Hi everyone,
The daily quote is still on its way here, so I thought I'd post something about education. As a yoga teacher, it resonates for me with the way I approach this.
"The real problem in education is the educator. Even a small group of students becomes the instrument of his personal importance if he uses authority as a means of his own release, if teaching is for him a self-expansive fulfilment. But mere intellectual or verbal agreement concerning the crippling effects of authority is stupid and vain.
There must be deep insight into the hidden motivations of authority and domination. If we see that intelligence can never be awakened through compulsion, the very awareness of that fact will burn away our fears, and then we shall begin to cultivate a new environment which will be contrary to and far transcend the present social order."
Education and the Significance of Life, p36.
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I suspect that the effect of this problem (i.e., a wrongly motivated educator) is that the educator could, and likely is, creating a dependency from his/her students toward him/herself. By doing so, the students fail to learn how to understand for themselves anything. This, in effect propagates our unconsciousness rather than serving that which the "educator" professes to promote. So then, the truth again lies in understanding that we are both the teacher and the student at the very same time and that the intelligence in this relationship serves us equally.
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