Paul, the school was located in Ipswich, MA. At that time, it was rural. =
The main point that I was alluding to was that the ecology (1) of the=
schooling played out in our uniforms, in the playground, in the convent, in=
the church, in the concrete blocks and the steel I-beams, in the statues=
and altar, in the boys, in the girls, and in the nuns. The ecology was=
quite beyond the arrangement of desks in the classroom, as my earlier=
references, esp. to Jan, Vera, and Jay indicated, but interpenetrating=
through all in this setting. Jan pointed to historical and greater=
societal influences. Vera and Jay pointed to the scripts played out by=
people in different settings.
One fire changed all that. On-line I began to wonder, in retrospect, who=
may have liberated us from this system, who must have donated those huge=
concrete blocks and I-beams, and what were the preconditions for these acti=
ons.
(1) by ecology I mean the sense of the evolving psychological interactions=
between people mediated by their environment, as described by Bateson and=
Lang, for two instances.
Bill Barowy, Associate Professor
Lesley College, 31 Everett Street, Cambridge, MA 02138-2790=20
Phone: 617-349-8168 / Fax: 617-349-8169
http://www.lesley.edu/faculty/wbarowy/Barowy.html
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"One of life's quiet excitements is to stand somewhat apart from yourself
and watch yourself softly become the author of something beautiful."
[Norman Maclean in "A river runs through it."]