The flaw in the design of school. Knowledge and information without practical application is useless.

Just as one learns the language of one’s birth, one learns the customs, the traditions, the measure of values of that culture.

This means that we take on the form, as ideas, often built from past human practices, often determined by environment. This means how things were organized by what worked within a given context, as the surrounding environment over time. These actions, can be made into ritual, and practiced, to teach and to add to memory. Humans are so absorbing, we take in what we are exposed to, reflected in how we take on the language. That language is a mirror of the values of a culture, built over time, and often held onto as defining a person.  That  culture, where the starting reasons for the practices can be forgotten, because the culture comes to define itself as it’s built measure, forgetting why such and such a practice came into being. Unfortunately, within our present systemic design of placing power into the hands of a few, those few can use this- how actions as culture are formed, and how a human can absorb and take on a form through a practice of ritual without having any real direct practical experience in living applied behaviors in real physical space. Thus, a story can be memorialized as one’s belief, without any practice in effectiveness in physical practice. Then ideas about things can lead, causing an ignorance in terms of addressing changes in environment. Overall, what builds is a disconnect from reality. What is practiced within, is no longer aware of what is real and practical. 

The very design of a school mimics this. Placing children into a box, and teaching them through imagination, as memory, builds a measure/ideas/culture/tradition/ritual- as actions scripted out- that has no real practice in reality, and thus no practice in assessing and directly addressing real applied behavior with our living context as this physical world within which we interplay as adults in our lives. How can we really interplay with practical reality when our whole childhood has practiced placing information via memory, and then asked to use that memorized information to direct ourselves in a reality we have no practice with and as?  This is no different than having someone memorize the idea and pictures of playing a violin and then asking that person to go out and make a living playing the violin- based on memorized ideas. Obviously, this cannot work, and it is a mis-use of the imagination. It reveals how memorizing a set body of information without practical applied behaviors by action and design, creates a disconnect from self and practical reality.  One could say one is cognitively dissonant from reality. One could say that what is of seeming no-significant difference has grown into an elephant in the room, known as attention deficit disorders. A blue print of information that has no practice in reality- even if some of the info is valid or ‘ of a truth” -  a natural ability to process information ( because it is processing information in one way)  has separated from processing physical information surrounding the self as a child - where one learned to crawl all by one’s self- into processing a set body of information learned in separation from real applied physical behaviors in this physical reality. Thus, what may have appeared to be of no significance, perhaps a belief that the practice of using memory to learn would sort itself out eventually,  has caused a huge divide between seeing directly and being distracted by the information absorbed and moved within memory alone. A hard thing to realize over time, as those children coming from a more agricultural based society retained some practical application as their learning transitioned through generations into learning in a closed abstracted context in a school through memory. 

This makes seeing the forest through the trees difficult.  Yet, the behaviors around us reveal the story of separation. The problem is with each passing generation, the children become more dis-oriented, and the past generations as the teachers,  are products of this slow separation from real practice, applying one’s self in real time, which is the space here- this place where one gets things done. Thus, one could say, it is like a train of ideas and beliefs, and set body of values, like a language in itself, of values is something as a ‘ song’ or form, or rhythm running like a train in one’s mind, as memorized and practiced theory that then takes a child, who is on the ground, lives applying itself physically to learn to crawl, and is suddenly grabbed and pulled onto that ‘ train of and as a measure of information in the imagination’ - and asked to suddenly acclimate to that inner ‘ math.’ 

The children can see this happening, some resist, some accept, some try again and again to speak this difference, and eventually give up. That train of info, is raging not even seeing the devastation it creates in relation to this earth, this physical place where all the traditions and rituals were created, and then made larger than the practical, where one applies one’s self.  This is what is meant by ‘ as within so without, as above so below.”  This is why personal relationships are so difficult- they are differing ‘ cults’/cultures of measure, memorized and stagnant from applied behaviors in space, here.  This is why aging is really the consequence of losing all spatial ability in practical physical reality, that place where one applies one’s self to get things done. The math of the problem is right in front of us everywhere and every day. It is in that frustrated child acting our in school.  It is visible in a person who believes they have no ability to play a musical instrument. Such a statement reveals the level of disconnect from applying self to see directly the space of here, as the space of the info in the mind, embedded as directives in the body, as the hard drive of each of us,  that is not of a culture, as a set of directives, or values, that lend a direct seeing to what effective applied actions, as behaviors, allow connection and effective practice in getting things done in this physical reality. This overall, a very very simple thing when one takes the time to sort this out. Not something that is easy if the train of memorized ideas has been the practice, because it is racing over space, and very disconnected from reality. This is in itself a bully towards the children. We can no longer accept this, as that seemingly no significant difference from the starting point, has become an elephant in the room. The way out is to rebuild as words, one at a time, to reframe, or redefine each word into direct applied actions in practical reality,  and , this must be done through a focus directed out of that set body of running information, narrowing the focus of the mind/child away from that running commentary/song/math/culture/memorized-information and redirected as reconstructed into seeing practical reality directly. This means becoming a living word. 

The simple is always right in from of us. The degree to which one can realize the simple, is the degree to which one is running in a set body of information as the mind.  How great is the divide for you? What if one could rebuild this, to acclimate back into reality, into practical applied behaviors that ground one in realizing one can learn to play an instrument and that this is actually natural for a human being to do, as a human being has fingers and arms and legs and lungs that a human being can learn to direct and move, to master and apply just as one learned to crawl before a set body of information was memorized  and embedded as the directive information in one’s hard drive as the physical body? Could one say that that inflammation in one’s knees is mis-information causing problems, because the information is not what gives direction in an applied behavior, as a living action, that allows one to sense the movement of a finger on a sting? I mean this is something each can do, because that digit as that finger exists and can move. Can one see how disconnected from being a master of self, as one’s physical self, is in this context?  Can one see how big the elephant in the room has become as the information one accepted and allowed to direct one and define one within this. 

What if you had, from the beginning,  time and space to become a master of yourself as who and what you are as a physical human? Would that not be awesome! Is this not what the children cry for as they resist being in school?  One must forgive the shame of not realizing this, because that child, that is you in another life, deserves to be able to learn to master itself as what it is as a living being, to know that it can learn to play any instrument of its choice, as this is what we all want. Humans are happy when they are focused and  doing. The magic is in the doing. Doing involves full physical engagement. Doing means being present in the practical, as it is practical actions that build a house, or apply that finger to the string to make the sound.  Doing this in the imagination only,  creates a huge divide from reality, from real doing.  And this is why music builds minds more able to process information, it is not the music so much as it is the means; playing an instrument demands, by design, full engagement of all the sense- ability, where the smallest of actions are the most important because they define the outcome.

There is a reason we start with the abc’s and end with the SAT’s. The more words we know, effectively, the more words that are grounded in a direct physical relationships to living reality, the greater the ability to process information to the extent one can do, one can apply one’s self effectively. It is simple. What is difficult and complicated is the extent that train of information is running in one’s mind that has no real ‘ doing’ connection to the practical. It reveals the extent of one’s unhappiness, one’s inability to be haptic, to move as the smallest of means towards getting things done. 

We can use technology to help ourselves and the children. We can use technology to focus the child out of a limited and running chain of information, and redirect them to seeing this place where we plan it and get things done, this space called physical earth, and rebuild. It is the practice of the small, building into a blue print of being here, clearly, a direct seeing relationship to the practical that small movement that leads to effective actions. This would naturally create a responsive child, a capable child, a child who realizes they can learn to play that instrument and enjoy utilizing all of themselves, and doing so at a tempo had from the beginning before a memory of mis-information separated the child from applying them-self in behaviors that were of a successful doing in real time. Remember that joyful smile a small child has, that echoing laughter so deep and contagious- an echo of one’s real self. Imagine that never being lost? What if you could restore that for yourself, within and as having a tool to help you rebuild a culture, as words, within that was in direct alignment with real living applied behaviors? All those thoughts, of the past running in the mind, they are telling of where one lost one’s self relationship to real time and space. They are so consuming that doing the smallest of things appears to be more complicated over time, as that mis-information, over time, resonates because it will be answered to, no matter what, to such a degree that doing the smallest of things becomes difficult. This is the illusion, this is the veil spoken of, this is the persona of one’s separation from that original state of happiness that expressed itself in that deep and total laughter and smile a child has before being pulled onto a train running over the landscape of practical physical reality- that place where one has the ability to place one’s finger on a string and press that string to self generate a sound, in full physical engagement. And yes, it is that simple.

The tool to reorder the mind from dis-connection to being grounded and present, able to do a living math, is here. Let me show you, a parent, or a school, how you can self empower the child, and yourself, to become self directed, self monitoring, self able to stay the course, within retaining a direct seeing, and building a sound mind that never loses its natural ability to apply effective actions in real time, to become what is natural, a successful living human being, able to laugh as deep as a baby and smile with out any limitation.

Write me a note, the presentation is free and fun, because it is fundamental. 

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Intuition determines processing ability. What do we want for our children?

Let us look at the difference between knowledge and information and practical application and the imagination.

I can look at common core and the new math, for example, among other things.

When we memorize knowledge and information, without the opportunity for practical application, we can come to have a conceptual form, using pictures and numbers, and/or words to become a vision/entity/thing in our imaginations. 

If our focus is on this imagined form, and we use that to direct our actions, can that in-form match the living physical practice around us that is the very means and reason for learning something in the first place? Does our information fit, in other words? Can one imagine what it means to play the violin and then immediately play the violin? In this can we ever believe what we imagine before we apply what we have allowed ourselves to imagine? Does this not mean that knowledge and information must always be cross checked with practical physical application? 

In common core, the new math is simply a different way of moving the number values around. Or, a different way of deconstructing and reconstructing numerical values. Instead of 2+2 one breaks down the 2’s into a smaller value, as the parts and  then adds them together. And yes, it appears to be self evident to one that knows this, yet it cannot be said to be a ‘ bad’ because it is inherently what is the parts of a more compounded equation. One must simply know the code. 

And yes, it seems to be a busy- ness that is unnecessary to practice again and again and then to be tested on. This movement, or practice, in itself can be a means to slow down a natural ability to conceptualize. It could be construed to be a micro-management that inhibits a natural conceptual ability- especially for children sitting in a room. One must begin to look at all dimensions, because it is with dimensions that we are micro managed, slowing down an innate processing of information. Again, this is controlling the imaginative capacity, embedding practices that not only separate as that focus on this ONLY- away from practical application, but also, becomes a practice that actually stops what humans do naturally, which is to expedite the processing of information. 

Thus, this process of implementing a new way, or supposed new way of moving numerical values around, can become a device to train an imagination to move on a very controlled ‘ tread mill’ of allowed measure/value-manipulation in the imagination ONLY. Thus our attention is trained to be more in the imagination AND within a one-way processing that is a training into limited conceptual movement. It is a form of suppression of what is natural. 

The tricky thing is that the parts can all be justified and argued. Meanwhile, a momentum in processing one’s information in the imagination with practical application in reality is completely scrambled. This is how great the tools of becoming potent in understanding this life are, and yet how easily and readily a mis-use of this can cause all kinds of attention dis-orders. 

What is the main problem we have in our society? We have attention dis-orders. Because we have been doing this for a while, especially since the advent of public schooling, this attention-deficit  ( lol like our monetary debt) is growing. It is the children who suffer the most. Imagine being born into such a world?

This begs the question as to what happens within a mis-use of the imagination? If our imaginations, as what is informing that image and likeness of the information practiced, have little or no opportunity for practical application, or connection to practical physical reality, of living interaction, what can happen with that intense focus from the imagination and our connection to living practice as who and what we are? In other words, what happens when that imagination believes it ‘ knows’ something and then meets that ‘ knowing’ in practice ( from having learned it in the imagination, abstractly, only)?

Could one remember how this that is the imagination was formed? Especially after 13 years of being in a room abstracting information - as placing information in the imagination and playing with the forms within the imagination?  I mean look at this, this would be like racing in one form and suddenly moving that form into a living form outside of this inner form and expecting this to suddenly fit! How is this working for all of us?  The problem is that it is not working. If we respond with statements such as ‘ That is the way it is” we have become a complacency of fearing change that is a consequence of this same practice of which I speak!  Change, which is natural, becomes difficult within a incorrect use of our imaginations.

This requires us to look at what we begin to information our children as in their early years. What is prevalent are all the fairy tales? These tales, or maths/measure/value-system, are all about good and evil, or, a morality instead of practical real live living stories. Do we know the real story of the old woman in the woods who is usually considered ‘ evil”? Do we know anything about the overall structure and layering of the workings of the financial system of the castle? Do we learn about the agricultural practices? No, we are told stories about values of good and bad, nothing practical. Thus, we naturally learn to crawl, and walk, and then we learn a value system of good and bad. We begin our lives in the practical, and then we separate into building an imagination of value judgements, done by conditioning set bodies of information that do not tell the story of how that human being came to be considered bad. The irony is that the means to the end, as a morality of good and bad, without practical measure clarified- as how that old woman came to be who and what she is, is what informs us through memorizing the information via a story of measured and formed value judgements. This is just like that numerical value being slightly changed and practiced in the number values.  It is all a means of building an imagination in separation from living reality.  I have to ask myself if this is how the infamous ‘ boogie man under the bed’ is formed, or created.  And this begs the question as to the way and means of being able to completely manipulate others! And this begs the question as to why so many of us cannot read, or cannot process information!  And, why so many of us have a hard time communicating with one another!  the proverbial ‘ boogie man’ is our within information not fitting into this living reality!

In other words, an improper use of the imagination has us all walking around in a shadow world, in separation from living reality! We have come to believe that this informed imagination is more than what is around us! We need only investigate innovations created by some who have managed to exit this imaginative world or use it in constructive ways, to realize the extent of our separation. We need only look at the children with attention dis-orders to realize the extent of this problem.

I have found that many teachers and parents are very skilled at calling out the problem, yet cannot see the cause of the problem that is literally right in front of us, in plain sight! 

The solution.

Within teaching the violin, I always had to build from nothing via building an awareness into the structural means of playing the violin. If that structure awareness was well set, the child would begin to move with ease in relation to the structure of the violin. This happened in an exponential way one the parts began coming together. I would build an awareness of the parts, every part, not just one aspect, in a relationship with actual physical living reality practice. The change point would become obvious, because the child would begin to employ moving in all the practiced “ paint the fence” parts and begin to move in cross checking or assessing each movement because it was well known, and have the space to move into seeing the whole. This would then compel even more awareness and the ability to process this living action would suddenly begin to move at a whole other tempo. A momentum had happened, one that was of a clear inward perception of the structural means of expression as the tool as the instrument, to the point where the child could produce all by themselves in an effective way. Is this not the goal of education to realize measured  effectiveness in generating expressive movement in living reality?  Teaching through abstracting ONLY and then testing an ability to abstract  is very very limited, as the problems in our society reflect!  This is also the means of manipulation and control- which begs the question as to why that ability to learn to crawl, such a huge and great thing, must be controlled at all!? It is our very sensitivity and means of understanding.

Thus, because of an existent system embedded in consequences of a mis-use of the imagination, we need help. We can use what we have created, as our technology, to help us rebuild a stable and well ordered imagination as what humans use to communicate and inform ourselves as and with that is a ‘ thing’ about reality, and becomes our intuition. We can learn the code, as words, always relating them to a direct living measure/rule/quality/thing to build a well structured reference system as our imagination. This would remove the fear that is a product of a mis-use of the imagination, and ground our children into having the means to retain a natural ability to process the living reality around us, that living reality they naturally existed in when they learned to crawl and to walk, before the values imparted through story informed them of a measure that was not the whole story. Mastery happens within the interface of reality- just as one learns to play an instrument. 

Ask yourself what you would want for yourself. Would you want to become a person who lives as the limitation “ that is the way it is” or would you want your child to become an innovator that creates and lives in a way that improves all our lives? A child that feels secure in so doing? Would you want your child to direct the physical instrument that is themselves, beyond the crawling stage, into continuing a developing awareness of being aware of themselves and their capacity into a correct us of their imagination to create within an effective cross reference ability of this living instrument called this practical world? 

We are, even myself, a product of the mis-use of the imagination that is this present system. Yet, we can rebuild our focus, or redirect our focus and we can do this with a tool to integrate our words, by-passing a mis-informed imagination and then relating that word to this living reality, to ground our instruments as our physical bodies, back into a natural awareness of what is around us as this living reality that is as much as instrument of expression as is our physical bodies we directed into crawling and walking and talking and, unfortunately, accepting a mis-use of the imagination. 

I have been in a crowd and seen an adult autistic child-young man in their absolute frustration and mis0information, run up to an adult and violently push them down onto the ground. If you were that mis-informed child-young man/woman, would you not be so frustrated that any immediate means of expression would be better than nothing? For those who have not yet generated this mis-information to the degree of having an autistic child in relation to mis-information being passed down and accumulating within each family generation, would you want one of your children to have to live with having an autistic child? One could argue against this formation, yet dimensionally, this is what we are doing overall, and we all know it on some levels. Investigate the science of neurolinguistic programming, and realize we can rebuild ourselves at any stage of life. We cannot wait for the problem to become a part of our immediate existence ( in some ways it already is, because each town/area appears to be forming homes for the children suffering from a mis-se of the imagination into a compounded mis-information). The development and growing problem of and as these children/young adults, is costly for the society. The allowance of this development and its behaviors, are that boogie man coming to life, being what we have allowed to inform our fellow human beings. We as a collective are responsible for this. The means for each, on the ground , to become self responsible in informing the children we create. We can learn the code, as the words, to communicate a living reflection of practical reality. We can re-verse this trend of compounding attention deficits and and prevent a loss of attention, a natural ability to attend, to the living world around us. 

If your child is having problems processing information leave me a note and I can show you the means to rebuild a natural ability to process the living reality around us.

Thanks for reading! Much appreciated!

Education and the Law or Miracle of Compounding

Education and the Law or Miracle of Compounding

I had another person talk to me of and about a gifted and talented child this week.

I said to that person that the ends reveal the means. Meaning, we become what we practice as the math of our exposure and accumulative understanding, which in the present system is our opportunity in many ways. Because of this, our parents become our starting point, because the consequence of our exposure and practice as a math, as a belief system, of and as the opportunity/exposure of the child. 

In music, child proteges are usually born into musical families, they are exposed to music, a fluid math, every day of their lives. They absorb this, they imitate it, thep begin the journey of assimilating the information and have the 10,000 hours it takes to master something in the space of their environment and they become capable of that form of expression. Look at Mozart and Bach, they were essentially born into the trade of music.  Just like learning to walk, they began the process of integrating the form, the movement, the mastering of music as what was the exposure they had in relation to their environment.  Within this, our society tends to create icons of music, meaning to aggrandize a few humans who learned and mastered an instrument, yet there are many who have done this, it is not that uncommon. 

We do not hear the ones who have not been made into an icon, that very formation of one of a few becoming somewhat of a master being the ONLY one. I can say that there are people who have mastered an instrument and they perform on levels even our icons have not reached.  Creating superstars in some ways separates us from the natural process of learning, and also takes away a natural ability to sense, as that very ability that when given the space and time, masters such a thing as learning  to express with a stable tool such as a musical instrument.  

Thus, what we are exposed to and what space and time we have the opportunity to absorb and practice, as self generate, determines what we integrate and this determines how we self direct in this life. How is it that this process is not used at what it so obviously reveals? This is to say that we understand how this works. When a mistake is made, there is no place for blame, or negative impulsing of destructive criticism, because the only real direction to take is to correct as directing towards a self sustaining balance. Also, to realize that this process means giving the space to practice. 

For parents, this means that everything we do, every move we take, every word we speak is programming our children. And for adults, it means that our past need not define who and what we are here. If our parents did not understand this,  and we learned, or integrated some information that was not clear or complete in programming us to self direct in efficient ways and means, then there is only us to change this. This is the whole point of the Humpty Dumpty story. This is what it means when it is said that all the kings men, and all the kings horses could not put one back together in a way that gives self direction in awareness, only the self within one’s self can do this.  Any negative impulsing is a past of information  that was not an act of clarity, an act that lent a math that gave one a means to play, or express, or self direct with efficiency and clarity. 

When we really begin to understand this, and look around us, this understanding makes it clear that one cannot place a child in a classroom for six hours  day, for 13 years, and expect that one teacher with many students and a set body of information, learned in the abstract and moved into the concrete as knowledge and information only, will be enough to lend a clear and sudden self direction in reality.   Imagine if we did this in music? Obviously, this does not work and it is not working.

Our present form of education lacks any practical application, any real practice in living. It is to say, one imagines something and then is suddenly asked to go out and apply that information that is an imagination, and suddenly carry out that information in a multi dimensional reality/  Imagine- because, lol, imagination is not all bad!, playing the violin. Imagine learning to imagine what it means to play the violin, and then imagine having to go out into the world and perform, with masterery, just from having learned to imagine something.  Yes, this is basically what we are asking our children to do.  How is that working? Do we seem to have a compounding of attention deficits as we pass this down from generation to generation, I mean what are we ‘ seeding ‘ here? We can ask ourselves as we look around at the behaviors of others, where they are in the spectrum of the consequences of this overall form, and all the protections each has within them, because of some idea that we can be taught in a box, imagining things, without the opportunity for physical application.

We all can realize that when we physically do something, in addition to seeing and hearing and repeating and  speaking, or generating, that when all these dimensions of using our capacity are utilized, we remember things with greater ease. Instead we expect children to move from only the abstract to suddenly having some great executive function. We learn by employing all aspects of performing, it is in working with all aspects that we remember. Like learning to walk, we  have all the tools at our fingertips, and our natural ability to absorb allows us to assess in this, and begin to crawl and walk and talk.  How is it that we do not apply this to all areas of learning? I mean, this is so obvious in music. Anything we learn must be in the same way, that time and space to practice information as we learn it, is what allows us to correct what is a misunderstanding that is a normal process of learning what something is not, and what something is by nature and quality and degree.  

Getting back to the protege and the law or miracle of compounding. All of this means that a perfect practice, which is consistent and making-mistakes-is-part-pf-the-process practice becomes the practice our our self generation. We become the information that is us. Hence, the lack thereof is the product of our opportunity/exposure. Those around us in a degree of incapacity, in all its variations, and those who have some capacity, are the same ends as the ones we call ‘ gifted and talented.”  What is special is the means to the end, the magic is in the doing, the outcome is in the opportunity to do in a consistent and careful way that compounds to inform who and what we are  into effective human beings. This means that one set body of information that s taught into becoming a concrete abstraction about something in one’s mind only is an inefficient system because it lacks the dimension of real practice that allows that fine tuning inherent in self discovery, as one becoming a master of doing in reality that is of so much greater dimension that only imagination. It is easy to only do things in the imagination, one can ignore dimensions that do not fit!

And yet, because of this system, we can and must master our words. Because human beings use words to create placeholders of information..  This starts with mastering spelling, because if we do not master the notations, the notes of information that humans use,  how can we form informs of information and then have the security to use our spatial capacity and extend our awareness that is our spatial ability from within to direct in the world around us that is the without? If this inner structure is not clear, if we cannot spell correctly within, how can we spell correctly  in our ‘ withouts’ as reality? If we look around we can see that the means to the end, is so visible in the behaviors of the humans around us, and that punishment is not an act of giving space to, or opportunity to self correct. 

In other words,  incapacity is incorrect compounding of information about reality. And yet, integrating information is the miracle of life, meaning that a correct informing of a person, leads to a human being mastering life. This overall, has a sequence, we do not know something, then we realize we do not know, and then we practice which naturally is a process of mis-taking or correcting imbalances as we sense the boundaries of the qualities of something, and then this becomes integrated and we can function without placing too much of our attention on what something is because we have had the opportunity to understand that which we focus upon and can instead employ that understanding in space and time. If we do not follow through, or have the opportunity to follow through in self directive ways, we can practice an imperfect practice and create an imagination that does not fit into reality- causing all those cognitive dysfunctions we call dyslexia and ADHD, all attention dis-orders. 

This is why our thoughts become our habits ( the manifestation of our practices )  that direct our actions that end up determining our lives.  This can all be heard in the very words we speak because our words are the reflection of the math we understand, just as that musician expresses their understanding of the space and time around them in the very music, or form they express.  One cannot blame the instrument, it is what it is, and it is a gift in its stability as a physical object.  In this, it is the forms as the math as the words one wraps ones mouth around that helps one to see where one stands and where one needs to assess and correct one’s self information. Something no king, and no king’s men can do for one. Yet, this same means to an end is what is so cool because it means that everyone is special and everyone is gifted. Those who we call gifted, simply have had the generational background and/or time and space to master understanding, done in the same way we learn to crawl and to walk and to talk.  

Thus, the means to the end, is to be able to process the information within and the information without. Words are a means to organize information that in turn allows us to process information correctly. This builds confidence and self esteem which in turn lends opportunity and joy in performing, in creating, in doing what humans can do so well when given the opportunity as is evident in those who we call ‘ gifted.”  They are simply ‘ gifted with time and space and correct in-forming.  Human’s real gifts are to problem solve in ways that stewards this life around us in caring and productive ways. This is the capacity to consider all things and make choices that do not harm. This would compound into a reality where all children became the manifestation of what was unique and special about them, and thereby improving and expanding awareness for everyone.

Even the gifted ( with correct inFORMation) cannot reach their full potential where others are in lack. In reality, we can leave no one behind as this is a form of extinction of life. Placing a set body of information into our children, away from practical application in real space ( physical) and time, is causing a separation from processing reality and building a self directive capacity that expands awareness. We in essence are no longer reading reality, and this is evident , or reflected in our lack of word recognition and spelling skills.  Even a musician needs words to communicate their understanding as this is how humans interact.  This also begs the question we must ask ourselves ' Can we ever trust our intuition, or is the information that comes up within our intuition something that must always be cross referenced with reality? 

The Children Can't Read Means the Children Are Not Processing Information.

I went to an educational meeting this week. I sat and listened to teachers talking about various methods they use in their practice. There are methods to narrow the focus, and there are templates to order information. There are many ways to create such activities.  One example is to read something from the perspective of being within a certain role; that of a plumber, for example.

The conversation then turned to the real problem, The children could not read, they could not process the in-formation, conveyed via a code, as words. That code being about something, because it can never be the real thing. It is always a perspective about something. 

There are numerous problems here. One of them being that children can process information, so many know what is in-formation on the media about the lives of the Hollywood Stars, or the members of sport teams. Children can take in story/information.

Within this, there is obviously a separation from the in-formation conveyed in a school and what is absorbed outside of school.

Let us look at ourselves. Have you ever read something and realized that you did not take in a single word you just read? Have you ever been talking with your best friend and realized that you had not heard a single thing your friend has said? And, did you admit to your friend that you did not hear a single word they said, because you believed it would hurt their feelings if you said you had not heard a word they said? Did you then want to leave, to go somewhere else, because you did not want them to know that you had not heard what they had said? Is this not a form of skimming information, as in not being present, as in, if you have a look, that you went into your imagination because some word or some manner triggered a past event known as a memory- a moment in time where an action/movement/experience took place as how you reacted or expressed yourself?  Within this, a mannerism  is another form of words, as we realize our friends have personalities - which is likes and dislikes automated into the body, just as a perfect practice automates the ability to play an instrument, for example. We have emotional polarities of past events we have not cleared in practical actions. What happens is an associative mind set, that distracts us from a natural ability to focus and conceptualize what is in the present. 

When we realize we have not processed information, be it in the classroom, or while reading a book, or listening to a friend, we are in effect not present. Where have we gone? If we read new information, that has no living context, in relation to our experiences, then we have a hard time relating to that information.  If we do not understand this, it can have an outcome of a negative impulse, meaning we become an end game as a self definition of incapacity- when this is what was lived, yet we define ourselves as the ending point that lacks follow through.  We are in essence out of balance within ourselves. This makes processing information more difficult.

If we use imagination of our past, -because this can only be what the imagination is, a blueprint of our experiences - to analyze new information ( be it something in class, or a friend speaking)  we employ words - because this is the units of expression men use - and that information does not fit into our experience/imagination/blueprint, we must deconstruct and reconstruct our understanding. This ability is a natural ability, yet it can become stagnant. Our natural ability to take in form can become stagnant when we repeat a limited ideological system, what some can call a belief system, or a traditional value system. When we are caught in this, we have automated a measure of information. We have in essence mis-used the imagination. Instead of realizing the imagination for what it is, we have come to believe that our measure of ideas, beliefs and opinions are of greater value than that from which this memory was built, the world around us and our experiences within that world.. 

Have we come to believe that our in-form/experience-  information was more than what we are? We have forgotten that our likes and our dislikes are based on our past experience. We are in moving  pictures with a ‘ music’ or polarized attached value just like the music as drama added to story in television - these are a mindfulness of  memories and not what is actual, these are not what is living as what is all around us- be it a physical thing, or information conveyed through words, spoken and written, or imagery as media and video games. When we are caught in this, having not realized how this all works, we lose a sense of space, and begin to have more difficulty taking in new information, we have lost control of who and what we are, we have become limited. 

Our in-formation has been accepted as being larger than reality.  We begin to project our state of being onto reality. We then separate from reality and begin to make mistakes about life, moving into protection and defense of what we have conceptually accepted and allowed. When this is not understood, we stagnate an innate ability to process information. Our words are no longer the measure of their real value and instead trigger what values we define ourselves as. The consequence is a weakened ability to process new information. This leads to a consequence of an inability to communicate effectively instead of a natural ability to move ourselves in reality with skill and constancy. Our relationships suffer because of this too. 

We find ourselves outside of being present if we do not catch this, and when we do, we fear speaking up about it. And, most of the time, we do not sort out that past triggered by words/mannerisms/pictures/music etc- these associations to what we have accepted as beliefs. Overall, unless we realize this, and unless we remain present, and have the means/will to sort this out, we continue to do the same, and end up compounding this inner experience to the point where we prefer to be with those who have a similar inner blueprint, and/or we seek an escape from this tension/resistance, through drugs and alcohol. These are but a couple of coping mechanisms we employ. 

The research in education makes it clear that the more words a person effectively knows, the greater their processing of information ability. Meaning, the greater their degree of effectiveness in getting a job, in remaining in school etc. This is also why so many parents send their children into private schools, because they understand how absorbent a child is, and how being around other children who are more able to process information, will have an effect on their child. 

If one has developed/practiced a habit of hiding a lack of being able to process information, in any form, then this becomes what is practiced and will continue and compound until a movement is taken to realize how this works and to practice processing information- as the words and the pictures and the mannerisms that are signifiers of likes and dislikes based on how this works. A mannerism that resists, or appears as a holding back, or sudden reaction of rejection, or the sudden appearance of physical tension in the body, is an indication of accepted and allowed information in a person. These mannerisms are in essence, information, they are value judgements that have been practiced often, they are an incorrect use of the imagination, and they stagnate a natural ability to process information. This is called a veil by some.

The real problem is that we all know this. We use this when we scan a crowd and look for mannerisms that are similar to our own. We do this as mothers, when we enter a group of children and mothers, we scan to find a match, because we have not realized that we are processing information. That information we believe to be what is most effective, yet, it is more than likely what we are comfortable with, because we do not realize that we have come to believe that our ‘ inner-formation as information has more value than practical living reality. Our beliefs, opinions and ideas, is just this, our past experiences. If made more than reality this renders ourselves no longer being present in how this all works overall.

Our teachers in our schools do not understand how this works. When they meet and talk about many ways of narrowing the focus, and or mapping out information to take it apart, the one thing that is not matched to all the research that makes it clear what is the means to effective information processing is that the children must know the words. One cannot process information unless one knows the words - even if a person can understand something, if they cannot express it in words, they have a hard time communicating with others, and moving in society with ease. Words are the building blocks of a stable and solid foundation. In so many ways, we are word processors. If we have emotional viruses, as polarized ideas, as value judgements, we create an inner world that becomes an elephant in the room, as our within, and this elephant takes over our focus. The consequence is a separation from using our natural conceptual ability to process reality, meaning to process the words of another, and the practical steps necessary to complete immediate tasks in daily life.  When a sense of difficulty is attached to doing our daily actions, understand that one has developed an associative ‘ elephant’ of information within that is of value judgments and not a presence directly sensing reality. This entity of information slows down one’s concept of reality, living in this reality becomes more difficult.  One is, not processing information and is caught in a web of one’s own acceptance and allowance. 

When I did my student teaching, the one thing that was the hardest thing to teach, was vocabulary.  This means that it is understood that the hardest thing to teach is knowing the words. Instead, what is taught is chunks of information as ideas, information that is bumping up against other ‘ information’ that does not fit. The child is unable to compute in relation to their information and reality. They end up zoning out, just as that experience of not being able to process a text, or hear one’s friend’s words. Imagine this experience being compounded? Thus, one can create  many methods of ‘ narrowing the focus’ or forms to order information, yet, if the starting point is not having clear and living definitions to words, as the smallest units of how we form our information, and one does not have the ability to practice this, as a perfect practice to inform the physical body- which some call ‘ ownership’ then in effect what happens is similar to a group of bubbles of information bumping up against one another. Thus, as the teachers complain that the children cannot read, they are in effect not seeing the consequence of a mis-use of imagination, as information, as that personality of likes and dislikes automated and focused upon as being more real than reality. Also, what information is impulsed in school, often has no real practical purpose as it is a general scaffold of information - a separation from real living in detail in itself. 

Within this information age, where we have information at our finger tips, twenty four hours a day, our children are therefor, informing themselves as what they are exposed to. If they do not have a well ordered memory, which words are a cool technology/tool to be used as, then they are going to get caught in limited information which is mis-information even when some parts are not to be rejected because they are essentially good.  This limited inform, causes insecurity - a consequence of mistakes based on using that limited information to direct their actions; actions that are based on that information only, without using that innate ability to process space and time, within and without seeing and referencing in all their interactions in their daily living. 

If our children do not know their words, if their words trigger emotional polarities based on not understanding how this works,  or, not standing up within how this works,  then that skimming event happens where we do not take in the information, or that resistance and consequence ( as habits practiced become automated)  of self judgement of not being good enough in school, turning into a personality of likes and dislikes, instead of making choices based on what would lead to effectively processing information with  practical discernment and living a productive and effective life. 

We can come up with ideological techniques, such as “ keeping tasks within arms reach” and believe in the promise of such new concepts, that are really regurgitated methods, and not see the forest through the trees. We are, when we get excited about a supposedly ‘ new’ method, falling into a hope which is an emotional polarity, because we have defined ourselves as teachers, as a caregiver personality, missing the whole way in which this all works. We have to give up our own self value judgements and ground ourselves back into the practice of real living, where humans use words, a technology to order the practical as a means to focus ourselves with presence in the practical actions we need to understand and realize  effective and productive lives. 

If one does not know the notes/words, no instrument of generation , such as a template or device to narrow the focus, or ‘ idea’ such as keeping things small ONLY, is going to be what sorts out the emotional polarities that are a consequence of a lack of understanding how this all works. In such instances, where prevention is the best cure, the student must rebuild and understand that they must know the words, the vocabulary, as this is/are the ‘ notes’ that fill the graph that enables the child to form the tune/information, to then assess within and in real living space as the world in which that child comes to be an adult. Our imagination must be realized as what it is, and reality around us, must become what we reference. A well ordered blueprint of information allows a child to retain a natural ability to assess the world around them and their experiences at the same time. This is a retention of a natural spatial ability. Spatial ability is lost, if personality ( personification of ideas as value judgements)  becomes larger than life.

As adults, we can realize how we are caught in this web of cognitive dissonance, this separation from processing information, in media, in books, as the words and stories of our friends. We adults can realize our separation from processing in ways that allows us to remain present through a lack of presence. When it becomes more difficult to drive a car as we age, or it becomes more difficult to read information outside of a comfort zone, or it becomes harder to sit in a school meeting, or it becomes harder to finish a task, or read that newspaper article all the way to the end, or realize how difficult it can be to shift without becoming annoyed at sudden events that happen in our daily lives. We can see where that negative impulsing as a belief appears so real, we take what someone has said personally as though it is a threat to who we are, losing all spatial ability to process in ways that lead directly to problem solving.  

We have become the behaviors of separation from the practice of living..  Our words have become polarized and trigger past events that exist because they moved in self interest instead of what considered the real world around us.  In other words, the information we have defined ourselves as does not fit into being present and practical.  Instead of looking at the real value/measure/math of each word, we follow ideas that appear to be full of promise, yet lack a direct seeing into the small details that build the whole. We must be able to process words with ease, to realize patterns, and conceptualize with greater clarity, and remain present in the reality in which we live. The joy of this is that when we know our words, effectively, we retain a greater degree of spatial ability because we have developed a self trust in our relationship to being present in this reality. After all, this is where we live our lives.  The research in education substantiates this realization. 

Thus, the ability to process the code, as words, is the greatest gift we can give our children. This has the value of building a sound and stable character. Imagine if you had really known your words, where each unit of measure was clear, no longer triggering the emotional reactions due to a lack of understanding how this all works? What would your communication skills be? How would your relationships function? Would you have a greater ability to see both the forest and the trees at the same time? Meaning, to see the state of being as information within, and where that state of being, a measure, was disconnected from the living reality around us? Would you be more of a master of yourself? Would your focus improve to such a degree that you seldom missed what was conveyed in words around you, or self realize when something was new and needed more investigation without fearing to speak up and say this?  Do you have an effective vocabulary? 

We are the words we effectively know.

Why is vocabulary development a key to self responsibility?

Blame has an inverse relationship to accountability.

We begin with the abc’s and end with the SAT. This parameter is to learn all language and communication skills, because humans use language to communicate and share perspective, which is measure. It is all really a math, as inherent in the statement ‘ blame has an inverse relationship to accountability’  reveals. Our coping mechanism behaviors are a form of protection in relation to having defined ourselves as a measure of lack. Often they manifest as blame, self aggrandizement or self justification. In the end, all are blame, because they are not problem solving.

It is understood that we can build neurons throughout our lives. It is understood that perfect practice makes perfect, hence, what does an imperfect practice? Do we inform ourselves as the measure of what we believe just as we inform ourselves as that perfect practice that leads to a greater degree of self responsibility? Are the accompanying thoughts of lack , as mindfulness reveals, simply the reflection of what we have informed ourselves as in measure? Can an  imperfect practice become what is practiced or automated and would it manifest as a behavior of resisting change because it is caught in a self perpetuating measure of belief that is not what gives a sustainable self responsibility?

The research in education makes this very clear as well. When our foundations, as those foundational years in childhood, are lacking in effective vocabulary, which is exposure to varied measure, our ability to process information is slower.  The inverse of this is, the greater one’s ability to process information is determined on the words we know effectively. The children who lack this development tend to be left behind, and those who have a large vocabulary, tend to become bored.  

And yet, again, all children, at least the majority, learn to crawl and to walk, they are not born with religion or classism, they are born absorbing their world around them. When that world lacks  an effective vocabulary, the children have less self response ability and  more stress in abstracting information in a school.  Those who lack the kind of inner structure that the more effective vocabulary in other children impart,  end up comparing their lack to others, and develop coping behaviors to enable them to fit into the system. Coping mechanisms only distracts from a real development because it occupies the focus of the child. Do these children reach their full potential? No, they spend their lives accepting a lack. Meanwhile the ends to the mean is always right in front of us.

Our children have a natural learning ability, and they require a stable structural development to be self responsible in this world. Such a development would benefit everyone in the society. 

It is right there in front of us, that a sound mind is structured through words, through an effective vocabulary. It is right in front of us that a perfect practice in being able to spell all the vocabulary from kindergarten to grade 12 would impart a self empowering inner structure and that the outcome would allow the child to reach their full potential. This would benefit the community. This understanding would empower parents to become responsible for the development of their child, so that when the child went to school, they could develop self esteem in processing information. What kind of home life would this create? A home with the stress of raising a child removed!

Once a child can practice a perfect practice, in a steady and consistent manner, their spelling of words, recognizing patterns in words, would enable them to step out of a fear of processing information based on an idea of lack in relation to this, and allow the child to focus more on defining the words, because a fear of the picture as the words, would no longer exist.  And, because this simple understanding has not been understood, technology can be a stable point in a world where we adults have somehow missed this point and are caught in the consequences of not understanding this in thought and word and deed.

A child who lacks self respect has  a hard time looking another in the eyes. A child who lacks structure, has a hard time being self disciplined. A child who lacks the ability to spell words, has a hard time processing information. A child who defines themselves as the lack, hides from the world, and will tend more towards drugs and alcohol, as this is an escape from the stress of a mind in chaos. 

We humans are social beings, we love to participate. Any middle school teacher can see that all the behaviors in middle school have an underlying voice, and that is an immense desire to participate. Why?  Because it is fun to participate! Learning is fun! Self definitions of lack, accumulating in a measure  that is a behavior of resistance causing consequences of limitation in relation to being socially engaged, is not fun. This is an unhappy child.

If our children learned their words, the SAT would be easy, as it should be. The behaviors of such a child, would be a child with the structural means, because humans use language - which is words- to be self accountable. Being self accountable is being self responsible, the opposite of blame. Instead the behavior would be a sound character who solves problems. Such a child would have a dynamic mind, and a synergistic thinking that no longer moved in limited associative thinking.  

What automated the child would be a clear thinking, that could self monitor and at the same time see directly others in their world. I would call this a quantum thinking or seeing. Instead of a limited behavior of self defense in fear of being considered less, a child could be open and realize themselves within and the world without. This is a child comfortable with the world, one willing to participate in life.  This is building  the means towards behaviors of self esteem and self confidence. This is a child raising their hand and participating! Is this not what we want for all of our children, and would this not benefit each of us. Who would not want to give this to a child?

It is a math, and it is simple, and it is right there in front of us. Somehow, we have allowed friction and conflict in arguing over the means to the end, losing sight of the whole mechanism. We argue over small steps/means in a natural process within that parameter of learning our abc’s and becoming effective communicators in adulthood.  This is a loss in a natural spatial ability inherent in children.

We can, with technology, rebuild our minds, rebuild our neurological networks, with words. We can effectively know our words so well that we can choose and be whatever we want. We then can restore a natural quantum ability to self monitor and assess the world around us, so we direct ourselves without fear, and face all situations coming up with new ways of doing things that is what is natural to each of us, and what makes each of us so unique and special. We all want to participate in our society, it is our real and natural state. 

In this age of information, it is necessary that our children are exposed to a broad vocabulary, learn to spell their words well, and have the means for a perfect and consistent practice within this. Because our schools by design cannot do this, and parents are too busy to do this,  we can use technology to become the means to achieve this. What is so special about this, is that it self empowers the child! They can do this themselves given a tool that monitors this development, allowing that child that needs a greater degree of practice the necessary practice and that child that has some negative emotional associations the chance to move beyond such negative definitions because they can build a clean and clear neurological framework in relation to words. Technology is stable and consistent. It is the perfect means to give a perfect and consistent practice!

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What are the behaviors of an imperfect practice? What are our seeds of information?

The starting point reveals the ending point.

Why does education begin with the abc’s and end with the SAT?

How are we informed? What does sport development reveal? What does what informs a musician reveal about how we work, that which is hidden in plain sight?

How does this translate into a child with a slow processing speed?

What are the ‘ terrible twos’? Is it the seeds of information from a previous generation resonating?

Why do we not see the ends reveal the means? Or, the means  ( a measure) reveal the end/outcome?

Why is there so much busy-ness between the starting point of abc and the ending point of the SAT? Why is what is simple, made so complicated? 

What is a personality dis-oder?

What is cognitive dissonance?

Why do words refine thought?

Why did you look around the room hoping someone else would raise their hand in class because you did not have the means of communication as words, structured within you, to be able to respond? Why could you not SPELL out the answer? 

Had you practiced the 10,000 hours of mastering your abcs so that you are prepared for the SAT, so you could further your education and get a good job, so your parents would not have to take care of you? And, so that you could help your parents when they were older?

What dos all this mean? What does this look like in personification?

I worked with a girl who was very behind in her ability to participate in the world without extensive help.

In the beginning, there was a moment where she looked at me and asked me to praise her.  In that moment I was shocked. Me, who had taken years of one-on-one violin lessons, where this would not be allowed, because the proof was in the generation of the notes. The value was in generating the music, it spoke for itself. One knew when one was clear, balanced, the measure of sound stable and clear. Praise or reprimand did not necessarily come into it. It was more a sense of ease and a smile, when something hit clarity. There was no need for praise. Hard to believe, but in some ways, needing to praise is in itself a red flag. A joy interaction and discovery is its own reward.

Thus, I reminded the girl that she had been working hard, and that what she had learned was something that is on going, we refine and improve over our lives.  She calmed down and moved forward.

Yet, that emotional reaction and that intense desire for praise, as an answer to feeling overwhelmed within change , even change that happened step by small step laid bare the experiences this young woman had lived. The very measure of her experience.

Had she ever self generated? Had she ever really had the opportunity to self monitor?  And what gains she made been so slow that she held her gains as an accomplishment from a starting point of of such inner chaos that this became an entity within her, as a belief, that the very idea of further development had to move through all that past experience of a slow gain, and the constant praise that motivated her, causing a measure a ‘ order of practice’ that became something she felt comfortable moving within, the boundaries of this when changed upset the whole movement of her? Quite the construct!

Gently, the process of learning words was again structured, to give the means to move forward. Each word practiced, to remove all these associations built from past practices, and the opportunity to self monitor and generate what the abc’s do that can lead to a level of word recognition and meaning generation necessary to survive in our modern world of information. 

A few days later, this girl was doing this on her own. She was no longer moving into emotional reactions, personas of the past. She would sit, and when she missed a word, slump in her chair. But, only for a moment. She then, without begging for praise, sat up, and moved onto the next word. This word she happened to catch. All that information, because we seed into ownership an imperfect practice just as we seed a perfect practice,  from her past she moved through on her own and she caught the word. Then she went into joy, her own self generated joy. Her body , so full of misinformation, tensed up, and yet there, within her, came the smallest of sounds, expressing her joy, all on her own, for herself, that she had typed the word correctly.  And that was the beginning of the end, a move into a perfect practice that rebuilt that memory of experiences into an order that could become grounded in more and more self confidence to follow through and become the master of self. Is this not the gift we all owe to our children?

If you want to experience what this is about, please send me a note, in the response box. If you want a presentation, please contact with a request - I will not post the responses.  I also give presentations to groups.  If we want to get this world in order, it starts within each of us. And, since humans use language,  that and with the help of technology, we have the tools to order a perfect mind. Then, just like the leaves on a tree, we will find that we all fit, and that each expression is here in support of us all, it is after all a symbiotic physical world.  It is our responsibility to ensure that our children reach their full potential. What would it feel like, for a parent, to be self empowered to and towards this goal? After all, learning is natural, and we are each incredible machines able to learn what ever we want, once we understand what is hidden in plain sight. 

Abracadabra, we are the words we effectively know. We grow into the tree of what measure/word we allow to inform us. Does your persona fit into effective behaviors that lead to success and a good paying job?