¶ Education
Index Entry
Education:
“All those who have attained high scholarly capability assure us that real education is self-education. They also say that this self-disciplining is most often inspired by great teachers who make it seem apparent that it will be excitingly worthwhile to take the trouble to bring one’s self to apprehend and then comprehend variously pertinent data, phenomena and derived principles. The intimate manuscript records of many great self-educated individuals show that they discern intuitively when and what it is that they want to learn. Thereafter they arrange to do so by four main strategies. The first is by self-conducted experiments, if they are scientists. The second is by going to those live humans who have educated themselves from direct experiences. The third is to contact through books those who have discovered and learned by direct experience but are now dead. Fourthly, they sometimes have recourse to the esoteric and often exquisitely valuable information contained within the word of mouth information system relayed almost exclusively from generation to generation by the directly experienced craftsmen artists.”
¶ Citations
- Preamble and Memo to Those Inquiring AboutWorld Game, p. 1. November 1970
