61. Resourcefulness
Not Resources, Resourcefulness!
Whatever your teaching ecology happens to be, wherever you are helping to “grow” young learners, here is an analogy that provides some food for thought…
Agriculture
- The further we have moved away from the source of our food, the more disconnected we have become from our bodies, the earth’s natural cycles and systems and the natural immunity, value and intelligence therein.
The further we have moved from the source of our food, physically but also mentally, the more abstract the source of our food becomes. (And look at the consequences – to the greater source which, of course, is the earth itself!)