Initiatives
"In any branches of mathematics, the notions presuppose each other. It is a remarkable characteristic of the history of thought that branches of mathematics, developed under the pure imaginative impulse, thus controlled, finally receive their important application. Time may be wanted. Conic sections had to wait for eighteen hundred years."
- AN Whitehead, Process and Reality, 1929
In an attempt to assist cohorts with the integration of their curriculum into an ever widening educational, societal and environmental context, Northfield undertakes certain initiatives which presuppose one another even if some of them have to wait on the expansion of imaginations to receive their vindicating and organic applications in the lives of the students and the larger society.
Some of our current initiatives are the following.