It seems innovation means to most minds doing something to someone else. In that sense I find it undemocratic and eventually destructive. Analogously, is a "discussion" that is foisted onto learners in Blackboard, for example, a real discussion or just a bunch of atomic responses to a prompt? The latter I think. Innovation is not static and most definitely not a thing. It is only innovative insofar as it is connected with or against something. Otherwise it is just another irrelevance like so much reform has been in education over the last two generations.

innovation seems like a catalytic action. It is not innovation unless there is some kind of response, push back, acquiescence, reaction to or toward.

OED entry

innovation

(ɪnəʊˈveɪʃən)

[ad. L. innovātiōn-em, n. of action f. innovāre to innovate: cf. F. innovation (1297 in Hatz.-Darm.).]

1. a.1.a The action of innovating; the introduction of novelties; the alteration of what is established by the introduction of new elements or forms. †Formerly const. of (the thing altered or introduced).

   1553 Brende Q. Curtius 221 b, Perdicas, whose ambicious mynde desirous of innouation, was (he sayde) to be preuented in time.    1561 T. Norton Calvin's Inst. Table Contents, It is the duty of private men to obey, and not to make innovation of states after their own will.    1597 Hooker Eccl. Pol. v. xlii. §11 To traduce him as an authour of suspitious innouation.    1614 Selden Titles Hon. 286 Thanes remained as a distinct name of dignitie, and vanisht not at the innouation of new honors.    a 1639 Webster Appius & V. v. iii, The hydra-headed multitude That only gape for innovation.    1796 Burke Corr. (1844) III. 211 It is a revolt of innovation; and thereby, the very elements of society have been confounded and dissipated.    1824 L. Murray Eng. Gram. (ed. 5) I. 65 This spirit of innovation has extended itself to other parts of grammar, and especially to the names of the Tenses.    1874 Green Sh. Hist. vii. §1 Cranmer and his colleagues advanced yet more boldly in the career of innovation.

†b.1.b Revolution (= L. novæ res). Obs.

   1596 Shakes. 1 Hen. IV, v. i. 78 Poore Discontents, Which gape, and rub the Elbow at the newes Of hurly burly Innouation.    1633 T. Stafford Pac. Hib. i. xx. (1821) 206 For the same reason of innovation, he besought them to send unto him fiue Lasts of powder with match and lead.

1. a.2.a A change made in the nature or fashion of anything; something newly introduced; a novel practice, method, etc.

   1548 Act 2 & 3 Edw. VI, c. 1 To staye Innovacions or newe rites.    1641 (title) A Discovery of the notorius Proceedings of William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury, in bringing Innovations into the Church.    1717 J. Keill Anim. Oecon. Pref. (1738) 47 This Attraction‥is no Innovation in Philosophy.    1800 Asiatic Ann. Reg., Misc. Tr. 106/1 The tribute you demand from the Hindûs‥is an innovation and an infringement of the laws of Hindustân.    a 1862 Buckle Civiliz. (1873) II. viii. 595 To them antiquity is synonymous with wisdom, and every improvement is a dangerous innovation.    1868 Freeman Norm. Conq. II. viii. 297 The sturdiest champions of Norman innovations.

†b.2.b A political revolution; a rebellion or insurrection. (= L. novæ res.) Obs.

   1601 R. Johnson Kingd. & Commw. (1603) 227 Neither doth he willingly arme them for feare of sedition and innovations.    1726 Leoni Alberti's Archit. I. 77/2 A Province so inclined to tumults and innovations.

3.3 spec. in Sc. Law. The alteration of an obligation; the substitution of a new obligation for the old: see quot.

   1861 W. Bell Dict. Law Scot. 450/1 Innovation, is a technical expression, signifying the exchange, with the creditor's consent, of one obligation for another; so as to make the second obligation come in the place of the first, and be the only subsisting obligation against the debtor, both the original obligants remaining the same.

4.4 Bot. The formation of a new shoot at the apex of a stem or branch; esp. that which takes place at the apex of the thallus or leaf-bearing stem of mosses, the older parts dying off behind; also (with pl.) a new shoot thus formed.

   1835 Lindley Introd. Bot. (1848) I. 168 Shoots which have not completed their growth have received the name of innovations, a term usually confined to mosses.    1845 Florist's Jrnl. 130 The lateral ones‥terminate a two-leaved branch, or innovation, while the central peduncle springs from the apex of the older branch.    1863 Berkeley Brit. Mosses iii. 13 One mode of branching‥is known under the name of innovations.    Ibid. Gloss. 312 Innovations, accessory branches produced generally after the fruit is perfect.

5.5 Comm. The action of introducing a new product into the market; a product newly brought on to the market.

   1939 J. A. Schumpeter Business Cycles I. iii. 84 Innovation is possible without anything we should identify as invention, and invention does not necessarily induce innovation.    1958 J. Jewkes et al. Sources Invention ix. 249 It seems impossible to establish scientifically any final conclusion concerning the relation between monopoly and innovation.    1962 E. M. Rogers Diffusion of Innovations v. 124 It matters little whether or not an innovation has a great degree of advantage over the idea it is replacing. What does matter is whether the individual perceives the relative advantage of the innovation.    1967 J. A. Allen Sci. Innovation & Industr. Prosperity ii. 8 Innovation is the bringing of an invention into widespread, practical use.‥ Invention may thus be construed as the first stage of the much more extensive and complex total process of innovation.

6.6 innovation trunk, a kind of wardrobe trunk.

   1912 Bag, Portmanteau & Umbrella Trader 20 Nov. 18/1 The Innovation Trunk Company‥makes a striking show of wardrobe trunks. They also specialise in the refitting of ordinary wardrobes according to their principle.    1913 A. Bennett Regent iii. 83 Many parcels and boxes, comprising diverse items in the equipment of a man-about-town, such as tie-clips and Innovation trunks.    1915 E. Phillpotts Angel in House i. 17 Robert and Manservant enter through the main entrance carrying Innovation trunk.

Hence innoˈvational a., of, pertaining to, or characterized by innovation; also in Comm.; innoˈvationist, one who favours innovations.

   1800 W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. VIII. 684 Writers, who bring against certain philosophic innovationists a clamorous charge of Vandalism.    1817 Bentham Plan Parl. Reform Introd. 194 A proposition so daring, so innovational.    1873 R. Black tr. Guizot's France II. xxv. 492 His kingly despotism was new, and, one might almost say, innovational.    1959 J. P. Lewis Business Conditions Analysis v. xxiv. 534 The insights of economics do not illuminate the process of innovation very much.‥ On the optimistic side of the innovational outlook, it can be argued, [etc.].    1960 L. S. Silk Research Revolution iii. 50 In the past, the United States has had three great innovational pushes.

OED entry innovation

(ɪnəʊˈveɪʃən)

[ad. L. innovātiōn-em, n. of action f. innovāre to innovate: cf. F. innovation (1297 in Hatz.-Darm.).]

1. a.1.a The action of innovating; the introduction of novelties; the alteration of what is established by the introduction of new elements or forms. †Formerly const. of (the thing altered or introduced).

   1553 Brende Q. Curtius 221 b, Perdicas, whose ambicious mynde desirous of innouation, was (he sayde) to be preuented in time.    1561 T. Norton Calvin's Inst. Table Contents, It is the duty of private men to obey, and not to make innovation of states after their own will.    1597 Hooker Eccl. Pol. v. xlii. §11 To traduce him as an authour of suspitious innouation.    1614 Selden Titles Hon. 286 Thanes remained as a distinct name of dignitie, and vanisht not at the innouation of new honors.    a 1639 Webster Appius & V. v. iii, The hydra-headed multitude That only gape for innovation.    1796 Burke Corr. (1844) III. 211 It is a revolt of innovation; and thereby, the very elements of society have been confounded and dissipated.    1824 L. Murray Eng. Gram. (ed. 5) I. 65 This spirit of innovation has extended itself to other parts of grammar, and especially to the names of the Tenses.    1874 Green Sh. Hist. vii. §1 Cranmer and his colleagues advanced yet more boldly in the career of innovation.

†b.1.b Revolution (= L. novæ res). Obs.

   1596 Shakes. 1 Hen. IV, v. i. 78 Poore Discontents, Which gape, and rub the Elbow at the newes Of hurly burly Innouation.    1633 T. Stafford Pac. Hib. i. xx. (1821) 206 For the same reason of innovation, he besought them to send unto him fiue Lasts of powder with match and lead.

1. a.2.a A change made in the nature or fashion of anything; something newly introduced; a novel practice, method, etc.

   1548 Act 2 & 3 Edw. VI, c. 1 To staye Innovacions or newe rites.    1641 (title) A Discovery of the notorius Proceedings of William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury, in bringing Innovations into the Church.    1717 J. Keill Anim. Oecon. Pref. (1738) 47 This Attraction‥is no Innovation in Philosophy.    1800 Asiatic Ann. Reg., Misc. Tr. 106/1 The tribute you demand from the Hindûs‥is an innovation and an infringement of the laws of Hindustân.    a 1862 Buckle Civiliz. (1873) II. viii. 595 To them antiquity is synonymous with wisdom, and every improvement is a dangerous innovation.    1868 Freeman Norm. Conq. II. viii. 297 The sturdiest champions of Norman innovations.

†b.2.b A political revolution; a rebellion or insurrection. (= L. novæ res.) Obs.

   1601 R. Johnson Kingd. & Commw. (1603) 227 Neither doth he willingly arme them for feare of sedition and innovations.    1726 Leoni Alberti's Archit. I. 77/2 A Province so inclined to tumults and innovations.

3.3 spec. in Sc. Law. The alteration of an obligation; the substitution of a new obligation for the old: see quot.

   1861 W. Bell Dict. Law Scot. 450/1 Innovation, is a technical expression, signifying the exchange, with the creditor's consent, of one obligation for another; so as to make the second obligation come in the place of the first, and be the only subsisting obligation against the debtor, both the original obligants remaining the same.

4.4 Bot. The formation of a new shoot at the apex of a stem or branch; esp. that which takes place at the apex of the thallus or leaf-bearing stem of mosses, the older parts dying off behind; also (with pl.) a new shoot thus formed.

   1835 Lindley Introd. Bot. (1848) I. 168 Shoots which have not completed their growth have received the name of innovations, a term usually confined to mosses.    1845 Florist's Jrnl. 130 The lateral ones‥terminate a two-leaved branch, or innovation, while the central peduncle springs from the apex of the older branch.    1863 Berkeley Brit. Mosses iii. 13 One mode of branching‥is known under the name of innovations.    Ibid. Gloss. 312 Innovations, accessory branches produced generally after the fruit is perfect.

5.5 Comm. The action of introducing a new product into the market; a product newly brought on to the market.

   1939 J. A. Schumpeter Business Cycles I. iii. 84 Innovation is possible without anything we should identify as invention, and invention does not necessarily induce innovation.    1958 J. Jewkes et al. Sources Invention ix. 249 It seems impossible to establish scientifically any final conclusion concerning the relation between monopoly and innovation.    1962 E. M. Rogers Diffusion of Innovations v. 124 It matters little whether or not an innovation has a great degree of advantage over the idea it is replacing. What does matter is whether the individual perceives the relative advantage of the innovation.    1967 J. A. Allen Sci. Innovation & Industr. Prosperity ii. 8 Innovation is the bringing of an invention into widespread, practical use.‥ Invention may thus be construed as the first stage of the much more extensive and complex total process of innovation.

6.6 innovation trunk, a kind of wardrobe trunk.

   1912 Bag, Portmanteau & Umbrella Trader 20 Nov. 18/1 The Innovation Trunk Company‥makes a striking show of wardrobe trunks. They also specialise in the refitting of ordinary wardrobes according to their principle.    1913 A. Bennett Regent iii. 83 Many parcels and boxes, comprising diverse items in the equipment of a man-about-town, such as tie-clips and Innovation trunks.    1915 E. Phillpotts Angel in House i. 17 Robert and Manservant enter through the main entrance carrying Innovation trunk.

Hence innoˈvational a., of, pertaining to, or characterized by innovation; also in Comm.; innoˈvationist, one who favours innovations.

   1800 W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. VIII. 684 Writers, who bring against certain philosophic innovationists a clamorous charge of Vandalism.    1817 Bentham Plan Parl. Reform Introd. 194 A proposition so daring, so innovational.    1873 R. Black tr. Guizot's France II. xxv. 492 His kingly despotism was new, and, one might almost say, innovational.    1959 J. P. Lewis Business Conditions Analysis v. xxiv. 534 The insights of economics do not illuminate the process of innovation very much.‥ On the optimistic side of the innovational outlook, it can be argued, [etc.].    1960 L. S. Silk Research Revolution iii. 50 In the past, the United States has had three great innovational pushes.

agree, n00bs are fit from the git go, accepting the invitation to participate either overtly or covertly is enough to establish a fit attitude. Fit aptitude will come with practice.

Just a quick look at frequency. Does this jibe as a visual gestalt with the text?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIiUqfxFttM

cool

I don't even know what this phrase or that word means anymore.

Post hoc thinking, yes?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-bsf2x-aeE

I am an utter instrumentalist about tech. Its proof is in its use. And that value is decided on each use so that what works one day may not the next. It all depends. I couldn't agree more with Kohn on this. The question then becomes, "What does it depend upon?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cS6VixNGgqg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9wsjroVlu8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4SMndWj5To

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4EBPZkSz9E

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GydjV3gYnqA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEE_-C0Nwjw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZGUIpdc0i4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EixtGKNP6ok

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BceHGzsDVLY

couldn't remember this phrase at first so I typed "the effect when the robot is too real" to find it. What is the effect when Google's intelligence seems too real? Uncanny turing?

Constant conjunction

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PF76qlwWM8s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3-a4qWCtIg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pyp34v6Lmcc

Not so fast!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfKdC6SYcnM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YUiBBltOg4

Where's Dave?

According to Rao and Andreesen, software is trying eats everything, but I suspect it is only eating its own tail.

Here is my rhizomatic learning:

I eat shiitake mushrooms in the spring. I turn over rocks and am stunned by the sheer amount of nothing that I can discriminate from what I see. And that is a damned good thing to see the undifferentiated rhizomatic power of dirt. I harvest wild ginger and encourage bamboo to grow anywhere I find it on my farm. And more and more and more, Nature is a planetary network that is so beyond complex as to be a single thing.

One of the reasons (and there are many more) my wife and I farm is because it connects us with each other and Nature. Nature is not the Internet. It doesn't give a rat's ass what the Internet is. If the software tries to eat Nature, it will find itself being eaten from within. Nature serves as a largely indifferent and "red in tooth and claw" counterbalance to the idiocracy of language and metaphor and idea and number. Nature is like entropy. In the end we all get turned into grass and in a further end the sun goes supernova and we all get sizzled like a bacon. [hands dusted]

I think it is more in terms of "vulgar prestige gain" and how we extract value by promoting a cult of personality around community leaders which in turn increases the prestige value. Reminds me of corporations buying back their own stock in order to concentrate wealth in the hands of stockholders aka executives with stock options. Employees could be paid better wages and in turn could fuel the economy by buying more, but that is not how it works because it does not benefit those who own the capital.

Is this why reciprocation on the web with posts and comments has become a ghost value, there but not there?

are teaching practices ultimately about learning practices.

Isn't it fun to fool the hoi polloi? Isn't it grand to play the gadfly, deny I know what I most assuredly know, and then chuckle inside myself atop my high and clever perch? In the end wasn't Williams just a cruel and highhanded git?

I am reminded of Robert Frost. Most folk think that his poem "The Road Less Travelled" is a sweet little ditty about choice, the perfect poem for a commencement address. In reality it is a profoundly uppity retelling of the myth of Sisyphus. Even if Frost and Williams are right and we live in a world where the right Deleuzian hand doesn't know what the left Guattarian one is doing (or even better Deleuze is fooling Guattari with legerdemain they are both masters of), I ain't buying it. I am living in my own masquerade, the masque of the red death where nature, red in tooth and claw, finds us all shivering in our burrows. And that is no genius discovery, now is it. Here's what is funny--D&G fancied themselves as expert enough at botany to tell us something about the world--they hid behind the metaphor of tree and toadstool, a masquerade of the first water. Why? Because they could.

Thank you so much for letting this powerful light shine out from you and your blog. As I got to the end I was looking at the word 'ludic' and seeing 'lucid' which sent me to the OED and the word 'eludicate'. The word has come to have an unhappy teaching context for me. It means to shine a light on something, but its original Latin sense is "late L. ēlūcidāt- ppl. stem of ēlūcidā-re, f. ē out + lūcidus bright." I see elucidation as an inner act, a drawing forth of the inner light that we all have. It is not what I do as a teacher that matters so much as what our learners do, how they shine. Insofar as I determine that with tech and systems and testing, then I am not teaching, I am not helping my learners shine their own lights and light their own ways in the world. I really believe that in my shared learning spaces. It makes me crazy and ill sometimes when I fail. Really crazy, but it seems like I am in good company here.

When I taught secondary school for ten years, the metaphor that ruled my attempt to be a counterveiling force subverting this instrumental status quo was the parallel track. In my classes I was laying down a set of parallel tracks next to the existing ones. My tracks didn't go anywhere. They were a respite, a haven from the stormy madness of testing and grading and all that lot. It was a respite, but I do believe the assertion that in a sick system no one is well. I see this growing all the time at the university level. The saddest part of this is that the students come to me programmed to be strategic instead of ludic. They all but tell me, "Just tell me what to do." They hate the idea of play in the classroom. Hate it. It is a flat miracle that some of them unlearn this when they realize that I won't punish them for playing with the work.

the triumph of instrumentalism, of the schizophrenic idea that learning can serve both fear and joy. It can't.

Now this is dangerously playful idea. And what we want is high functioning empaths. It is a dangerous place to live for empaths. In fact no matter how much we want to play, there are those authoritarians who keep demanding that we put up our legos as childish things. I think that play is connection: genetically, neuronally, socially, and pragmatically. To adapt Rousseau, humanity is born free to play, but everywhere they are chained.

I agree that collaboration can be play, but is it necessarily so? I have had some pretty unpleasant drudgery that was a colabor.

Do you wonder that this instrumentalism, this idea that learning is a tool is just as much a worry that learning is behaviorally and technologically determined? Maybe that is what you are hinting at in your title?

Is play2learn a separate entity to be developed or is it integral or even a core 'crystal' from which all good learning grows. The lesson from children is that play is at the core of language and physical movement.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYqvGWBkiBc

Can we use tech to be playful and free? I can and I do, but if I couldn't and it didin't then I shant.

Very important to suss out the blindspots inherent in every form of technology. And to find the values hidden within every piece of software and ask is that game worth the candle?

Crowdsourcing programs like Patreon would be a great addition for regular contribution and INdiegogo and kickstarter (there are dozens of these) for events and project funding.

I don't think they need them in this new media environment, do you?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSktkoIIPwk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSktkoIIPwk

"When you remove religion, people start believing in all kinds of bullshit, such as economics" @nntaleb #RWRI

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuP6KbIsNK4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4PE2hSqVnk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EIzKAGwJ-0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UW6sTCDwOnM

https://youtu.be/Mt8YxU1mgWg?t=16s

@tellio working on this book right nows.

Be. He be Mandelbrot.

Yes, a call to action. Always be 'selling', always be sharing, always be helping.

Many hands with many eyes and many perspectives, stances, and capacities--that is an open way of looking at volunteers. And those capacities need building. That is part of the psychic pay of being a volunteer--growing within a context that helps you.

Dan talked about this in our Hangout. Simple, direct, tattoo it on you forearm, but not easy.

I want this tool to also be able to annotate the image. So instead, here is my image response.

Can you dip into the margins within the margins, ie the stuff to the side of the text? Nomadwarmachine did just that below to point out that one of the links is 404. I highlighted bogost from Remi's tag pagebecause I just read Bogost's provocatively titled article, "Gamification is Bullshit" I am wondering how far outside of the primary zone of annotation one can wander in before it becomes that rabbit hole of distraction. Let's see, where was I?

Does Remi know we are here? Bets on how long till he responds?

I am reminded of my favorite Brit philosopher here: A.N. Whitehead who insisted that we needed romance before precision, we need play before pragmatism. When I began teaching Hypothes.is this semester my emphasis was first on homago, especially the messing about part of that. Now I am moving toward being more precise about its affordances, for example, in writing summaries. But even when we are being instrumental and pragmatic with the tool we can still have a playful attitude. If there is no joy and play in using the tool, then why bother. We won't continue to use it, will we.

BTW, we really need a copy to clipboard function here that nicely gathers in all these annotations much like Diigo has. Just saying.

This paragraph brings the negative consequences to the personal level--the effects on the author, a student.

paragraph explores the future effects on author's discipline, academic research libraries.

Provacative but for a purpose.

Big brass...bands.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AO_t7GtXO6w

I am thinking of container ships here. These behemoths ply the seas with tiny crews and mostly automated shipping plans. The hearty crew is only needed to get underway and to weigh anchor at their final destination. This is modern education, on automatic pilot with a skeleton crew mostly playing cards below deck, clueless about anything that asks them to risk judgment or variance from the stayed course.

My screencst version of Treasure Island: "The Maps of Treasure Island"

http://youtu.be/lG6Riht0a84?hd=1

I unschooled all my kids. Is that akin to unstrategizing? Is unstrategizing the same as doing nothing, the same as one hand clapping, the same as that damned finger's silent pointing at the moon?

This is the most interesting part of the week's work, personally--creating my own candle to be drawn toward and even burned by, but it is my own.

Vialogue for Sharing the Silence](https://vialogues.com/vialogues/play_embedded/27325)

the silence sudden? occurring? the moment silent? sudden? occurring?

this word is not a pipe

the frame is an illusion, oh, a shadow of a shadow, a shade twice removed

Is this a continuum, does it have a between?

And gone again,

and again,

and...the moment is always going, going,

and gone again.

Nothing. Greed. A greedy nothing. Greednought.

Sedatephobia

Feels like a clicking into place this quote does.

Dave Gray's great screencast. Here it is as a vialogues video: https://vialogues.com/vialogues/play/27163/

This is one of my favorites.

I love this. Memorable. Part of my theory of close reading is that the slowing down and summing up and otherwise internalizing makes the reading easier to remember and easier to access in our memory schema.

This is up to me and will be the subject of a ten minute "why is this worth learning and using" minilesson.

My classmates' commons--wow, what a phrase!

Students often feel cramped by lots of highlightings on top of highlightings.

not sure if this is damning with faint praise or just withholding judgment.

not sure what this means, probably not a criticism.

tes

Really interesting discussion of some of the assumptions the author makes in the post.

The key word here is "encouraging". And the simplicity of it--standing--is such an easy ask. OK, everybody stand or sit whichever suits you at the moment. But what if you need folks to sit so all can see? We now can appreciate that your whole philosophy of learning is reflected everywhere, even down to the furnishings!

https://youtu.be/g9ZZFCIncA0

Constellations are forever. They tell stories and they are practical tools for navigation. And you don't need Google Maps or Google Earth to make them mean something.

Great question. One of my goals when I retire is to build my own telescope. I love the stars.

I use a model for analysis that goes like this:

1. What is the "text"?
2. What is the context?
3. What is the subtext?

I initially used this model to teach 8th graders about how to analyze political cartoons. Later I used it as a tool for analyzing all manner of media. I have added a fourth text to this.

1. What are the pretexts (assumptions)?

Big fan of the Young Turks and have been since their AirAmerica days and before. Combine them with Chuck Mertz' WNUR show "This Is Hell" and podcast with the same name, I feel halfway informed about the world

Correction: a recent spate?

Is it really as bad as Ebola?

How do you mean? Give a specific time stamp and say why that is an example of vivid.

I did not know that!

It feels like magic sometimes including the possibility for failure. Plus, it takes lots of practice just like magic does.

What is the purpose of repetition here specifically and in poetry in general?

Is this true?

You would think that this was obvious, but in some schools and universities we are as far away from that as we can be. Learning is not a treatment to be undergone, yet...

This is the entry point for everyone's oscillating learning wave.