Melanesian parody

I love the sense of humour of the security guards. On the way in on the Balus Bus narapela night the Security guard goosestepped in to the centre of the road, snapped to attention, right turned, snapped again, directed us through with a forceful arm motion ordering "Pass Tru", right turned, snapped again, goosestepped back to the post, snapped to attention, about turned and stood at ease. Then they all had a good laugh about it. Mostly security is fairly casual and to see it done with the mock officiousness like that was a great send up. It would make Peter Sellers laugh. Thinking too about John\s books on aids, I was thinking about the Tok Pisin for condom = karamup which possibly might derive froim "cover 'im up".
Concerning too the organisation of Teachingand Learning, the greats of Education Philosophy would be unamused that it has become so mechanical and industrialised: I don't like the aims/objectives/outcomes models. They belong to what I call the Accountability model which works on the opposite principles of Liberal Education model in which motivation is intrinsic. The Accountability model has come about on account of students who don't want to be in the class causing teachers who don't want to be there either. I think you don't find accountability models in after hours tutoring or dance or music or drama classes. Those teachers in those situations are self motivated as are their students and teachers and students at University on account of their knowledge of structure of their subjects. Ferdy de Saussure thought around structuralism rather than independence which I think develops out of the mechanistic model but I need to think about relationalism which applies in both instances. Perhaps the mechanistic model needs an unmoved mover to get it going in which case independence is a false understanding of human behaviour and as a value in the West can be shown to built on shifting sands. So this ought to lead into the way I want to approach the nature of the Melanesian way of thinking. They see things relationallly (I think - I'd have to ask them!) in terms of wontoks and and tradition but educationally their theorists have led them down the Accountability model way. I think that model is neither necessary nor appropriate here but it would be arrogant and neo colonial of me to presume.