To make democracy work we must be a notion of participants not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain.
That is a secondary teacher conception - the writer as an observer.
The teacher must derive not only the capacity but the desire to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon.
Traditional science assumes for the most part that an objective observer independent reality exists the universe stars galaxies sun moon and earth would still be there if no one was looking.
You can't be a casual observer of something humorous - you have to engage you have to find it funny for the relationship between actor and audience to work.
If the United States of America or Britain is having elections they don't ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections they want observers.
The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.
We are by nature observers and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.
One secret of leadership is that the mind of a leader never turns off. Leaders even when they are sightseers or spectators are active not passive observers.
I awake with a not entirely sickened knowledge that I am merely young again and in a funny way at peace an observer who is aware of time's chariot aware that some metamorphosis has occurred.
You don't have any communication between the Israelis and the Iranians. You have all sorts of local triggers for conflict. Having countries act on a hair trigger - where they can't afford to be second to strike - the potential for a miscalculation or a nuclear war through inadvertence is simply too high.