Education
" Dissecting frogs in biology classes teaches
lessons about nature that no one would verbally profess. Campus architecture is crystallized pedagogy
that often reinforces passivity, monologue, domination, and artificiality. My point is simply that
students are being taught in various and subtle ways beyond the content of courses.
AN ASSIGNMENT FOR THE CAMPUS
If education is to be measured against the standard of sustainability, what can be done? I would like to
make four propsals. First, I would like to propose that you engage in a campus-wide dialogue about
the way you conduct your business as educators. Does four years here make your graduates better
planetary citizens or does it make them, in Wendell Berry's words, "itinerant professional vandals"?
Does this college contribute to the development of a sustainable regional economy or, in the name of
efficiency, to the processes of destruction?
annaabi.ee 
