I think there is a huge need for Americans to learn analytical thinking skills. That's good that Will Reusch is providing educational opportunities that are no longer taught in most U.S. schools. The question is how to provide opportunities like this on a much larger scale.
Thank you both for this interview. As an independent, international educator for the last 50 years, Yes, you got that. I started teaching kindergarten and had my own preschool in 1973 in the tiny town of Cave Junction, Oregon. From the very beginning of my teaching career--and I have taught and am still teaching--I designed curriculum totally centered on the student at his/her different levels, age, their culture, sometimes religion, and their reality. Actually, they guide me to help them, learn about themselves, while I exercise their mental, and spiritual curiosity to explore their relationship with the world/cosmos.
When you notice a mind start working (even age 3) it is good to expose that child to the prerequisites of critical thinking . These are values, virtues, the natural world, a conscience and self-awareness.
A bit about me: After graduating with a Masters in Education degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and a non-degree study in Buddhism at the Harvard Divinity School in 1987, I moved to Thailand to study Buddhism. I have been living here ever since. In my teaching and counseling over the years, I have developed both curriculum and a unique counseling method which encompasses both Buddhist psychology as well as psychological astrology, and fasting.
Well, I never know if my comments will be read and/or of interest.
Many Good Wishes to you and your wife from the island of Koh Samui
Funny... Will was talking about suffocating and 10 minutes left. I thought he was talking about BJJ (being strangled and ten minutes left in sparring practice). Maybe he was referring to both, but it's interesting how psychedelics compare to rolling in its humility development.
I don't think BJJ or psychedelics are for everyone, but I'm doing my part to bring martial arts training to my school community as a high school teacher. The more kids we can introduce to martial arts the better. Grappling gives us an excellent epistemological skill set, which acts as a reference point (or a hub) for the different academic disciplines. In martial arts, we learn intuitively about physics, biology/anatomy, psychology, and more, and these can become entry points for more advanced, theoretical understandings of a particular discipline.
Above all, you're constantly checked as to the limits of your own ideas. When a technique doesn't work like you thought it would, you have to hone in on details you missed. You have to accept that your opponent had a clearer, more detailed read of reality and their martial "gnosis", or perhaps just their strength, has completely overwhelmed your defences. If you're humble, you'll learn and your martial gnosis (total awareness) will improve.
I think there is a huge need for Americans to learn analytical thinking skills. That's good that Will Reusch is providing educational opportunities that are no longer taught in most U.S. schools. The question is how to provide opportunities like this on a much larger scale.
Thank you both for this interview. As an independent, international educator for the last 50 years, Yes, you got that. I started teaching kindergarten and had my own preschool in 1973 in the tiny town of Cave Junction, Oregon. From the very beginning of my teaching career--and I have taught and am still teaching--I designed curriculum totally centered on the student at his/her different levels, age, their culture, sometimes religion, and their reality. Actually, they guide me to help them, learn about themselves, while I exercise their mental, and spiritual curiosity to explore their relationship with the world/cosmos.
When you notice a mind start working (even age 3) it is good to expose that child to the prerequisites of critical thinking . These are values, virtues, the natural world, a conscience and self-awareness.
A bit about me: After graduating with a Masters in Education degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and a non-degree study in Buddhism at the Harvard Divinity School in 1987, I moved to Thailand to study Buddhism. I have been living here ever since. In my teaching and counseling over the years, I have developed both curriculum and a unique counseling method which encompasses both Buddhist psychology as well as psychological astrology, and fasting.
Well, I never know if my comments will be read and/or of interest.
Many Good Wishes to you and your wife from the island of Koh Samui
#MakeCriticalThinkingCommonAgain
Funny... Will was talking about suffocating and 10 minutes left. I thought he was talking about BJJ (being strangled and ten minutes left in sparring practice). Maybe he was referring to both, but it's interesting how psychedelics compare to rolling in its humility development.
I don't think BJJ or psychedelics are for everyone, but I'm doing my part to bring martial arts training to my school community as a high school teacher. The more kids we can introduce to martial arts the better. Grappling gives us an excellent epistemological skill set, which acts as a reference point (or a hub) for the different academic disciplines. In martial arts, we learn intuitively about physics, biology/anatomy, psychology, and more, and these can become entry points for more advanced, theoretical understandings of a particular discipline.
Above all, you're constantly checked as to the limits of your own ideas. When a technique doesn't work like you thought it would, you have to hone in on details you missed. You have to accept that your opponent had a clearer, more detailed read of reality and their martial "gnosis", or perhaps just their strength, has completely overwhelmed your defences. If you're humble, you'll learn and your martial gnosis (total awareness) will improve.