An experience is more real than a thing

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originally uploaded by Dr B.

Here we are three friends (plus one behind the camera) as we are about to go into a French restaurant (Chartiers, Paris). And it was a happy and memorable time. What did we learn - well, it is hard to say. I cannot be specific, but learning did take place. Was it worth while? - yes, we opened up to NEW experiences. The routine became a highly thought out process. We had to become/ we were AWARE of simply living. (Recall SOL and the three levels of awareness...) Because we had the CD of pictures, and there was this sense of having had a good time and wanting to share the images, I find I am learning how to post pictures to a blog -at the picture hosting site http://flickr.com. So that is some learning that has EMERGED from the experience. Immersive experiences are a powerful SPUR to learning.

Chartier is a popular restaurant unchanged from 1895. A living museum - a testimony to the "belle epoque" and "fin de siecle Paris". I am NOW trying to find out why, when you click on the image of the group users get a bigger picture but end up at www.flickr.com !!

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originally uploaded by Dr B.

Life is so experimental! Will this appear on my blog or won't it? Talk about being a personal scientist!
Brian
(from inside www.flickr.com)

Choose and then be locked in.

Dr Brian and His Thoughts

Choose and then be locked in.

Students choose which Universitie they would like to go to and the course they wish to study. All very self-organising.

Then they arrive and find everything is preplanned. "This is what you are going to do," they are told.

Just how do universities manage to switch so suddenly from allowing potential students to be self-organised and then the minute students enter the university the approach becomes VERY other-organised?

Strange.