Bullying – Educating Populations En Masse Has Limited Effects on Reducing it in Organizations
The pluralistic informal sectors of an organization can reduce the calculating serial-type of bullying to a degree. But these counter measures do not last indefinitely. Here is one secondary control device that has limited reducing effects on this kind of bullying.
Educating employees, students, or populations en masse.
Educating the workplace employees, school-age students, or members of other organizations does indeed make everyone more aware of what bullying really is. This training will bring about relative amounts of buy-in and pluralistic checks-and-balances for controlling the subtle bullying and other discriminatory or predatory practices.
History of Paper and Papermaking
What would we do if we did not have paper? Our world would certainly be different. Writing material, in some form, has existed for thousands of years. Humanity’s thoughts and emotions have been communicated and stored as a recorded image for posterity’s sake for centuries.
Papyrus was the chosen material for some early civilizations, like the early Egyptians. Papyrus is not an actual form of paper, but was created using layers of the plant. The papyrus plant stalk would be cut into long strips and overlapped, then a second layer would be added in a perpendicular direction. Once this process had been completed the two layers would be pounded together creating a sheet for writing upon. Aboriginal civilizations of Mexico created a similar type of writing surface using the inner bark of trees and plants. By overlapping the pieces of material then pounding them flat they created an ideal pre-paper writing surface.
Over many centuries various forms of materials have been utilized for writing surfaces. Ancient Babylonians carved into clay bricks using tools made of bone. Brass, bronze and copper were used in recorded history. Parchment, created from goat and sheepskin, was an additional writing surface. It was used widely in early European times.
Global Education
If we could represent the demographics of the world into a village of 100 people, what would it look like? If we gave that global village access to 161 billion gigabytes of data, what would they do with it? If six billion gigabytes of data were shared in email in 2006, what would it contain? Most important of all, how is this incredible rate of exponential change be reflected in the education of children today? Where is the education really coming from, in schools, at home or on-line?
A Global Village of 100 People
If we could reduce the world’s population to a village of precisely 100 people, with all existing human ratios remaining the same, the demographics would look something like this: