Learning at the Edge of Chaos

I have been thinking over the past few weeks about the juxtaposition between order (structure and the expected) and chaos (the novel and the unknown) and how the balance between these is where learning often is strongest (or more likely/evident). Today I saw this quote from Oscar Wilde. I thought about it more ...

... I am not sure it is saying what I "want" it to say but it intrigues me none-the-less. We all live and exist within systems .. each natural system is ordered EXACTLY as it is needed for us to survive (or even prosper at times). The solar system, our ecosystem, our bodily systems, etc. Is this true of our man-made systems (economics, political, educational)?

I thought about our educational system ... the place where we are asking each of us to learn and develop. We need some expected events to exist ... but which should we maintain and which should we dismiss? This brings us to hyper-structure vs chaos. If we just ask learners to do as we do or reply as we spoke or solve as we solved, we limit learning to regurgitation -- it is when we offer the students an environment where they play with their thinking, learning, and doing without knowing exactly what they will find out (a chaotic endeavour - especially with 30 students in a class) that we free each student to develop their voice in their own learning and each of the minds we are tasked to energize is able to EVOLVE into the thinker, learner, and doer that they are best able to be at that given moment.

This is so powerful. Freeing a learner to learn and trusting that they will navigate the chaos of innovation and creation and develop order for themselves is a beautiful thing to behold.

Hmm? Out of the chaos and darkness comes creation - is this still true today?