Jean Houston on a mythical school.

Yes, we must continue to learn to read and write and cipher, but we also need to embrace an education for liberating the ability to imagine, to dream, and to expand the limits of the possible. We require education at its edges, education that guides us through the munificence of our capacities and inspires us to become stewards of this most critical time in human history. My life has been a search for the education that would nurture this goal and make it happen. Perhaps I will find it in the future.

A toolbox of processes for community work from the Co-intellegence Institute

Centre for Innovation in Management presents a set of resources on citizen engagement.

The Hero’s Journey

The major stages of the hero’s journey defined.

Why study The Hero’s Journey? Why learn a pattern that dates from before recorded history? The answer is simple: we should study it because it’s the pattern of human experience, of our experience, and we will live it for the rest of our lives.

In a sense, every challenge or change we face in life is a Journey: every love found, every love lost, every birth or death, every move to a new job, school or city: every situation which confronts us with something new or which forces us to re-evaluate our thinking, behavior or perspective.

The journey is a process of self-discovery and self-integration, of maintaining balance and harmony in our lives. As with any process of growth and change, a journey can be confusing and painful, but it brings opportunities to develop confidence, perspective and understanding.

Understanding the Journey pattern can help us understand the literature us read, the movies us see, and the experiences which shape your life. By recognizing the Journey’s stages and how they function, we will develop a sense of the flow of our own experience and be better able to make decisions and solve problems. More importantly, we will begin to recognize our own points of passage and respect the significance they have for us.

12.409 Hands-On Astronomy: Observing Stars and Planets, Course Home

My first MIT course!

MIT Open Course Ware is an amazing sharing of resources, lecture notes, texts and syllibi from a variety of MIT courses. Learn along at home! No nasty moves to Cambridge! No stifling tuition fees or rejection letters!