The concept of what is "appropriate" is of critical importance in defining strategies of alternative human development and in educational programs such as the Bridge. All too often, the best of intentions in development in one decade may lead to the most disastrous results in the next decade. Of course, defining what is "appropriate" is a difficult issue in itself because it may be relative to a wide variety of conventional or arbitrary factors, many that are only implicit to the context in which one is working. Human civilization over the generations has explored a complex landscape of relative values and possibilities of order, and our civilization continues exploring this landscape. Along the way, we have found only few anchor points and landmarks by which to set ourselves upon a common course. The notion of "appropriateness" affects all levels of our adaptive function and strategies of adaptation to the world. Because the larger world is always a source of external change that, like the weather, we can never fully predict, what seems appropriate today, like shorts and t-shirts when the sun is shinning, may prove quite inappropriate tomorrow when the skies are gray and cloudy and the rain begins falling.