Oh my, this is so good. Jay Tompt thank you for writing these words and sharing your thoughts, feelings, and perspectives in this clear, honest, and important examination of our shared current situation (and the opportunities it presents) for Schumacher College, and the global community and network I love so dearly. All of what you’ve shared here resonates deeply with me, especially these last closing words:
“Schumacher College lies at the heart of this worldwide community, at least as ‘the source’. EF Schumacher was a progenitor of what is a growing movement for economic change, especially to those movements and models that bear an easily recognisable family resemblance. His words are often repeated within the walls of the Old Postern – ‘an ounce of practice is generally worth about a ton of theory.’ The work of this century is about that – putting into practice ‘regenerative economic/social/culture change’, from the bottom up, top down, side to side. Pragmatic, critical, willing to question our ideological biases and presumptions, pluralistic, transdisciplinary – in our best moments, what goes on at Schumacher College is unique in the world and powerful.
This is how I have treated this in class, as an immersive case seen and experienced from the inside out. Yep, I could be biased by my own desires, of course. But imagine the possibilities, now: a worldwide community of educators and entrepreneurs aligned around this kind of education for change, for the ‘great transformation’ called for in this century; an emerging network of cooperative and community-owned Schumacher College-like platforms delivering courses accessible now to thousands, multilingual online sessions complemented by local residentials in many places; a campus nestled in abundant convivial relationships stretching across borders and boundaries of all kinds.
These kinds of conversations are happening now. Let’s see what comes next.”
Educator at Lubbock ISD
1 个月Thank you all so much!! It’s been an amazing journey building this amazing learning space from ground up…literally!! ????