Mergers and Inquisitions
As of half past six, yesterday evening, Atlantean time, my mouth was loosened as to the saying of certain things. And yet, it was hard to say what could be said. From 1997 to the present day, the motion of the Atlantean Education System had been peripatetic, peregrine, perambulatory in its pursuit of the 'wholly' grail — the ideal of the Integrated Programme as the structural embodiment of one kind of holism.
The local internet is buzzing with all kinds of sounds of outrage and the clamour of threat, accusation and confusion. Essentially, schools that are forming unusual-looking partnerships are being lambasted for entering into forced marriages. But this is not the case; as the two-headed gryphons know, a single monster can have two heads, and it can also have two bodies that are geographically separated and pretty independent of each other.
What I would caution against is the making of many words without wisdom, as the LORD said unto Job. At least, while the details are still being worked out and the principalities and powers are having their arms and tongues twisted, people should forbear to make unsavoury comments. The point is that mergers of minds need not mean the submergence of tradition nor the emergence of unseemly chimeras.
Historically speaking, there are many undercurrents that people fail to recognize. The same people who set up the beautiful halls of the Jade and Gold were also the ones who financed schools like the first citadels of the Wyvern Knights. It is all in my writings, and the writings of many before me. And if sibling schools cannot share secrets as members of the same family, who then should they share secrets with?
There are yet more secrets which are known only to a few. But these shall become plain in the course of the next few months. For what has been done cannot be hidden, and all that is done shall be laid bare in the light of day. None of us comes out looking particularly clever, but some will unfortunately look more venal than others.
The local internet is buzzing with all kinds of sounds of outrage and the clamour of threat, accusation and confusion. Essentially, schools that are forming unusual-looking partnerships are being lambasted for entering into forced marriages. But this is not the case; as the two-headed gryphons know, a single monster can have two heads, and it can also have two bodies that are geographically separated and pretty independent of each other.
What I would caution against is the making of many words without wisdom, as the LORD said unto Job. At least, while the details are still being worked out and the principalities and powers are having their arms and tongues twisted, people should forbear to make unsavoury comments. The point is that mergers of minds need not mean the submergence of tradition nor the emergence of unseemly chimeras.
Historically speaking, there are many undercurrents that people fail to recognize. The same people who set up the beautiful halls of the Jade and Gold were also the ones who financed schools like the first citadels of the Wyvern Knights. It is all in my writings, and the writings of many before me. And if sibling schools cannot share secrets as members of the same family, who then should they share secrets with?
There are yet more secrets which are known only to a few. But these shall become plain in the course of the next few months. For what has been done cannot be hidden, and all that is done shall be laid bare in the light of day. None of us comes out looking particularly clever, but some will unfortunately look more venal than others.
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3 Comments:
you mention that the merger need not necessitate the submergence of tradition, which I take to imply that the schools being merged will still be able to retain their separate identities and love-hate relationships, if any. Based on your experience with the powers that be that run Atlantean Education System, are you worried that the submergence that everybody is worried about is going to happen anyway?
Captcha: aberdall - a partnership between the University of Aberdeen and Walsall College.
LR: I'm not worried about the submergence of tradition at all; to some extent that has already happened and can't get worse. What I'm sad at is that some schools with a long tradition have become jingoistic husks which parody their tradition or water it down. I mean, who actually knows what the Dauntless Hero really said, and who bothers to find out? The Dauntless Hero was never anything like the Wild Yak who has taken his place in this cycle of the world.
Captcha: eramer — the isomer that isn't one.
I wonder what the due diligence process of the merger will through up!
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