UU101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Social Capital, Experiential Education, Island Life
20 Jun 2016
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Lesson 1: learning in and with the community. If you want to go faster, go alone, if you want to go further, go together. ~ african proverb. We can begin by doing small things at the local level, like planting community gardens or looking out for our neighbors. That is how change takes place in living systems, not from above but from within, from many local actions occurring simultaneously. ~ grace lee boggs. Whatever the issue, community is the answer. ~ margaret wheatley. Take a moment to pause and write down what you think community and engagement is to you. You can write it down on a scrap piece of paper or wherever you"d like. Be sure to keep this, you may want to refer back to it. I want you to be thinking about a few things when working through this first lesson:
