Reading Archive (Education)
If You Really Pay Attention
When I was a little bitty kiddy, about five, my Dad began a process … anytime somebody came and said something to us, my dad would...
An Ego Strategy to Avoid Surrender
What is conventionally called “love” is an ego strategy to avoid surrender. You are looking to someone to give you that which...
The Secret Of Work
Whatever we do, we want a return. We are all traders. We are traders in life, we are traders in virtue, we are traders in religion. And...
Why Can't We Tolerate Emptiness?
Why is it so hard for us to tolerate emptiness in our minds? The prevalent belief that action always equals progress may be a...
The Gift of New Eyes
Many years ago, I had just given a talk on the messages, both positive and negative, that we convey to our patients without our...
On Education
"Sometimes one sees in the school simply the instrument for transferring a certain maximum quantity of knowledge to the growing...
Be Not a Beggar
Ask nothing; want nothing in return. Give what you have to give; it will come back to you — but do not think of that now,...
The Difference Between Education and Training
For me, the process of education is intimately related to the process of healing. The root word of education -- educare -- means to lead...
Meaning of Love
[Helen Keller tells how, as a deaf and dumb child, she learned the meaning of love from her teacher, Anne Sullivan.] I remember the...
The Most Precious Freedom
Here is just one example of the total wrongness of something I tend to be automatically sure of: everything in my own immediate...
Questioning Our Questions
"If I had an hour to solve a problem and my life depended on the solution, I would spend the first 55 minutes determining the proper...
Indigenous Perception in a Modern Body
I was similar to other suburban kids and was moving towards more involvement in sports when I happened to meet a person on a street...
Grace In The Classroom
I want to demonstrate to my students that their worthiness does NOT depend on the grades they earn in my class. Of course, I want...
Thinking, Feeling, Willing
In these difficult times, my great hope is that we can move to a culture that balances our needs and wants with our actions and...
Many Schooled But Few Educated
If busyness is an emotional complex, then it's likely that when we are busiest, we are doing least. We can be extremely active without...
Garden Teaches Us To Travel
If indifference to nature leads to the machine, the indifference of nature leads to the garden. All culture has the form of gardening:...
The Revolutionary Educator
Narration, with the teacher as narrator, leads the students to memorize mechanically the narrated account. Worse yet, it turns them...
The Myth of Progress
If we find ourselves discouraged by lack of spiritual progress, after several weeks, months, even years, we do not need to be concerned...
Imitation
Another cause of dullness is imitation. You are made to imitate by tradition. The weight of the past drives you to conform, toe the...
Triformational Matrix
I understand transformation by a model I call the Triformational Learning Matrix. Tri means, of course, three, and so the formational...