Solutions

Increasingly education is gearing toward wide scale social reform of ecological and human dominance of the natural world. The goal of alternative education is to use education as a tool to transform societies to become aware of the need to support alternatives for sustainability. What is required then is to further question our existing approaches and continue to practice alternatives.

“…prepare students to solve dilemmas and larger problems in the world by not isolating them to particular disciplines.” –Source Richard Heinberg Muse letter(Source this-------

"I agree that changing Mental Models/people's paradigms for how things are-- is the most effective place to effect change in a complex system. The challenge is that people hold on to their mental models fiercely - it is what they know. Their thinking can be evolved if they come to the change themselves, experientially. This requires learner centered education." John Sterman, M.I.T. System Dynamicist


"We will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught." Baba Dioum, Senegalese Ecologist

"Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail. It won't fatten the dog." Mark Twain Speech 11/23/1900

"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe." -H. G. Wells

"If you plan for a year, plant a seed. If for ten years, plant a tree.If for a hundred years, teach the people. When you sow a seed once, you will reap a single harvest. When you teach the people, you will reap a hundred harvests." Kuan Chung (645 B.C.)