Philosophy Wire: The need for non-education…

What education should be like: A tech guru says that we should teach humans to not be machines. [1] He could be right. We like to teach people how to learn more. How to calculate faster. How to design algorithms better. How to memorize more. And even when students get out of the classroom, we teach them the same things again: How to run faster. How to jump higher. How to be stronger. A deep ancient thirst governs our life and ultimately leads to our death. We had that thirst from ever since we stopped being kids. And we will have it until we die. We cannot quench the thirst. Because it is not a thirst which can be quenched. It is not a thirst for something specific. It is thirst for MORE. And we will never be satisfied. Because we feed our need. In a world of One, we keep on finding more and more parts. Created by us in our quest for more. Stop we must. And think again that we think too much. Just breath. Until breathing has no meaning at all. We used to have nothing. But we never realized that this was everything. We must unlearn what we have learnt. Empty your cup. See? It is full now…

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Philosophy Wire: Domestication. Cause and effect. Non-education.

A rattle will only make noise if you shake it. Animals like the wolf also understand such connections and are better at this than their domesticated descendants. Researchers say that wolves have a better causal understanding than dogs and that they follow human-given communicative cues equally well. The study provides insight that the process of domestication can also affect an animal's causal understanding. [1] Leave the butterfly free and it will learn how to fly. Try to teach it how to fly, and (at least in some cases) you watch it crawl…

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Philosophy Wire: New learning. Blocking off new learning. Living. Crushing. Loving…

People who continued to train on a visual task for 20 minutes past the point of mastery locked in that learning, shielding it from interference by new learning. [1] Learn. And you will be unable to learn anymore. We want to learn. And yet when you learn you become a robot. Man is here not to learn. Man is here to love. And in his ignorance to destroy. To crush. And then to cry. And love again…

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Philosophy Wire: Teaching without teaching...

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2013-11-18]: The best way to teach children how to use the computer, is to leave them ALONE in front of the computer. [1] (we grew up with Commodore and we learned to program by our selves) The best way to learn to fly, is NOT to teach them how to crawl...

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Philosophy Wire: Teachers then, "teachers" now...

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2012-07-30]: In the olrd days, every elderly man was a teacher for the young. Now only those designated by the system as "qualified" to teach are teaching. Parents are too bored to deal with the education of the children. Education at a decay...

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Philosophy Wire: The teenager, the kidney and the… iPad!

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2011-06-04]: A teenager in China sold his kidney in order to buy an iPad [source: BBC News]. If the inheritance we leave to our children are the things we teach them, then children today have taken… “not many things” to put it mildly…

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Philosophy Wire: Amazon, Euclid and the importance of non-education

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2011-05-26]: A French research group studied some Amazon tribes and found out that geometry is innate in humans [source: web news]. These "primitive" people had the same knowledge of geometry principles like students who had been taught the same things in official schools. The most remarkable aspect of the study is that the "primitive" people had more advanced abilities to understand non-Euclidian geometries than the students of the western world have. Maybe this is because too much education makes you blind. If one has learnt to think in a specific way, how can he unlearn, be innovative and think “out of the box” ?

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