Thanks for pointing out the distinction between education and training. And I think you are right. There are differences. I’ll be thinking on that some more.

I appreciate your distinction between Education and Training. I see many organizations lump these two concepts into the same category, likening both to human or professional development. While there is no doubt an apt linkage between the two, each has fundamentally different approaches and goals.

Your example demonstrates how you personally educated yourself on the Dachis concepts in such a way so as to replicate that education to others. The way you educated others, however, involved the skills of design, systems engineering, and other visual thinking abilities that you were trained to use (whether in a classroom, via experience, or on your own).

I think it’s important for people to understand the distinction between those two concepts: I can TRAIN you to do just about anything so long as you replicate the skills and tasks. But it’s much more difficult to EDUCATE you about something where you retain knowledge, are able to replicate it yourself, and even contribute to the furtherance of the concept that has been taught.

I think you make a very good point about the translation of abstract to more concrete as a necessary step to get people on the same wavelength. Funny, you could say that visuals can help increase what we call having a hiveminded disposition. Everyone thinking and acting in sync. And thanks for the link on Gregory the great. Always nice to ground things like this in historical perspective.

Gregory the Great wrote about the importance of painting of church scenes: “For what writing makes present to those reading, the same picturing makes present to the uneducated, to those perceiving visually, because in it the ignorant see what they ought to follow, in it they read who do not know letters. Wherefore, and especially for the common people, picturing is the equivalent of reading.” [http://gregorianrite2007.blogspot.com/2009/06/gregory-great-and-sacred-art.html]

Ignorant and uneducated are negative words nowadays but think of the meaning in modern terms that refer to the new abstract business terms that mean only what someone says they mean.

David, by transforming abstract ideas into concrete art you are really helping people get on the same wavelength.

(I was an English major with Medieval/Renassiance concentration)