In the end, a learning community is a compass, not a map. It is messy but, like jazz, a subtle order and rhythm exists underneath. It's not all figured out and that is half the beauty. In a learning community, a Renaissance spirit rises the scientist lives with the artist within and the artist lives with the scientist within. It sees a tomato as fruit and genetic diversity and seductive icon because it includes people who think and feel safe, whose thoughts and feelings count for something.
Time is short.
I think we all feel the potential of our new millennium. E.B. White wrote that true democracy is a moral imperative that requires our immediate attention, like the act of shaving to meet a train. That imperative is very much alive today. Sign up for the eHub information exchange email newsletter. Contact Fred Mednick Ed.