What Does It Mean to Wander but not be Lost?
5 Key Principles
Do you wander?
Why do you wander? Do you wander because you are lost? Or do you wander because you are exploring?
What does it mean to wander?
Not all those who wander are lost
observes Bilbo Baggins in The Lord of the Rings, talking about “Strider”, the Ranger who is Aragorn, true king of Gondor.
In a society and profession (education) that is obsessed with planning, pre-planning, and even post-planning, with collecting certain kinds of data, and with standardizing procedures, performance, and people, those who don’t “fit in” – who don’t conform to the dominant paradigm – often seem to wander and may be perceived as lost by those in the Continue reading “Wandering Without Being Lost”