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"Everything is dependent on everything else,
everything is connected, nothing is separate."
- Georges Ivanovitch Gurdjieff
"We are all part of the ONE - one world of
diversity but incredible interconnected. It is just plain irrevocable truth
that an injury to one injures all; that a threat to justice anywhere is a
threat to justice everywhere. This is now understood by psychology, quantum
physics, evolutionary biology, planetary theology, etc., and simply confirms
the "golden rule" of doing unto others as you would have them do to you, a
principle adhered to by every world religion in their own respective languages
with a similar grasp of this basic truth." - S Brian Wilson
"Can anything really be
understood in isolation
from the rest of the universe?
We explore reality by dis-organizing it:
isolating pieces, eliminating variables, shielding outside influences. Thus the
entomologist brings dead "specimens" back to the lab; the geologist brings back
rock samples; the physiologist dissects cadavers and the chemist seeks purified
substances purged of the chaotic contamination of
the world.
Such methods are, however,
incapable of apprehending anything that exists only in relationship, anything
that, when you disassemble the whole and isolate the parts, is no longer there.
What are those things that exist only in relationship, that are
properties of wholes and not of parts?
Here are a few examples:
consciousness, spirit, sacredness, life,
beauty, selfhood, divinity, love,
truth, emotion, purpose,
transcendence, will; in short, all
that makes us human." - Charles
Eisenstein
"That the connected series of things might
intellectually remain in the Light of the
Father; that the elements of the
World might continue their course in mutual
attraction."
- The Chaldæan Oracles of
Zoroaster, translated by W. Wynn
Westcott
Connect
is defined as:
To join or fasten together.
To hit or
play a ball successfully.
Establish a rapport or
relationship.
To associate or consider as
related.
Make a logical
or causal connection.
Establish communication with
someone.
Fasten, or put together two or more pieces.
To establish
a rapport or relationship; relate.
To join to or by means of a
communications circuit.
To plug
in (an electrical cord or device) to an outlet.
To be scheduled so as to
provide continuing service, as
between airplanes or buses.
To associate (an
individual or
thing, or one's self) with another
individual,
thing, business, or affair.
"If you really want to
evaluate a teacher you have to walk into a
classroom, sit down and listen.
I'm convinced that when you're
listening to good teaching, you hear a familiar
refrain.
It goes like this: What is the connection between ...
and ... ?
So much of good teaching is about
taking strands of information and looking for connections and broadening
the context.
Endless test preparation has the opposite effect.
Endless test preparation shrinks the context.
Endless test
preparation reduces inquiry.
Endless test preparation mitigates against
Socratic dialogue and can drain much of
the passion from teaching and learning.
The irony is that young
students begin by making
connections.
The challenge for teachers is to build on that foundation, to
encourage students to seek
connections between, say, fractions and percentages, or between
lobbying and legislation, or between
Copernicus and
Darwin, or between the main characters in
two different novels.
I like to ask my
students why the food in India, Africa
and Mexico is so much spicier than the food in Ireland, Iceland and Finland.
Typically, lots of theories are advanced and
eventually (and perhaps with some guidance) students use their knowledge of geography, chemistry, botany and
economics to make the connection that
will lead to an explanation.
We teachers call this "thinking across the curriculum." Once
students start seeing how and why
seemingly disparate topics are related, and more important, once they start
looking for and making those connections, then the
teacher will have performed that special
kind of classroom alchemy - turning passive receivers of
knowledge into active participants in the learning
process.
The answer to the spice question: First, spices grow in
equatorial regions; and second in hotter climates, food rots more quickly, so
spices are needed to preserve the food and, later, to mask the rancid smell." -
Jeff Lantos
To narrate
or tell.
Give an account of.
Be in a relationship
with.
To ally by connection or
kindred.
Make a logical or causal
connection.
To have connection, relation, or reference.
To react in
response, especially favorably.
To establish or
demonstrate a connection between.
To bring into
or link in logical or
natural association.
To have or
establish a reciprocal relationship; interact.
To be in a relationship
with, have a relationship to, bring into relation with.
A cuff
link.
The state of being connected.
An
association; a relationship.
A fastener that
serves to join or link.
A connecting
element; a tie or bond.
A unit in a
connected series of units.
To make a
logical or causal connection.
One of the rings or loops forming a
chain.
A rod or lever transmitting
motion in a
machine.
A unit in a transportation
or communications
system.
A causal, parallel, or
reciprocal relationship; a correlation.
A winding
of a river; also, the
earth along such a winding; a
meander.
A hill
or ridge, as a sand hill, or a
wooded or turfy bank between cultivated fields.
To
connect or unite with a link or as with a link; to join; to attach; to unite;
to couple.
A unit of length used in surveying,
equal to 0.01 chain, 7.92 inches, or about 20.12
centimeters.
An interconnecting circuit between
two or more locations for the purpose of transmitting and
receiving data.
A segment of
text or a graphical item that serves as a
cross-reference between parts of a hypertext document
or between files or hypertext documents. Also called
hotlink, hyperlink.
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