April 18, 2012

Questions

What would you like to know? If you can ask any question to the guru, what would you ask? If the answer had to be 42, would that bias your question?

What comes around, goes around and if you stick with your premises, they sometimes come back in mysterious manners. Evaluation of a challenge involves understanding the problem from a myriad of angles. If you want an honest question, allow a child to ask.

The gap in education seems to arise at middle school - the 12-14 year old has realized that half of what she knows is bullshyte, but she has no clue which half. After being taught how to walk and talk, she is forced to sit down and shut up. The only method is learn is to be talked at.

The reading and writing parts are supposed to stimulate thought, however the 'teach to the test' mentality of school evaluation systems forces a single line of thought, imposed. I was one of those students who read every book assigned in English class and thought about the concepts. I was totally destroyed when i found out that the people who got higher grades used Cliff Notes to job the game.

Ego is a funny tool. We all have incredible egos for popping other people's self-inflation of their own value. Value is a relative term. We are forced to value money; if we do not, then the world opens up to us in a different form. I value life experience, i value the pursuit of truth, i value you reading this and thinking about what i think.

The frame of reference should direct the form of the question. If you want to get a specific answer to justify an alternate agenda, then you can ask a dishonest question and get your result.

Our young teenagers have a different basis set to work from, they do not get to choose to pursue where their interest lies. They cannot get straight answers to their questions. They are forced to focus in 47 minute periods and switch at the ring of a bell. Pavlov smiles.

The scale of focus is changing in the perspective of what each of us is able to do. The old mindset is no longer achievable, yet the institutions of modern life are at best passe and out of touch.

This blog is thyme howdt - a place where i ask you to think about the answers, so that we can ask better questions and know that the answers are true.

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