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[EVERETT813 at aol.com]

In a message dated 5/27/05 12:09:59 AM, jotoepfer at boscop.de writes:


> (we feel we have to find a new word for what is called training
> – any ideas?)
> 

Michael and Jo;

Yes, call it "education", prosaic as that may seem.   But, consider: 

Training is for sameness.   If you want to have sameness every time (like in 
accounting, or quality, or routine operations, etc.), anything that is made 
into a routine, you probably want the same outcome every time, ergo: 
predictability.   Thus you will do training.

Education is for difference.  If you want your colleagues in the event to be 
able to handle difference afterward, then you will educate.   Lots of 
implications for being able to think, reason, make inferences, critically evaluate, 
etc.   Wholly different strategy.   Probably Open Space works.   I tend to use 
Socratic questioning.

I hasten to add two things---one is not necessarily superior or inferior to 
the other.   

First, the reality of the situation dictates what it needs for the necessary 
result.   Thus sometimes you will want training, sometimes education.   

Second, this separation of training and education is not original with me.   
It comes from one of my life teachers from South Africa.   Profound influence 
on my life.   He separated many meanings so that one is more clear when one 
speaks.   I have found this separation very useful in keeping focused when I 
gather a group of people together for an event.

Sincerely,

Paul Everett

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