Place-Based Education

"Love is the deepest science, but it is not quantifiable.  Loving attentiveness to one’s bioregional community is a discipline, in the sense of being a life’s study. It does not, however, depend upon the sort of specialized vocabulary that those academic categories we call “disciplines” use to define and defend themselves. There is already a temptation, given the rapid growth of interest in environmental issues, to segregate environmental studies or environmental education into new departments or programs of their own. But we should resist this impulse. The essence of environmental education is a certain energetic waywardness with regard to compartmentalization and boundaries of all kinds."-John Elder, from Stories of the Land: A Place-Based Environmental Education Anthology