Just be ready to discuss the importance of Irish metaphors in transforming a community for the 21st century. Chuck broke the sound barrier. Peter Senge introduced five key principles for learning communities. One was the concept of the need to think systemically. But our educational system is based on linear cause and effect thinking and evaluation.
Debate is the standard way to come to an answer, and any answer is based on a standard.
We are not taught to see patterns, shapes, connections, relationships and correlations. But if things change constantly, don't we need a way to learn how key ideas, factors and issues relate to one another. Don't we need a way to understand how to identify cornerstone ideas, find their connections, and generate new ways to think about a changing society. Prasad has given us a new tool to break the barrier of linear thinking. And he offers us a process and a product at the same time to learn how to think this way.