Aims of education in SunWALK:
“I have come strongly to believe that it is the cultivation of imagination which should be the chief aim of education, and in which our present systems of education most conspicuously fail, where they do fail.”
Warnock, Mary, (1976), Imagination, London: Faber & Faber Ltd.
The aims of education, via the SunWALK [...]
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This is a short description of the ‘whole’ to which all postings to the site are more or less related. This is my context for the reading of all of my postings. Readers of course each bring have their own contexts via their personal histories and world-views!
CONTEXTUAL QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
3 Questions & suggested answers [...]
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Alan Anderson some time ago wrote an interesting article about panentheism. He says that panentheism is not;
….. pantheism (all is God), but panentheism, a term devised by Karl C. F. Krause (1781-1832) to describe his thought. It is best known for its use by Charles Hartshorne and recently by Matthew Fox. Panentheism [...]
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The nearest I have ever come across to a satisfactory definition of God is as follows;
God is a circle whose centre is everywhere, whose circumference is nowhere.
Anonymous, ‘The Book of the Twenty-four Philosophers‘ (12thC)
Of course it isn’t really a definition - it’s more like a Zen Master’s ‘pointing’ - but what a pointing!
Of course [...]
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I therefore sought to outline a philosophy of universal integralism. Put differently, I sought a world philosophy—or an integral philosophy—that would believably weave together the many pluralistic contexts of science, morals, aesthetics, Eastern as well as Western philosophy, and the world’s great wisdom traditions. Not on the level of details—that is finitely impossible; but on [...]
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From Crackle: Tim Williams Novel
From the great Crackle site.
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Willard Wigan creates sculpture in the eye of a needle or on the head of a pin.
Sugar (?) and…..
Liberty’s statue
Is this thinker’s thoughts small or large?
Elvis on his pin-head.
Visitors to Willard Wigan’s exhibitions view his work through a microsope!
The match.
The Titanic
The Wizard of Oz
The Six wives and Henry VIII+
Of course ’skill isn’t art’ the [...]
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Below are a collection of notes that I have collected over the years relevant to the title of this post. This is to answer a request from a student. I don’t have time at present to write a proper piece. However it is important to say that these subjects are at the [...]
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