Overview
Let’s create a new kind of learning center that is open to everyone. The conventional style of education is narrow and shallow, based on passing down knowledge of authority figures. It is learning for information, for distraction, or to earn money or get a job.
Details
Undertake your education as a monastic vow to grasp your higher nature. Learning pathway is what we used to call education. In this age of specialization education for wholeness or rounded personality development is of ever greater importance.
We need the mental fortitude to approach any question with resolution and plumb its depths.
What does an ‘educated’ person need to know?
→ The perennial questions, about appearance, desire, loss, envy…
→ Become dissatisfied with what you are, not what you have.
→ Ascertain the real movement of the spirit within you. Become sensitive to the reality and will other people.
→ Learn to deal with passion, envy, greed, narcissism. Know how to respond to ignorance and evil. Appreciate silence and solitude. Learn how to remember, and how to listen. Learn to negotiate between matter and spirit, between necessity and freedom.
Possible features
→ City-wide learning, open to all at low or no cost.
→ ‘Celebration of the good.’ Informal readings or performances of anything that makes you think, reaches your heart, or lifts your spirit. An experiment in a new way to pass the time on weekend evenings.
→ Users can select any topic. The public will find those who with experience who are able to become a guide.
→ Movie theater with great movies and other features such as discussion.
→ Develop other learning forums such as public gatherings, festivals, conferences, and seminars that cultivate and celebrate our emerging wisdom.
"Most people think only once in their lives, usually when they are at college. After that their minds are made up, and their decisions, utterances are endless repetitions of views that have in the meantime become obsolete, outworn, unsound.” Abraham Heschel
“What is the hardest task in the world? To think.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
We need the mental fortitude to approach any question with resolution and plumb its depths.
What does an ‘educated’ person need to know?
→ The perennial questions, about appearance, desire, loss, envy…
→ Become dissatisfied with what you are, not what you have.
→ Ascertain the real movement of the spirit within you. Become sensitive to the reality and will other people.
→ Learn to deal with passion, envy, greed, narcissism. Know how to respond to ignorance and evil. Appreciate silence and solitude. Learn how to remember, and how to listen. Learn to negotiate between matter and spirit, between necessity and freedom.
Possible features
→ City-wide learning, open to all at low or no cost.
→ ‘Celebration of the good.’ Informal readings or performances of anything that makes you think, reaches your heart, or lifts your spirit. An experiment in a new way to pass the time on weekend evenings.
→ Users can select any topic. The public will find those who with experience who are able to become a guide.
→ Movie theater with great movies and other features such as discussion.
→ Develop other learning forums such as public gatherings, festivals, conferences, and seminars that cultivate and celebrate our emerging wisdom.
"Most people think only once in their lives, usually when they are at college. After that their minds are made up, and their decisions, utterances are endless repetitions of views that have in the meantime become obsolete, outworn, unsound.” Abraham Heschel
“What is the hardest task in the world? To think.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
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