http://www.staffordshirehoard.org.uk/about
Such beautiful, wonderful, intricate workmanship and who made it, used it etc, is not yet known and may never be.
I wondered idly if anyone hundreds of years hence will know what Conductive Education is or was, or anything about it, wonder what conductors did, or be able to find real accurate information about it.
When I got home I looked at Facebook.
Today arguments abound about whether its 'therapy' 'pedagogy' 'a sort of physiotherapy' done by conductors or therapists. At the moment there is a thread on Andrew Sutton's facebook page about this and how conductors are implementing their profession in the US under the rules and regulations concerning teaching there.
Its a shame that a social networking site is used for such serious and important discussions where it can get lost amongs the effemural statemts on sleep loss and weekend partying.
Even so, I hope this shows that more conductors will stand up for what they do, what its called, not just leave it to a few, that more will let the world know what they are doing and how, preparing to leave a lasting legacy of what is real and accurate.
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I accidently removed Andrew's comment on this posting and am re-posting it. Sorry, Andrew!
I saw some of the hoard when it first came out of the ground. Impressive relics, even though they were is such terrible condition. I gather that the display at Litchfield cathedral displays at least some of them in a partially restored state, and that remarkably beautiful they are too.
But still relics, dead, bereft of function or relevance in the world of today.
Why go forward all the way to 2211 for a historical perspective on Conductive Education? Given that of course no one can answer the question that you pose, one may be fairly certain that not a trace of CE as we know it (whatever that may be!) is exceedingly unlikely to be found anywhere. Not even an echo. And if perchance some fragmentary relic should turn up, what possible function or relevance might it have in that to us unknowable world?
CE is a living, social process, meaningless and unpreservable in the form of fragmentary relics... and one already begins to see. But a vital characteristic of living organisms is that they reproduce, providing the possibility of evolving to survive (as species) in response to environmental change, leading if successful to emergence of new species. And so it goes.
Biological evolution takes a long time (though extinction can happen a lot quicker!). Social evolution can happen fast (and social extinction may be very fast indeed).
So what kind of existence holds out the best chance for a future for CE? As relic or as evolution?
I do not think that we need wait for 2211 for the answer. How about 2021?
Onwards and upwards!
Andrew
Wholly coincidental, but...
ttp://www.conductive-world.info/2011/08/finance-and-economics.html
Andrew
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