what KNOWLEDGE is TIMELESS?

This question has been surfacing for me lately.

Yesterday, it came up in conversation at Moondance and Kim said, " are ya ready for it? NATURE."

Which of course makes so much sense.

Nature sustains us in so many ways, physically, emotionally, intellectually and spiritually if we so desire. It's always there and it gives us life.

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The question had arisen related to learning... as in the context of a quickly moving information and technological age, things are changing all the time and they are changing fast. In many cases, by time you have learned something new, that information is not necessarily relevant anymore... especially related to technology...as soon as a new item comes into public view, the inventors, researchers, programmers and scientists have come up with something faster, smaller and lighter that will hit the shelves or the newsstands before you know it. If technology is supposed to be the wave of the future, what is important to learn when so much of it is obsolete as soon as it is introduced?

Of course what is important to me, will be different from what is important to you, or the next guy... and well, that's the point... learning and interests are individual.

Some people, say the basics are a necessity for learning.... reading, writing, math, science, history and geography. Some people would believe the arts are essential. However, there are others that say you can live a successful and happy life without learning everything a school, a parent or a government tells you you need to know to survive.

If we go on the premise of Holt, that 'children are hard-wired to learn' and we leave them to their own devices to discern what learning is most important to them at any given time, we will likely find that they are adept at flowing in and out of our changing world much more readily. They will be one with the flow as it happens because they are living in it, observing and experiencing it first hand. They will have a greater awareness of what is going on in the world and in their own personal world if given the time to interact, process and explore it.

They may not 'know' everything that the kid next door knows ... but who is the best person/organization to say what any one of us should know? When do we attain those rights as individuals?

A lot of people I know think we are born with those rights.

What knowledge is timeless to you?

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"I like nature because it makes me feel happy to be free."

Maeghan Redmond, at age 7