This blog is dedicated to sharing the concept that our hands are essential to learning- that we engage the world and its wonders, sensing and creating primarily through the agency of our hands. We abandon our children to education in boredom and intellectual escapism by failing to engage their hands in learning and making.
Sunday, February 03, 2008
I was intrigued today, listening to a radio program on NPR in which author Will Self was interviewed about his book, Psychogeography: Disentangling the Modern Conundrum of Psyche and Place. Does it make sense to you that how we perceive our physical reality is dependent on the means through which we experience it?... that a walker might live in a completely different contextual landscape than a bicyclist, a rider in a car, or a passenger in a plane? This would be a no-brainer for those who know themselves and the functioning of their intelligence as being more than just a brain... for those who know wisdom in their bodies and in their communities, and who just might know that to fully know, one must slow down, remove the barriers of technology and plunge themselves confidently and consciously into the icy waters of physical reality. So go for it. Take a walk. See what you see and feel what it means to pass slowly and quietly on foot. Report back. Some might be interested in knowing that there is a real world out there.
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