Association, Culture, Movement, Education - the acronnym is composed of four "tags" which best anchor the work desired. Like many ideas in ABC, ACME is not concrete. It has no adherents yet, no projects, and no future beyond the theoretical and associations with other work already headed down this path. If you feel called to breate some life into the ideas below, please call (866) 236-0346 and let us know how to find you.

this page and configuration was begun by Brandon WilliamsCraig.
Edge-ucation
Education, fundamentally, involves
- learning how to learn
- with others who have learned how to learn
- well enough that they can peacefully (differing creatively) help others learning to
- learn
- entertain ideas, before adopting or rejecting them, long enough to discover many of their consequences
- practice
the ideas with salutary consequences such that undesirable
consequences, inevitably a part of any constellation of thinking, may
be framed as learning, thereby continuing the process, and not
literalizing or creating dogma
Teaching, per se, is
particularly problematic {a}, even before being thrust by those who have not learned how to learn into
the realm of impossibility.
"Guiding", as in the Montessori Guide, is less objectionable but still
inflected with condescension. "Facilitating" learning carries with it a
psuedo-corporate association that almost escapes condescension until a
person becomes enshrined as
the rather than
a facilitator.
If
education, as a drawing out of wisdom that is all-ready in the learner,
has an edge, it is in the learning community where roles are both fluid
and inflected with experience, such that wisdom may occasionally makes
an appearance and be recognized for what it is. This requires building
a conscious culture of community such that co-creation and conflict are
both done well in the service of learning how to learn. Then a people's
lore (the root of "learning") may enrich the lives of everyone involved.
The play-on-words I use for this series of expectations is Edgeucation.