<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; "><span>Hi Michael,</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; "><span><br></span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; "><span>You said: "</span><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; ">just excited myself with a study on the behavior of 3 year old kids in</span><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; "> </span></div><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; ">tests that were also conducted with various kinds of monkeys... in </span><br style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; "><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; ">essence it showed very
clearly that cooperation, helping each other, </span><br style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; "><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; ">working together on complex taks was apparently "natural" to humans age </span><br style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; "><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; ">3 (unlike for the monkeys). My serious hunch, call it conviction or </span><br style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; "><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; ">certainty, is that humans not only have developed these characteristics </span><br style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; "><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; ">over I dont know how many zillions of years but </span><span style="font-family:
'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-weight: bold; ">humans have also created <br>all kinds of organisations and processes (instruments of control) to <br>definitely suppress or even eradicate these natural capabilities human <br></span><div style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; "><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-weight: bold; font-size: 12pt; ">infants show at age 3.</span><span>"</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; "><span><br></span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; "><span>I believe that the main organization humans have created to kill the kind of cooperation (and creativity) that children have at the age of 3 is the "School System". </span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; "><span><br></span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; "><span>Ivan
Illich said that in his "Deschooling Society" (</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deschooling_Society" style="font-size: 12pt; ">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deschooling_Society</a><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">) as well as Ken Robinson in his Ted Talk </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deschooling_Society" style="font-size: 12pt; ">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deschooling_Society</a><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">.</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; "><br></span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">Regards from a Sunday without sun in Lisbon</span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; "><br></span></div><div style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">Artur </span></div><div style="font-family:
verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; "><span><br></span></div> <div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; "> <div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; "> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Michael M Pannwitz <mmpanne@boscop.org><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> World wide Open Space Technology email list <oslist@lists.openspacetech.org> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Saturday, March 3, 2012 11:34 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [OSList] Bi-lingual open space<br> </font> </div> <br>
Dear Harrison,<br>just excited myself with a study on the behavior of 3 year old kids in <br>tests that were also conducted with various kinds of monkeys... in <br>essence it showed very clearly that cooperation, helping each other, <br>working together on complex taks was apparently "natural" to humans age <br>3 (unlike for the monkeys). My serious hunch, call it conviction or <br>certainty, is that humans not only have developed these characteristics <br>over I dont know how many zillions of years but <span style="font-weight: bold;">humans have also created <br>all kinds of organisations and processes (instruments of control) to <br>definitely suppress or even eradicate these natural capabilities human <br>infants show at age 3.</span> So, my conclusion is, that its a good idea to <br>expand space for selforganisation, or put it differently, step back, let <br>individuals and groups figure out the stuff that I and many of us think <br>we have to
organise to "facilitate" them into "getting it".<br>Tell you the truth, I am one of the great facilitators and unlearning <br>has been a real challenge. In fact, having some young (compared to me <br>with 72) os-workers in the os-teams that keep telling me to step back, <br>take a nap, go for a walk, read a book has been wonderful medicine for me.<br>Cheers from Berlin where I am looking forward to the London WOSonOS in <br>October....<br>mmp<br><br>-------</div><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;" class="yui_3_2_0_19_133077758452161"><br><br><br> </div> </div> </div></body></html>