Terry Elliott has been one of my off and on teachers for a very long time, and it’s made me very happy of late that he’s been more active in his blogging and commenting. He writes with depth and passion, and there’s almost always a take away idea that makes me think.
“I have been accused in the past of making too much of metaphor and the coming shift, of being apocalyptic, of failing to recognize that change happens in “connected†and understandable ways. Perhaps I am guilty of being too much of a homeless prophet pushing my shopping cart around the margins of academe. I accept that, but I also know in my heart if not in my head that the learning world has already changed in ways that are complexly strange and quite beyond our capacity to control. I want to see it turn out well. I want to see at least part of that mystery unfold.”
Amen to that…
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You way the hell too kind. Thanks.
I always think that because change is hard, that sometimes the messengers are met with resistance and head-shaking at first. Sometimes one has to have the quality of respectful persistence, I think, to help shift the paradigms.