--On Wednesday, April 24, 2002 11:45 AM -0400 Lawrence DeBivort
<debivort@umd5.umd.edu> wrote:rr
> Does 'intellectual' activity not require any skill or technique? If it
> requires any, can these not be taught in school? Is teaching by parents
> any more, or any less 'static' than that done in school?
Elliot:
Critical thinking and self introspection i believe are the techniques of
the intellectual level. I am writting a similar paper talking about the
situation now between the social and intellectual levels. Unlike pirsig, i
think the social level still dominates the intellectual level (one leader
implementing intellect on a social level is infact a creative way to bypass
the intellectual development of the citizenry, i wont explain this here
though), and the current educational system is one mechanism society does
this. I've heard a metaphor for education that i'll put in MoQ terms (i
forget the originator of it):
Social education is like filling a vessle with water, then the filled
vessels can be used for the purposes of the societal level.
Intellectual education is like watering a plant, then the plant grows in
its unique way which may either affirm or negate society.
how to teach crtical thought and self reflection however is another matter
intirely. (but i believe the mystic mode of teaching is along its lines,
coincidentally lawry).
Elliot
PS, thanks for the ideas
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