Connectivity: Spike Hall's RU WeblogNews, clips, comments on knowledge, knowledge-making, education, weblogging, philosophy, systems and ecology.Teaching: Your Thing- October 12, 2006 Summary: My move into teaching was propelled by my first reading of Martin Buberbase 's I and Thou .One core, resonant idea at the center: our transactions with others glow with moral purpose. Buber notes that if we treat others as an instruments in our own, self-centered life plan, we are OEitbase '-ing those others, reducing each into a set of qualities that are valued only as far as they help in our own life plan, like puppets in a Punch and Judy play. Buber offered a deeply argued other...http://radio.weblogs.com/0106698/2006/10/12.html#a336 |