Environmental education works only as a balanced ingredient, not the whole dish.

Evidence

For me, environmental education is like cilantro. Cilantro is an appealing herb when used in the right proportion. Salsa with too much cilantro is obtrusive and unpalatable. But salsa without cilantro doesn’t taste right; it’s missing an essential ingredient. In communityand place-based education we need to find the same kind of balance between environmental quality and economic vitality, or between nature studies, history, and literature In CO-SEED schools, we try to create this kind of balance in a variety of ways. — David Sobel, Place-Based Education, 73

Categorization

• CANDY: Cilantro metaphor for balanced environmental education is a light, tweetable image.
• recurring: this claim recurs 2 times within its source
• XREF: connects to: Place-based education runs on four distinct domains of school practice — David Sobel, Place-Based Education: Connecting…, 74; Environmental education can alienate resource-dependent rural communities when it condemns local livelihoods. — David Sobel, Place-Based Education: Connecting…, 68; The label ‘environmental education’ itself repels some communities where neutral terms succeed. — David Sobel, Place-Based Education: Connecting…, 72 (+3 more)

Related

• Place-based education organizes work into four balanced domains of practice. (similarity 0.82)
• Place-based programs weave environmental values in without letting them dominate any work domain. (similarity 0.82)
• Environmental content must be balanced with other subjects to be palatable in place-based education. (similarity 0.81)
• Place-based education requires place-specific balancing of economic and environmental concerns (similarity 0.80)
• Balancing economic and environmental concerns secures credibility for place-based education. (similarity 0.80)
• The label ‘environmental education’ itself repels some communities where neutral terms succeed. (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Environmental education should transmit an ethic by showing possibilities, not by preaching obligations #expands (0.85) — Freeman Tilden, Interpreting Our Heritage, 60
• Short teacher trainings fail to produce durable environmental teaching proficiency #qualifies (0.78) — David Sobel, Place-Based Education, 103
• Sustainability can mean transforming, not adding to, education #complicates (0.75) — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education, 251