Worth Quoting

I'm going to do some paraphrasing now of a few of my favorite ideas from the inquiry conference this week. Field studies students from the past year reported on their experiences and focused on specific research and experience topics. So far I have a few unexpanded notes and plan to expand my thoughts on them through the weekend.

• Is the blending of Western and Indian traditions causing a tradition to die or is it the natural course of history, tradition and people?
• Meaning making is a process, not just a final draft
• How will technology solve our education problems? (How is it inhibiting education?)
• The general rules and knowledge from school simply can't be applied directly to the broad range of people in the world, working with people is a case by case situation 
• My additional thought on the above - I had a hairdresser once who told me she had to learn all the rules of hair cutting before she could break the rules, but it's breaking the rules that makes her a good stylist because everyone has a different head and different desires, (school = rules have to be learned, going out into the world to do something = time to use that tool kit but break the rules).
• Visit a place and don't take pictures the first time - allow yourself time to experience it and then reconstruct the experience yourself.
• Getting out of pop history gets you closer to the truth - closer only because what is really known as true in history?