I found this wonderful quote which reminded me of the many useless meetings that I attended while apearing to move my world as a public educator forward. In many cases, unfortunately, education ‘planning’ is a game with no purpose other than its own pursuit. Plannign without the risk of trials and experiment is abhorrent to learning anything! Therein is the weakness of having no product for the consumer to consume or reject. How can one modify that which has to be accepted, as is? When I get a lousy banana I can shop at a different store -- the next time. In public education, the ‘next time’ is always in the future but the banana stays the same!

"We trained hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams, we would be reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; anda wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization." -- Gaius Petronius Arbiter, 210 B.C.

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