There is so much going on in my head after last weeks SingularityUNZ Summit that there are many, many posts in the making - I have decided that rather than writing one singular post, I will try and get down some thoughts as I process them.
Today's thought?
"Re-spect abundance... If you look again you might see that there enough resources for everybody" - Tiago Mattos
Firstly, I loved Tiago's definition of re-spect - to look again:
Years of asking my students what they thought or meant by "respect each other and the environment" and I had never once heard this meaning.
Secondly, Tiago's talk about abundance models vs scarcity models.
Scarcity Model - based in fear, competition for resources and a self perpetuating cycle of "we need more!", stock-piling resources.
Abundance model - It starts with a belief there are enough resources to go around everybody - building confidence in the face of fear and then making your resources more available within the system, leading to more confidence and more available resources.
Throughout the summit I was viewing with an education lens - and this talk especially resonated with me about education as a system. Is our current education system based around a scarcity model or an abundance model?
I will let you think about that....
My parting shot for this evening is another of Tiago's quotes
"I would rather face a new question in a world of abundance than face old answers in a world of scarcity."
