enquirers united in a common educational endeavour to improve the world; improvement would be effected through the open dialogue of compassionate individuals who are aiming to reach intersubjective understanding. Such a view of wholeness is grounded in the idea of a generative order - a form that is capable of reproducing itself infinitely through a limitless number of original creative transformations. In terms of educational theory, we need to acknowledge that the currently dominant propositional form is inadequate for helping us to understand the reality of a world view of the wholeness and indivisibility of consciousness. While we need to acknowledge the value of the propositional form and the incremental series of accumulating singularities which characterise most scientific and technical developments, we need to acknowledge it as embedded within a more powerful generative order. The whole notion of generative transformational order is one of coming into being, where the future and the past are contained within the ever-present now. Proposed solution 3 - the need for a reconceputalisation of the university as existing in the lives of people rather than in institutional contexts Richard Bernstein (1991) speaks of the power of dialogue in working towards the establishment of a good social order, in which people suspend judgement one of the other in order to reach a common basis from which understanding might grow. In a dialogical encounter, he says, ' ... one begins with the assumption that the other has something to say to us and to contribute to our