Knowledge and understanding don't come from books. At best you learn a set of symbols from books. If you believe that is knowledge then you've restricted yourself.
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If everybody enjoyed having their errors handed to them we wouldn't have any 'dumb' people.
It's the difference between someone who has a desire to learn and someone who just wants to get it over with.
haha, that totally reminds me of myself. I remember thinking to myself, do i really want to be stuck with all these big heads and having every moment of my time taken up by repetition? Or interact with the rest of the student body?
I never saw the classroom as a place to learn, but rather as a place to accept being confined. Learning can be accomplished anywhere, that's what libraries were for, and now what the internet is for.
Hell, you can study scanned original historical documents from any connected computer. There's a big difference between being bored and being lazy nowadays.
I guess the smart kid wasn't so smart eh? I would just guide my group, giving little hints of direction if they were going off in the wrong direction.
I figured, it was group work, so it should be group effort. I don't care if i know the answer i just can't let people let their brains go to waste.
Other times i'd be pleasantly suprised at possible solutions that others come up with, especially when you get the 'self proclaimed leader' to shut up and encourage the less vocal to speak up.
I gave up on math when i was 12-13 because it's a flawed system for modeling reality (like it or not, humans can affect reality even if on tiny quantum levels, free will doesn't fit nicely into equations). Yet, i still enjoy even just adding numbers in my head to see if i can come up with new strategies or visual simulations to get the answer.
When you assume you know everything you just prove how little true knowledge you actually have.
Being confined to one type is the problem. Learn to become something else. This is only possible when you learn to let go of who you think you are.
People seem to equate self with the way we gather data and the way we process and store it. Yet, these are just routines. Learn the limitations of your routines and you can discover the endless boundaries of true self.
The path to knowledge is on a continuum. We can gain knowledge of the 'why' of something by either taking the problem as a whole, or examining the details. After all, understanding all the details should give us a complete picture of the whole, correct?
The question is, what level of detail? Different realities exist at different levels of detail, take for example the quantum world and the world of physical objects.
Everybody should learn how to draw. mastering drawing requires mastering your visual system and being able to shift through different levels of detail.
Learn about yourself. Look into yoga. The only thing that kept me from dying of boredom in classes would be to 'sleep', slowing down my physical and mental process to deal with the slowness of the delivery of the data.
haha, that and messing with my visual system. Messing with your depth perception can be funny when you perceive your teacher to be a foot tall walking on your desk.
there's always more to learn about how your mind/body work, and anything you learn automatically benefits you.
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Genius is finding a solution for a problem. Regular schooling is memorizing solution patterns worked out by other people.
How can anybody be suprised at the outcome of the school system when it's not geared towards learning?
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When we keep people confined to one area then we have failed. Life is growth and learning.
You want to teach how to make better cogs, we need to focus on giving individuals the tools to become better individuals.
The point is, contrary to the war on drugs, the drugs themselves aren't inherently bad. Though all manufactured drugs seen to be more on the evil side, where non-processed drugs seem to be on the mild, euphoric, mind expanding love the world types. Definitely not useful in the struggle to keep the machine society alive.
Enlightenment coincides with the elimination of fear. Of course, it derives from the understanding and overcoming of those fears. It is quite easy and blissful to live without fear.
However, robbing people of the opportunity to learn about self, well, it'll just lead to more 'abominations' that western medicine is responsible for.
The pharmaceutical lobby would never let it happen. well, at least not in the states. In canada i'm pretty sure all the young people would stone the old people to death to reduce costs for our shoddy healthcare.
Of course, not owning one leaves Sony having a monopoly over the console market. And you know sony doesn't even care anymore about the appearance of caring about their customers or developers.
Your arguing something that everybody knows is incorrect. While relativity is a nice theory and all, we already know that information can be transfered faster than light, and we already know that energy can be transfered back and forth in time.
Remember, relativity is good for it's purpose, but it is NOT a unified theory.
um, space/time squashes you to the planet. Contrary to all the wonderful depictions of masses indenting the flat fabric of space time, it's actually 3d. Picture a marble in a stream of water.
genetics doesn't mean unchangeable. Where do people get that notion? Genes are our software, variables can be changed and snippets of code can be replaced. It happens all the time, it's called life.
What if there is no 'drug' that can cure it? After all, he wasn't on medication. What if the 'cure' is the same 'cure' for hundreds of diseases that afflict millions already. You know, the cure that is basically treating your body correctly. Medical science knows that most diseases can be cured like this and yet they still sell you drugs for 'diseases' that would go away if people took responsability for their bodies. e.g., type 2 diabetes, hyper/hypotension, eyesight, arthritis and most idd's, haha, ingrown toenails, bunions, bone spurs, scoliosis, migraines, etc...
If it was something simple like that you'd never hear about it again and the drug companies would just move on to something else that they can sell you for the rest of your life.
is that it shows what a great judicial system the states has. If there was ever a sign that the USA is falling apart it's this. That or the instructions on toothpicks.
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They are two remarkably differing things.
Knowledge and understanding don't come from books. At best you learn a set of symbols from books. If you believe that is knowledge then you've restricted yourself.
It's the difference between someone who has a desire to learn and someone who just wants to get it over with.
I never saw the classroom as a place to learn, but rather as a place to accept being confined. Learning can be accomplished anywhere, that's what libraries were for, and now what the internet is for.
Hell, you can study scanned original historical documents from any connected computer. There's a big difference between being bored and being lazy nowadays.
I figured, it was group work, so it should be group effort. I don't care if i know the answer i just can't let people let their brains go to waste.
Other times i'd be pleasantly suprised at possible solutions that others come up with, especially when you get the 'self proclaimed leader' to shut up and encourage the less vocal to speak up.
When you assume you know everything you just prove how little true knowledge you actually have.
People seem to equate self with the way we gather data and the way we process and store it. Yet, these are just routines. Learn the limitations of your routines and you can discover the endless boundaries of true self.
The question is, what level of detail? Different realities exist at different levels of detail, take for example the quantum world and the world of physical objects.
Everybody should learn how to draw. mastering drawing requires mastering your visual system and being able to shift through different levels of detail.
We need to learn the reasons WHY we are the way we are, not learn how to deal with it.
We need to 'evolve' on so many levels, acceptance without understanding is stagnation and death.
People seem to miss out on the fact that the 'reality' we perceive all depends on the size of data we sample and our sample region.
haha, that and messing with my visual system. Messing with your depth perception can be funny when you perceive your teacher to be a foot tall walking on your desk.
there's always more to learn about how your mind/body work, and anything you learn automatically benefits you.
How can anybody be suprised at the outcome of the school system when it's not geared towards learning?
You want to teach how to make better cogs, we need to focus on giving individuals the tools to become better individuals.
Genius is the flexibility to learn. Judging from what you wrote, you will never be a genius.
The point is, contrary to the war on drugs, the drugs themselves aren't inherently bad. Though all manufactured drugs seen to be more on the evil side, where non-processed drugs seem to be on the mild, euphoric, mind expanding love the world types. Definitely not useful in the struggle to keep the machine society alive.
Sigh, why are they killing people in the first place? Please, don't answer, no need to increase the agression and violence.
However, robbing people of the opportunity to learn about self, well, it'll just lead to more 'abominations' that western medicine is responsible for.
We're talking physics not grammar and english isn't my first language. I suggest you read logical reasoning by Downey.
Note, all western healthcare is shoddy.
Of course, not owning one leaves Sony having a monopoly over the console market. And you know sony doesn't even care anymore about the appearance of caring about their customers or developers.
Remember, relativity is good for it's purpose, but it is NOT a unified theory.
um, space/time squashes you to the planet. Contrary to all the wonderful depictions of masses indenting the flat fabric of space time, it's actually 3d. Picture a marble in a stream of water.
genetics doesn't mean unchangeable. Where do people get that notion? Genes are our software, variables can be changed and snippets of code can be replaced. It happens all the time, it's called life.
If it was something simple like that you'd never hear about it again and the drug companies would just move on to something else that they can sell you for the rest of your life.
is that it shows what a great judicial system the states has. If there was ever a sign that the USA is falling apart it's this. That or the instructions on toothpicks.