By Frank Palatnick.
In 1863 Gregor Mendeleev created and established the ‘ Table of Elements ‘ . The table of elements is based on the fundamental parts of nature. Matter, whether gas, liquid or solid is made of basic entities that eventually will be broken down even further. These elements found in nature are understood to be extremely important in how we use and/or abuse our universe.
In the education arena, from pre-kindergarten to post graduate professional studies including legal, judicial and medical, is made up of elements as well. The major difference between natures elements and facilitative elements is that facilitative elements are uniquely individualistic. They enable and empower individuals.
Natures elements are basically universal and do not empower or enable. Students of all ages and at all levels must be empowered and enabled to be not only stakeholders but extreme changemakers. There are currently one hundred and fourteen natural elements. Since we are dealing with the educational arena in this article we will have just as many, if not more, elements. Since we learn something new about ourselves everyday, then we will add new elements as we discover more about ourselves.
We will call them facilitative elements since it is a more modern approach to methodology. No matter what mode or manner that empowerment or enablement is routed, the facilitator must couch that empowerment and enablement in the most successful way. In the educational arena, success can be defined as having the goal or aim of creating ideas and practices that will improve, in a positive way, not only our biosphere we live on, but due to our deep exploration of space, the universe as well.
This article, as well as future articles in this series, will attempt to inform our readers of, not only of the existence of these facilitative elements, but how to use each and every one to its highest level. In this particular article, I will mention the first element which, in my opinion, is the most powerful and productive.
In natures elements the first one mentioned in the table is ‘ Hydrogen ‘. It is the most abundant element. It is found in every living organism as well as most non living organisms. It is found in the sun. Three fourths of the sun is made up of it. The suns light and heat are caused by the process of hydrogen found at its core changing into helium.
It makes the sun shine. The result of the light and heat from the sun helps us to feel comfortable as well as helps us to see. And when the sun shines everything on the earth flourishes. Hydrogen has other important functions and advantages. However, the most important of these is that it gives life. In the educative arena the most important facilitative element is ‘ Heart ‘.
In order to give life to knew ideas and purposes one must use the heart. The most important facilitative element must be used to its fullest. If we bombard the most important element with negative thoughts and actions, the ‘ heart of the student ‘ will break down into smaller particles that will be unusable. Based on the principle that ‘ the whole is greater the sum of all of its parts ‘ , we must keep the heart and mind of the student together so that he/she will be able to ‘ see ‘ the possibilities available to help the world as well as possibly the universe.
The next element I will describe will be ‘ oxygen ‘
