There is this verse from Ecclesiastes 11:1:
“Cast your bread on the face of the waters, for after many days you will find it.”
To my surprise, it was easy at that time (1991) to translate the idea of the feedback-controlled control loop into didactic models.
The “water” is the ocean of time, in which one his Time is essential; the "bread" is the commitment and conviction required to realize a task or a project. How astonishing it is when, decades later, the idea one pursued continues to gain traction. Nothing is ever truly lost. It's simply a law of being.
I was bold enough to integrate cybernetically motivated teaching models into that small work. I came across them through my teacher Dr. Max Kappeler's book on the four levels of spiritual consciousness. He describes the spiritual frame of reference as it appears in various forms in the spiritually relevant texts of humanity—for example, in Ezekiel 10, who, in his vision of the four "wheels within the wheels," develops an early image of the all-pervading influence of the Infinite One.
As mentioned, transferring a metaphysical idea into everyday school life was a surprisingly easy undertaking. Every teaching or learning process is a feedback process. Once you recognize this, a new, control-loop-based model practically writes itself. The architecture of a control loop is also easily recognizable in the famous Ecclesiastes quote above.
Today, as another didactic project I also get the beautiful image of the preacher comes to mind again – and I am amazed when I see once again the convoluted paths on which things fit together.
