Slim Virgin wrote:
Yet we persist in doing it here -- and worse, because we have no idea who our "menial employees" are, or whether we have one person filling several jobs -- using the excuse that adminship is "no big deal." Ditch that attitude, and we would quickly find a way to deal with some of our problems. So long as it's in place, there's no will to find creative solutions.
Menial:
Adjective:
1. lowly and sometimes degrading: menial work. 2. servile; submissive: menial attitudes. pertaining to or suitable for domestic servants
Noun:
4. a domestic servant. 5. a servile person.
Synonyms 2. fawning. See servile. 4. attendant, underling, hireling, lackey. Antonyms 1. dignified. 2. proud.
(Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2006.)
Is this a word we really want to use to describe ANYONE who is a member of the Wikipedia Community?
on 6/19/07 12:53 AM, Ray Saintonge at saintonge@telus.net wrote:
Creative solutions depend on the ability and willingness to take risks <snip> A community of people who
follow rules to the letter, and
are too afraid to be bold are rarely able to get out of the box that they have created for themselves.
This appears to be especially true when it comes to discussing the leadership and structure vacuums within Wikipedia. It is easy to simply not respond on a List such as this, but how would you react if asked about this in person, face to face?
That's not a small group when you remember that most of our teachers were also stuck in a box, and probably never knew how to teach their students to get out of the box.
Let us resolve to be better teachers for our students.
Marc Riddell