Dry Stone Walls

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I was  speaking with Peter Skelton who is a Lecturer at Bega Campus who’s been using Audacity to create what you can listen to below.

Complete with a hip hop intro. / ending
Enough to rattle the purists who say podcasts needed to be polished roadshows.

The significance of the stone walls metaphor will of course be evident to those who I’ve spoken to lately at team visits. Peter and I spoke what appeared to others to be in tongues. After all…… who would really want to build a stone wall or a mud brick house these days ?

Whats wrong with being able to reach up and touch the ceiling ? Drive for hours to sit in one spot, conversing in symbols with millions who for the best part of our lives remain faceless ?

We are so often lost in seeking ‘perfect’ walls in our communities, considering each angle and assembling things so that they will be secure, solid, polished and complete that we lose something in the process.

Perhaps we lose the magic of the process itself. In an effort to keep our sheep from migrating from place to place, in choosing the best pastures and sharing in the resource we build ever increasingly smaller confines within which to feed.

Caged chooks. Intensive feedlots.

Rememebering the key ingredients that makes education work for learners are bridges.