ABSTRACT
This chapter provides guidance for the policy and practice of education and how teaching and learning for human purpose can be arranged. It proposes that a strong theoretical basis exists for establishing forms of human action at all levels of education, in contrast to conservative ideologies that attempt to constrict learning to the narrow and conformist. The connection between culture and meaning intimately links this understanding with epistemology regarding how meaning is approached by individuals, groups and communities. Modern science and particularly cosmology are grappling strenuously with the problem of complexity. Human consciousness is difficult to define and it has been called the 'hard problem' of philosophy that has not been resolved. An important feature of quantum mechanics is that the wave function or many states of a system can collapse into a single eigenstate by measurement or observation of that system.
