An Academic Village, the seamless campus -
at Hesston College, Hesston, KS 67062 - 2006-07
Dwight Emmanuel Roth, M.S.W., M.A.--director
Growing older is a moral and spiritual frontier because its unknowns, terrors, and mysteries cannot be successfully crossed without humility and self-knowledge, without love and compassion, without acceptance of physical decline and mortality, and a sense of the sacred. This requires a delicate reciprocity in which individuals must be willing to persevere on the tragic journey to self-knowledge and communities must be willing to tolerate the unknown, the fearfully alien old person.
Thomas R. Cole
Generativity
I visualize that these intergenerational concepts we work with now
will someday evolve to a new philosophy of education;
an approach with roots deeply entwined in the natural rhythms of life
and true understanding of human development.
With gentle and limber branches of respect for the wonder
of individual differences
and a fundamental recognition of our mutual interdependence
of the heart,
learning will be celebrated as a continuing life-process
unbounded by age.
With the turning of the soils of life,
we will take time to nurture our seed in this fertile loam
of knowledge and experience and empathy
that each one of us has to share;
and in this process, assure that the magic cyclical substance,
which now naturally bridges and binds the spirits
of the very young and the very old
will bind us all.
Dyke Turner, Bridgings, Inc. Children's Architecture
1201 3rd Ave. Suite 2360, Seattle, WA 98101