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In a message dated 5/27/05 12:09:59 AM, jotoepfer@boscop.de writes:<BR>
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– any ideas?)<BR>
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Michael and Jo;<BR>
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Yes, call it "education", prosaic as that may seem. But, consider: <BR>
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Training is for </FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Geneva" FAMILY="SANSSERIF" SIZE="2"><I>sameness</I></FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Geneva" FAMILY="SANSSERIF" SIZE="2">. 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</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Geneva" FAMILY="SANSSERIF" SIZE="2"><I> training</I></FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Geneva" FAMILY="SANSSERIF" SIZE="2">.<BR>
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Education is for </FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Geneva" FAMILY="SANSSERIF" SIZE="2"><I>difference. </I></FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Geneva" FAMILY="SANSSERIF" SIZE="2">If you want your colleagues in the event to be able to handle difference afterward, then you will </FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Geneva" FAMILY="SANSSERIF" SIZE="2"><I>educate.</I></FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Geneva" FAMILY="SANSSERIF" SIZE="2"> 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.<BR>
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I hasten to add two things---one is not necessarily superior or inferior to the other. <BR>
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First, the reality of the situation dictates what it needs for the necessary result. Thus sometimes you will want training, sometimes education. <BR>
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Second, this separation of </FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Geneva" FAMILY="SANSSERIF" SIZE="2"><I>training</I></FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Geneva" FAMILY="SANSSERIF" SIZE="2"> and </FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Geneva" FAMILY="SANSSERIF" SIZE="2"><I>education</I></FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Geneva" FAMILY="SANSSERIF" SIZE="2"> 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.<BR>
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Sincerely,<BR>
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Paul Everett</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" FACE="Geneva" FAMILY="SANSSERIF" SIZE="2"></FONT></HTML>
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