master of education program

TIES Library

These books have been carefully chosen to not only set the context for integrative learning, but also provide paradigm-shifting wisdom for conceptualizing the future of humanity and the role of education.

books used in coursework:

"Our own special role, which we will hand onto our children, is that of managing the arduous transition from the terminal Cenozoic to the emerging Ecozoic era, the period when humans will be present to the planet as participating members of the comprehensive earth community."

IL + MIL

"I think, then, that there is the possibility of the transformation of consciousness, both individually and collectively. It’s important that it happened together – it’s got to be both."

IL + MIL

"The systems view of life is an ecological view that is grounded, ultimately, and spiritual awareness."

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"Those championing sustainability recognize that the human economy is embedded in the living earth."

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"Intelligence is the capacity to perceive the what is; and to awaken this capacity in oneself and others, is education."

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"Truth is something lived in the moment and expressive of an individual’s connection to the whole"

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"Through the development of its body and behavior, each human infant roughly reenacts the multimillion-year journey of our ancestors from gesture of the hands to gesture of the time."

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"Becoming a form of human being that is as natural to the universe as the stars or the oceans: knowing how we belong and where we belong so that we enhance the flourishing of the Earth community."

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"Not in the service of any political or social creed should the teacher work, but in the service of the complete human being, able to exercise in freedom a self-disciplined will and judgment, unperverted by prejudice and undistorted by fear."

MIL

"An education capable of saving humanity is no small undertaking; it involves the spiritual development of man, the enhancement of his value as an individual, and the preparation of young people to understand the times in which they live."

MIL

"Only when space and time are reconciled into a single, unified field of phenomena does the encompassing Earth become evident, once again, in all its power and its depth, as the very ground and horizon of all our knowing."

IL

"Education is, at its best, a dialogue in which each participant becomes both teacher and learner."

IL

"Knowledge is not just something to be stored and talked about; it’s something to be lived."

IL + MIL

"A universal revolution is what we need. This revolution requires only that [humanity] should raise its values and become the master, instead of the victim, of the environment [we ourselves have] created."

MIL

"The fact that individuals share so few common associations for a given word, image or ideas means that we are all magically and eerily different from each other."

IL + MIL

"The whole of creation must be a single, enormously intricate web of interconnected vibrational patterns"

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"The openness and creativity that influence a system’s evolution will also affect the evolution of the environment."

IL

"It is my belief that what we should cultivate in our teachers is more the spirit then the mechanical skill of the scientists; that is, the direction of the preparation should be towards the spirit rather than toward the mechanism."

MIL

"The more sensitive and knowing we become, the richer and larger becomes our reality."

IL

"Learning should not be an effort for children, a burden, or a tedious duty performed for the sake of the approval of someone in authority."

MIL

"Love is conceded to humans as a gift that is directed for a certain purpose and a special reason and, in that, it resembles everything lent to human beings by the cosmic consciousness."

MIL

"When we do not trouble ourselves about whether or not something is a work of art, if we just act in each moment with composure and mindfulness, each minute of our life is a work of art."

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IL + MIL

In this glorious celebration of observation, curiosity, and imagination, Brendan Wenzel shows us the many lives of one cat, and help perspective shapes what we see.

IL + MIL

“transition always starts with an ending. To become something else, you have to stop being what you are now; to start doing things a new way, you have to end the way you are doing them now; and to develop a new attitude or outlook, you have to let go of the old”

IL + MIL

recommended:

bookstores:

Powell’s City of Books

1005 W Burnside St.
Portland, OR 97209
800-878-7323

The Last Bookstore

453 S Spring St.
Ground Floor
Los Angeles, CA 90013

213-488-0599

Elliot Bay Book Co.

1521 Tenth Avenue
Seattle, Washington 98122
800-962-5311

Skylight Books

1818 N. Vermont Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90027

323-660-1175

Literati Bookstore

124 E Washington
Ann Arbor, MI 48104

734-585-5567

Green Apple Books

506 Clement St., at 6th Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94118
415-387-2272

1231 9th Avenue at Lincoln
San Francisco, CA 94122
415-742-5833

McNally Jackson Books – Nolita

52 Prince St.
New York, NY 10012
212-274-1160

McNally Jackson Books – Williamsburg

76 N. 4th St., Unit G
Brooklyn, NY 11249
718-387-0115

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