Thursday, November 29, 2007

What's in a "School?"

University.Look at the name. It means universal! So, what should a place like that be all about? Ask yourself this: Is your school a university?

universe ~ cosmos ~ kosmos

connection maybe?

“universitas magistrorum et scholarium” - in the academic definition. a “community of masters and scholars.” now, the word master in this context is one who is highly proficient and skilled with scholarly work. and, what does scholar mean? “Of a school.” So we have a general definition that we basically already understand.

A place where individuals learn to be masters of the intellect. Where our minds are taught to be highly proficient. Ask yourself this: Does a “university” assist in teaching us how to cultivate self-reliance, autonomy, not only good reason but an overall dynamic and intelligent mind? Intelligence has various definitions, lines and stages. A good school then, would attempt to cultivate multiple forms of intelligence. To develop scholars, masters across many different kinds – all kinds of intelligence. Universal intelligence. Hence, a university.

Now, ask yourself this one more time: Is your school a university?


2 comments:

Eric said...

Hello,

Great blog, and well done on getting the school to come around. I look forward to reading KOSMOS.

My name is Michael. I am the E.D of the Integral Research Group (IRG). Among other projects, we webmaster a new online community of integral thinkers called: OPEN SOURCE INTEGRAL.

If Wilber created the Integral Operating System (IOS), we hope to co-create an "open source" version - OSI.

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M~

Eric said...

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