My fifth principle follows and is drawn from William Blake. Students hear about global responsibility while being educated in institutions that often spend their budgets and invest their endowments in the most irresponsible things. The lessons being taught are those of hypocrisy and ultimately despair. Students learn, without anyone ever telling them, that they are helpless to overcome the frightening gap between ideals and reality. Finally, I propose that the way in which learning occurs is as important as the content of particular courses.
Process is important for learning.
Courses taught as lecture courses tend to induce passivity. Dissecting frogs in biology classes teaches lessons about nature that no one in polite company would verbally profess. Campus architecture is crystallized pedagogy that often reinforces passivity, monologue, domination, and artificiality. PStudents are being taught in various and subtle ways beyond the overt content of the courses. From Earth in Mind , Island Press 1994 pp12-14.