I believe Life gives people clues. I believe these clues—gentle at first, but more forceful as time progresses—urge people to stop mindlessly repeating what others have said/done, and to iterate timeless truths in a manner which is both eternal and novel. And isn’t that the goal of a legit teacher? Not to have their students dogmatically bleat the same combinations of words, but to have them internalize a teaching so they can express it through their unique perspectives. This delivers vitality into whatever those “students” say, for those “students” have gone beyond the teacher/student paradigm, and it is not just words they deliver, but resonance.
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22 responses to “Musings”
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A good teacher enskills and enables. Bad teachers bury their students under the weight of cannon.
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Yep, there are clues… many clues. You just have to learn how to perceive them. And good teachers help with that. A good teacher gives you a foundation of knowledge of how to find information and then use that information to accomplish something. A good teacher shows you how to think, not what to think.
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I think it depends on the individuals within a population. So as governments and historical populations are collections of individuals, if enough of them went through this process, then it would reflect in the collective. Simple answer: I don’t think enough individuals go through this process. And it is pretty painful, so I don’t blame them. 🙂
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Like to believe this is true – but don’t think it is – as we are proving now – we wanted to become part of Europe im told – so we would never be at war again – as in ww1 and ww2 – but now we are throwing that thought out and worryingly for generations that follow – possibly exposing them to same craziness all over again – as their grandparents went thru.
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Well it’s probably not true in the micro, but in the macro, I’d like to venture that humanity has come a long way since our chimp days. 😀 (I know we’re not descended from chimps but you get the idea).
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Basically in the long span of time, we humans have come a long way, and there is yet hope. But if you look at things in mere 100 year spans, yes, things tend to look dismal.
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Kent Wayne 
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