"We have to demand that new voices and new ideas get a hearing: my ideas and yours. We've all had a belly-ful of authorized voices mediated by television and the press. A decade-long free-for-all debate is what is called for now — not any more 'expert' opinions. Experts in education have never been right; their 'solutions' are expensive and self-serving and always involve further centralization.
"And we've seen the results!"
— Same genius
Thursday, July 28, 2016
Scrap a "school system" and reinstate a LIFE one
“Independent study, community service, adventures and experience, large doses of privacy and solitude, a thousand different apprenticeships — the one-day variety or longer — these are all powerful, cheap, and effective ways to start a real reform of schooling. But no large-scale reform is ever going to work to repair our damaged children and our damaged society until we force open the idea of “school” to include family as the main engine of education. If we use schooling to break children away from parents — and make no mistake, that has been the central function of schools since John Cotton announced it as the purpose of the Bay Colony schools in 1650 and Horace Mann announced it as the purpose of Massachusetts schools in 1850 — we’re going to continue to have the horror show we have right now.
"The 'Curriculum of Family' is at the heart of any good life. We've gotten away from that curriculum. It's time to return to it.
"The way to sanity in education is for our schools to take the lead in releasing the stranglehold of institutions on family life, to promote during schooltime confluences of parent and child that will strengthen family bonds."
— Some genius
"The 'Curriculum of Family' is at the heart of any good life. We've gotten away from that curriculum. It's time to return to it.
"The way to sanity in education is for our schools to take the lead in releasing the stranglehold of institutions on family life, to promote during schooltime confluences of parent and child that will strengthen family bonds."
— Some genius
Social media and social reality
What do we hunger for that we can't get from Facebook or "work"?
Personal, face-to-face, messy, beautiful, intimidating, challenging, validating, interaction with other human beings, the only purpose of which is to experience raw, pulsing life.
Physical touch.
To see the physical fruit of some worthy labour.
Eye-contact.
Smells.
True surround sound.
Live, unencumbered positive human responses.
Personal, face-to-face, messy, beautiful, intimidating, challenging, validating, interaction with other human beings, the only purpose of which is to experience raw, pulsing life.
Physical touch.
To see the physical fruit of some worthy labour.
Eye-contact.
Smells.
True surround sound.
Live, unencumbered positive human responses.
On self-teaching
"We've got to give kids independent time right away because that is the key to self-knowledge. And we must re-involve them with the real world as fast as possible so that their independent time can be spent on something other than abstraction.
"This is an emergency! It requires drastic action to correct!"
"This is an emergency! It requires drastic action to correct!"
Family happiness
My question … was the simplest of questions, lying in the soul of every man from the foolish child to the wisest elder: it was a question without an answer to which one cannot live, as I had found by experience. It was: “What will come of what I am doing today or shall do tomorrow? What will come of my whole life?” Differently expressed, the question is: “Why should I live, why wish for anything, or do anything?” It can also be expressed thus: “Is there any meaning in my life that the inevitable death awaiting me does not destroy?”
Wednesday, July 27, 2016
Mindweather 101
Notes from the Underground:
1. Emotions, like weather patterns, come and go — the issue is not that we have emotions, but how we judge them and ourselves moment to moment as we experience them. "Something must be wrong with me" is condemnation coming from an external source, even if the voice is our own. Kids don't question whether or not they are okay until they receive some message/signal from an external saying either that they are or aren't (BOTH negatives, because it sets up for a false world view that says the purpose of life is to ascribe rightness or wrongness to everything, including our emotions).
"I didn't know I wasn't okay — that my existence was a problem."
2. "Mindweather 101, All of Life’s online class, was designed
to set people loose on their own unique path towards
vibrant mental health." — Brilliant!
Soul dump for new forum of Awesomeness
Perceive, analyze, express.
Find people who can but aren't and help them see honestly what they could.
Forum for sharing, rejoicing together, encouraging, community exploration
What do people hunger for that is not currently being fed to them through social media and existing communities?
What are people hungering for?
Provide forum where we can invite people to feel okay being what they most love about themselves.
"I just love this!" — How many of us do what we do because we LOVE it versus our being addicted to the socially accepted outcomes the baaa-havior produces?
Freedom from social media.
This can NOT be about self-validation, but the experience of our humanity.
No name.
Do you know that what you think is the answer to your problem is actually the root of the problem?
More question:
Vision: Share awesomeness, intimate connection with people
Activitator.
Patron saint: Dr. Bronner
Starting activities: presentations, discussion, music, reading, discussion, movies, discussion.
***Keeping rants to a minimum will go far in preserving the sense of vision that we are going for. Plenty of rants on social media.
"I have lived through much, and now I think I have found what is needed for happiness. A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books , music, love for one's neighbor — such is my idea of happiness. And then, on top of all that, you for a mate, and children, perhaps — what more can the heart of a man desire?"
Social media
Find people who can but aren't and help them see honestly what they could.
Forum for sharing, rejoicing together, encouraging, community exploration
What do people hunger for that is not currently being fed to them through social media and existing communities?
What are people hungering for?
Provide forum where we can invite people to feel okay being what they most love about themselves.
"I just love this!" — How many of us do what we do because we LOVE it versus our being addicted to the socially accepted outcomes the baaa-havior produces?
Freedom from social media.
This can NOT be about self-validation, but the experience of our humanity.
No name.
Do you know that what you think is the answer to your problem is actually the root of the problem?
More question:
Vision: Share awesomeness, intimate connection with people
Activitator.
Patron saint: Dr. Bronner
Starting activities: presentations, discussion, music, reading, discussion, movies, discussion.
***Keeping rants to a minimum will go far in preserving the sense of vision that we are going for. Plenty of rants on social media.
"I have lived through much, and now I think I have found what is needed for happiness. A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books , music, love for one's neighbor — such is my idea of happiness. And then, on top of all that, you for a mate, and children, perhaps — what more can the heart of a man desire?"
Social media
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