March 1982 SAT | Education: Tracking or Tradition? TWI Premium
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John-Roger sets up the seminar topic this way, "Why on earth didn't we get an education that would give us an ability to think so that when we got older, and we wanted to hold our focus on something until we got it clear, we could do that?"
He continues with the problem. "Most people find out that after about ten seconds on any subject, their mind goes whhhhht! off on something else." He says that we're trained to have a butterfly mind that darts from one thing to another.
J-R observes that there are two types of education available to us. One type is comprised of the information we get from out here in the world. "We take it in," he says, "and then we put it back out so somebody knows if we got it. That's the way this world has been set up for us to live in and it's backwards."
There is another kind of education and that's the kind J-R is most interested in teaching. It's the kind that allows each of us to achieve our highest potential. "We're intellectuals," he says, "but we're not really intelligent, and that's what I'm talking about now. I'm showing you how to go back inside where that spirit of intelligence resides, how to move into it and how to live in that."
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