Running & Reading ~ The Key To Life!
Will Smith – Running & Reading (The Key to Life)
Art work: “Hearing Senator Barack Obama emphatically state, “I want to end the mindset that got us into war in the first place,” I was moved to hope that the next President of the United States would share my belief in the possibility of world peace. I immediately began to make a work of art to support Senator Obama’s ideals and, more practically, his campaign. It is my hope to help him through this action to become the leader who would strive not only to change the policies of our nation, but the outlook of its citizens.”
-Lou Stovall - Artist on the above graphic where I added the title… kes
a basic learning drill
First pick out a simple book to start with . . .
For learning drill #1:
Pick a line that is in quotes… and take the line and read it out loud.
then … ask – what does this mean to me.
Or, give an example in different words of what you just read from your material. If one cannot give an example, it means there may be a word in the sentence not fully or correctly understood.
So, we look up which word, and the rest is pure magic. You can give examples.
(Here’s an example–
1. “When people mess up their own area, it can slop over into your own.”
2. ~give me an example of that: hmmmmmm (these are made up) (thinking)… If my kids throw books & coats just anywhere when they get home from school and leave a mess in the kitchen and bathroom, it causes confusion to what I was in the middle of doing. …And on and on…up to 10 sentences if needed.
Let’s say we were having a child read that sentence and they didn’t understand the word “slop”.
See if the person you are helping to learn can make a rough sketch with stick people of this example.
With practice, this becomes second nature. Just keep at it. You will brighten up and that’s it! On with more reading. Soon, you will be able to apply and do what you have just learned.
So we look it up: http://www.onelook.com/ and find the definition that best fits: (I feel #1 in the Encarta fits the sentences best:
http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/features/dictionary/DictionaryResults.aspx?refid=1861701887
So look up the word… Say what it means to you… Go back to the sentence and it will now make sense. The pages in any book will no longer cause a “blank feeling” in the mind when words that are not understood are looked up in a simple dictionary and used in sentences.
Carving Imagination
There is pure potential found within an uncarved block. Pu or uncarved block is a principle of Taosim and is a metaphor for wu wei or the ability to know when to act and when not to act.
Take an opportunity to explore the uncarved block (or the blank screen) and to share…(more) whatever emerges as we carve away. Stories, thoughts, discussions, texts, ideas, poetry and other writing are welcome.
This is to go beyond to express your own way through this lovely universe we find ourselves in – how you are as the new blank slate, journal or the uncarved block; how happiness, peace and stillness touch your life; and what you are doing to reveal your inner potential and leave nothing undone each day. If you have not read any Taoist/ Daoist texts – I recommend beginning with the Dao De Jing/ Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu and Chuang Tzu.
The way never acts yet nothing is left undone.
Should lords and princes be able to hold fast to it,
The myriad creatures will be transformed of their own accord.
After they are transformed, should desire raise its head,
I shall press it down with the weight of the nameless uncarved block.
The nameless uncarved block
Is but freedom from desire,
And if I cease to desire and remain still,
The empire will be at peace of its own accord.
~ Tao Te Ching, chapter 37
Whispered Freedom
Freedom for the child means freedom for you. Abandoning the possessions of the child to their fate means eventual safety for the child’s possessions.
You’ve lost the child forever that you seek to control or own.
When a child abuses their freedom they are given a restriction to go off and learn about what is needed to be learned and once learned the freedom is back.
Permit a child to sit on your lab. He’ll sit there. Force him or squeeze him too tight and he will be trying to leave. Instantly he’ll squirm to get away from you. He’ll get angry, cry, protest. Recall now, he was happy before you started to hold him.
Your efforts to mold, train, control a child in general react on him exactly like trying to hold him. If he’s had the above trained, controlled, ordered about, denied his own possessions you can change your tactics. You can give him back his freedom. Of course he’s suspicious of you at first or anxiety ridden like the way I was raised by parents seeking to interrupt making the mistaken idea that a child is an idiot who won’t learn unless “controlled”. Flunk on that part… but it is better to have learned this not to repeat history. You can continue the above good stuff and earn back his love to where he knows you are reliable for food, clothing, shelter and love and he will bring that self determinism to the world.
Avoid “training” him into a social animal. Children begin by being more social, more dignified than adults are. In a relatively short time the treatment he gets so checks him that he revolts. Freedom and love are the key.
What are the three barriers to learning?
Thank you, Applied Scholastics shows in an animated form, the phenomenon that is good to know in order to continue with study of any subject in any language for all ages and student levels.
Study Technology (sometimes refered to as Study Tech) consists of a vast body of data and research in the field of education.
The “Technology” in “Study Technology” does not refer to computers or electronic devices. Instead it refers to a research-based system which can be used to assist people in studying or learning any subject. It is the missing step in modern education.
Study Technology helps students develop critical thinking skills, it motivates and improves the ability of students to learn and achieve proficiency in the subject being studied. Study Technology can be applied to anything: homework, home schooling, teaching, tutoring, sports, work, reading, etc.
Study Technology provides the tools or rules to learn and study efficiently, so that people may actually apply what they learn in school, and not just repeat it back to pass a test. While passing a test is important, it is not nearly as important as students being able to use what they’ve learned. If somebody can’t use what he’s learned in school, he will fail. He will fail in work, in his relationships with others and ultimately in life. He will turn to drugs in an effort to hide from his troubles. Study Technology provides a much better route out.
Study Technology consists of an exact system that teaches people how to learn and can be used by anybody. Study Technology includes the identification of specific learning barriers and the handling of them
“The first barrier to study is Absence of Mass or Physical Object one is studying.
The second barrier to study is Too Steep a Study Gradient
The third barrier to study is All becomes distinctly blank beyond a word not understood or wrongly understood.”
A misunderstood word will remain misunderstood until one clears the meaning of the word. Once the word is fully understood by the person, it is said to be cleared.
The procedures used to locate and clear up words the student has misunderstood in his studies are called Word Clearing. The first thing to learn is the exact procedure to clear any word or symbol one comes across in reading or studying that he does not understand. All Word Clearing technology uses this procedure.
Steps to Clear a Word
1. Have a dictionary to hand while reading so that you can clear any misunderstood word or symbol you come across. A simple but good dictionary can be found that does not itself contain large words within the definitions of the words which themselves have to be cleared.
2. When you come across a word or symbol that you do not understand, look it up in a dictionary and look rapidly over the definitions to find the one which applies to the context in which the word was misunderstood. Read that definition and make up sentences using the word with that meaning until you have a clear concept of that meaning of the word. This could require ten or more sentences.
3. Then clear each of the other definitions of that word, using each one in sentences until you clearly understand each definition.
When a word has several different definitions, you cannot limit your understanding of the word to one definition only and call the word “understood.” You must be able to understand the word when, at a later date, it is used in a different way.
Don’t, however, clear the technical or specialized definitions (math, biology, etc.) or obsolete (no longer used) or archaic (ancient and no longer in general use) definitions unless the word is being used that way in the context where it was misunderstood. Doing so may lead off into many other words contained in those definitions and greatly slow one’s study progress.
4. The next thing to do is to clear the derivation, which is the explanation of where the word came from originally. This will help you gain a basic understanding of the word.
5. Most dictionaries give the idioms of a word. An idiom is a phrase or expression whose meaning cannot be understood from the ordinary meanings of the words. For example, “give in” is an English idiom meaning “yield.” Quite a few words in English have idiomatic uses and these are usually given in a dictionary after the definitions of the word itself. If there are idioms for the word that you are clearing, they are cleared as well.
6. Clear any other information given about the word, such as notes on its usage, synonyms, etc., so as to have a full understanding of the word. (A synonym is a word which has a similar but not the same meaning to another word, for example, “thin” and “lean.”)
7. If you encounter a misunderstood word or symbol in the definition of a word being cleared, you must clear it right away using this same procedure and then return to the definition you were clearing. (Dictionary symbols and abbreviations are usually given in the front of the dictionary.) However, if you find yourself spending a lot of time clearing words within definitions of words, you should get a simpler dictionary. A good dictionary will enable you to clear a word without having to look up a lot of other ones in the process.
Simple Words
You might suppose at once that it is the big words or the technical words which are most misunderstood.
This is not the case.
Words like a, the, exist, such and other words that “everybody knows” are found with great frequency as misunderstood words when doing Word Clearing.
It takes a big dictionary to define these simple words fully. This is another oddity. The small dictionaries also suppose “everybody knows what that word means.”
It is almost incredible to see that a university graduate has gone through years and years of study of complex subjects and yet does not know what “or” or “by” or “an” means. It has to be seen to be believed. Yet when cleaned up, his whole education turns from a solid mass of question marks to a clean useful view.
A test of schoolchildren in Johannesburg, South Africa, once showed that intelligence decreased with each new year of school!
The answer to the puzzle was simply that each year they added a few dozen more crushing misunderstood words onto an already confused vocabulary that no one ever got them to look up.
Stupidity is the effect of misunderstood words.
In those areas which give man the most trouble, you will find the most alteration of fact, the most confused and conflicting ideas and of course the greatest number of misunderstood words.
THE EARLIEST MISUNDERSTOOD WORD IN A SUBJECT IS A KEY TO LATER MISUNDERSTOOD WORDS IN THAT SUBJECT.
In studying a foreign language it is often found that the grammar words of one’s ownlanguage that tell about the grammar in the foreign language are basic to not being able to learn the foreign language.
It is important that these words be cleared.
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The Misunderstood Word Defined
A MISUNDERSTOOD WORD OR SYMBOL IS DEFINED AS A WORD OR SYMBOL, FOR WHICH THE STUDENT HAS:
1. A FALSE (TOTALLY WRONG) DEFINITION: A DEFINITION THAT HAS NO RELATIONSHIP TO THE ACTUAL MEANING OF THE WORDOR SYMBOL WHATSOEVER.
2. AN INVENTED DEFINITION: An invented definition is a version of a false definition. The person has made it up himself or has been given an invented definition. Not knowing the actual definition, he invents one for it. This is sometimes difficult to detect because he is certain he know it; after all, he invented it himself.
3. AN INCORRECT DEFINITION: A definition that is not right but may have some relationship to the word or symbol or be in a similar category.
4. AN INCOMPLETE DEFINITION: A definition that is inadequate.
5. AN UNSUITABLE DEFINITION: A definition that does not fit the word as it is used in the context of the sentence one has heard or read.
6. A HOMONYMIC (one word which has two or more distinctly separate meanings) DEFINITION: A homonym is a word that is used to designate several different things which have totally different meanings; or a homonym can be one of two or more words that have the same sound, sometimes the same spelling, but differ in meaning.
7. A SUBSTITUTE (SYNONYM–a word which has a similar but not the same meaning) DEFINITION: A substitute definition occurs when a person uses a synonym for the definition of a word. A synonym is not a definition. A synonym is a word having a meaning similar to that of another word.
8. AN OMITTED (MISSING) DEFINITION: An omitted definition is a definition of a word that the person is missing or is omitted from the dictionary he is using.
9. A NO-DEFINITION: A no-definition is a “not-understood” word or symbol.
10.A REJECTED DEFINITION: A rejected definition is a definition of a word which the person will not accept. The reasons why he will not accept it are usually based on emotional reactions connected with it.
The person finds the definition degrading to himself or his friends or group in some imagined way or restimulative to him in some fashion.
Although he may have a total misunderstood on the word, he may refuse to have it explained or look it up.
~The Student Hat by L. Ron Hubbard
The Barriers to Study – L. Ron Hubbard: Study Technology
Teaching with Maximal Effectiveness
If one wishes a subject to be taught with maximal effectiveness, he should:
1. Present it in its most interesting form.
a. Demonstrate its general use in life.
b. Demonstrate its specific use to the student in life.
2. Present it in its simplest form (but not necessarily its most elementary).
a. Gauge its terms to the understanding of the student.
b. Use terms of greater complexity only as understanding progresses.
3. Teach it with minimal altitude (prestige).
a. Do not assume importance merely because of a knowledge of the subject.
b. Do not diminish the stature of the student or his own prestige because he does not know the subject.
c. Stress that importance resides only in individual skill in using the subject and, as to the instructor, assume prestige only by the ability to use it and by no artificial caste system.
4. Present each step of the subject in its most fundamental form with minimal material derived therefrom by the instructor.
a. Insist only upon definite knowledge of axioms and theories.
b. Coax into action the student’s mind to derive and establish all data which can be derived or established from the axioms or theories.
c. Apply the derivations as action insofar as the class facilities permit, coordinating data with reality.
5. Stress the values of data.
a. Inculcate the individual necessity to evaluate axioms and theories in relative importance to each other and to question the validity of every axiom or theory.
b. Stress the necessity of individual evaluation of every datum in its relationship to other data.
6. Form patterns of computation in the individual with regard only to their usefulness.
7. Teach where data can be found or how it can be derived, not the recording of data.
8. Be prepared, as an instructor, to learn from the students.
9. Treat subjects as variables of expanding use which may be altered at individual will. Teach the stability of knowledge as resident only in the student’s ability to apply knowledge or alter what he knows for new application.
10. Stress the right of the individual to select only what he desires to know, to use any knowledge as he wishes, that he himself owns what he has learned.—
“It is not Man’s dreams that fail him. It is the lack of know-how required to bring those dreams into actuality.”
—L. Ron Hubbard
Teacher Teacher defined: a person who teaches or instructs.
1. somebody who teaches: somebody who teaches, especially as a profession 2. anything that teaches: an occurrence, idea, or object from which something may be learned Experience is a great teacher.
Teach
impart knowledge to somebody: to impart knowledge or skill to somebody by instruction or example taught me how to drive
2. transitive and intransitive verb give lessons in subject: to give lessons in or provide information about a subject taught Spanish to them
3. transitive and intransitive verb give lessons to somebody: to give lessons to a person or animal teaches the students on Wednesdays
4. transitive verb make somebody understand something: to bring understanding of something to somebody, especially through an experience
The experience taught me a lesson I’ll never forget. 5. transitive and intransitive verb teach regularly: to be a teacher in an institution
teaches college 6. transitive verb advocate something: to advocate or preach something a philosophy that teaches nonviolence [ Old English tǣcan< Indo-European, “to show”]Teacher Teacher defined: a person who teaches or instructs.
1. somebody who teaches: somebody who teaches, especially as a profession 2. anything that teaches: an occurrence, idea, or object from which something may be learned Experience is a great teacher.
Teach
impart knowledge to somebody: to impart knowledge or skill to somebody by instruction or example taught me how to drive
2. transitive and intransitive verb give lessons in subject: to give lessons in or provide information about a subject taught Spanish to them
3. transitive and intransitive verb give lessons to somebody: to give lessons to a person or animal teaches the students on Wednesdays
4. transitive verb make somebody understand something: to bring understanding of something to somebody, especially through an experience
The experience taught me a lesson I’ll never forget. 5. transitive and intransitive verb teach regularly: to be a teacher in an institution
teaches college 6. transitive verb advocate something: to advocate or preach something a philosophy that teaches nonviolence [ Old English tǣcan< Indo-European, “to show”]
