From the Principal

Real learning gets to the heart of what it means to be human. Professor Peter Senge 

Last year I stumbled across the fascinating work of American science system thinker Professor Peter Senge. Some may have heard of his book The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization where he famously said: “‘through learning we re-create ourselves. Through learning we become able to do something we never were able to do. Through learning we reperceive the world and our relationship to it. Through learning we extend our capacity to create.”  Such powerful, liberating statements that highlighted to me the important role education holds in society.  As I reflected on Senge’s comments and our recent past, I came to the pleasing realization that we can confidently substitute RLP for his learning and make the same bold claims:

Through RLP we re-create ourselves. Through RLP we become able to do something we never were able to do. Through RLP we reperceive the world and our relationship to it. Through RLP we extend our capacity to create.  

Senge’s claims are a timely reminder that remote learning has in fact unveiled many enormous and unexpected benefits upon our lives in 2020.  While we all revel at the prospect of re-uniting ‘face to face’ in the classroom, the lessons learnt over the past months have been empowering.

Dr Andrew Hirst