Speak'n ze Gardening?
If our languages were based entirely on ecological gardening metaphors,
everyone
would be naturally ecological. You are what you think.
Speak
only in the language of Gardening.
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Translator:
| Discipline/ Field/ Profession: |
Input | ~ | Output |
| medical: | ~ | ||
| military: | ~ | ||
| sports: | ~ | ||
| family squabbles: |
~ | ||
| economics: | ~ | ||
| ~ | |||
| ~ | |||
| ~ |
Grammar:
Do we still have faith in grammar?
Does "Subject verb object." => presumption of uni-directional
causality (linear thinking)?
Quantum Psychology suggests Quantum Physics is learned better by
considering psychology (as a familiar ground for an analogy) than by studying
physics theory directly. As the book demonstrates, language (at least
English) is fully capable of including systems-thinking.
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Everything
I Need to Know I Learned in Home Ec / Family Studies
Home Economics courses are always perceived as 'bird' courses (for bird-brains),
but when we teach our Home Ec course, prospective Doctors, Lawyers, Engineers,
CEOs and Prime Ministers clamber to get in because we apply skills developed in
those professions to ordinary home activities, such that we see how specialized
skills are inherently useful in our homes, how our home activities already
contain the specialized skills we learn in professional schools, and how our
homes are microcosms and case studies for the larger world.
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