schumacher college

[dartington, devon, uk]

intro’d to them when Fergus and Mark had this convo there..

from the site:

People from all over the world, of all ages and backgrounds, have been informed, inspired and encouraged to act, by our 20 years of transformative courses for sustainable living.

Schumacher College has an enviable reputation for cutting-edge learning. Our work is to inspire, challenge and question ourselves as co-inhabitants of the world, to ask the questions we all struggle to find answers to and to find sound knowledge, intuition and wonder in our search for solutions.

We bring together the leading thinkers, activists and practitioners internationally, to deliver a unique brand of small group learning experiences. This learning takes place in the classroom, the gardens, the kitchen – it pervades everything we do.

Here you will discover things about yourself, make deep friendships with students from around the world, and, like many alumni, start a lifelong connection with the College.

With a focus on interactive, experiential and participatory learning, we offer the practical skills and strategic thinking required to face the ecological, economic and social challenges of the 21st Century.

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Schumacher College was founded in 1990 by Satish Kumar, John Lane and others, and first opened to students in January 1991 in Dartington, Totnes, Devon, UK. Its first visiting teacher was James Lovelock. It was inspired by E.F. Schumacher, the economist, environmentalist, and development educator and the author of Small is Beautiful. 

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Schumacher College (@SchumacherColl)
Take a look at this wonderful video of Satish Kumar interviewing the legendary Amjad Ali Khan at Tagore Festival… fb.me/1yfZjnXlL

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mar 13-17 2017 – course w Manish and Charles

https://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/courses/short-courses/my-partner-the-world

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via fb share [can’t figure out how to leave links in old pages]:

Nobody with any real relationship to Schumacher voted for this.
It was a money issue. It’s hard to make real money from groundbreaking education.

Schumacher has in no way lost touch with its essential values. There’s been no scandal.

I think we’re called to do two things. Grieve appropriately for what is ending and keep an eye for green shoots. To exist in the tension of both is what makes an interesting human being.

A chapter is ending, and to pretend it isn’t is not an adult response. Dwell soberly for a time. It’s ok to be properly sad.

The recent death of our dear teacher Stephan Harding at exactly this moment (Stephan was a huge figure in the life and ideas of the college) brings all this to an expression of even profounder emotion, and it deserves to be so.

a relationship distinguished-by-disfunction is a good one to leave behind.

Stop trying to make it work with people who do not care for you.

Schumacher has a story, a really bloody good one.
As a storyteller that’s always what I’m listening for.

I don’t know what this next chapter is – or when and how it will appear – but let us attend both to our grief and keep our imagination wide for the future. There are far wiser heads than me working on this, but out of love for all involved I wanted to write this.

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