and besides ranting has always held little appeal for me. Whether because of temperament or training, I cannot help seeing all issues as being multi-faceted and consisting of both goods and bads. I will continue to analyze and try to understand the world, but I must now recognize that I can make only a small contribution and that there are many people who are better at it than I am. I can be of direct service, and this is the route I am increasingly taking. I'm under no illusion that this will make a major difference, but it could help a little. Best regards, Ed Weick
Life-long education and other things.
Hello! I have been away for a long time now. And I will go on writing about the things that I used to write about. I have written several times about the plans to transform at least 10% of the paid working hours of everybody into education. There is now a study or report about this work on the web, for those who read Norwegian. It is to be found at URL:http://odin.dep.no/nou/. It is nou1997:25, and called "Ny kompetanse. There is a paper version of this report too. The report is made by a group established by the government. I have got it, but I have not yet read it. Among other things must new types of pedagogy be developed that is different from those used in traditional school. The leader of the Confederation of trade unions, Yngve Haagensen, says that this will be one of the most important issues at the collective bargainings this spring. In many European countries they go for shorter work weeks. In Norway the trade unions say that only parents with children and other persons that take care of people who cannot make it on their own ought to have shorter work weeks. The ordinary thing shall be that the workers take more and more control over their own working time by transfering it to time for education and development according to their own wishes. Looks nice to me! What do you think? Should the workers go for shorter workweeks or try to take control over their paid working hours and use them for their own learning and development? This will be coming slowly. The idea about this came at a time when the unemployment rate in Norway was up to 10%, but today the unemployment rate is hardly 4%. One reason to this idea was to create new jobs for the unemployed, but today they are rather few. But that does not mean that this idea is put away, only that the implementation might be a bit more slowly. My old email address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] is gone. It was a BBS that I was running as a hobby to learn about Linux, but today I only see that computer a few times each month, so I have closed that BBS down. All the best from Tor Forde email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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