P — Prepare for growth.
PREPARE yourself to diligently REAP the creative ‘capacity’ for LEARNING LOFTILY.
- Preparing individuals and groups to live in a world of accelerating change is the purpose of education.
- Real education breaks out of the shakles of conformity pressure, to solve problems of modern LIFE.
- Education feed business with innovation, responsiveness and augments the motive of profit-making.
- Purely educated person learns how to learn, to adapt and change; realises that knowledge is secure.
- A reliance on process rather than static knowledge, is what makes any sense as a goal of education.
- Radical goal of education includes, but goes BEYOND, intellectualism, to include the whole person.
- Education’s goal is the same as that of psychotherapy; personal growth, towards full functionality.
R — Realise inner power.
REALISE that REAPING your innate ‘quest’ for LEARNING LOFTILY is in your ‘power.’
- Rote learning, as exemplified by the memorisation of nonsense syllables is utterly MEANINGLESS.
- Eschew learning which does not involve feelings or the whole person; occuring “from the neck up.”
- Affluent learning is ‘experiential’; it has MEANING and relevance; it is basically quick and retained.
- Learning in a real sense is self-initiated, personally involving, and includes attitude and behaviour.
- It is (education) evaluated by the learner in terms of personal needs - the locus is purely internal.
- Significant - personal, experiential - learning is one which makes a PSYCHIC difference to the person.
- Education MUST relate to Human Nature, by directly impacting on one’s personality predisposition.
E — Empower curiosity.
EMPOWER yourself to REAP your deep-rooted ‘freedom’ for LEARNING LOFTILY.
- Exploratory, curious, natural propensity for knowing, desirous of discovering, characterises humans.
- Most people, however, have an ambivalence towards learning, for it involves some difficulties or pain.
- Pain involved in learning is either connected with learning itself or in relinguishig earlier learnings.
- Overall, the satisfaction of boosting one’s potential overides the pain, and so the learning continues.
- When a subject is seen by the student as having relevance for one’s purposes, learning proceeds.
- Enhancement and maintenance of Self-Concept, are what makes a student to learn significantly.
- Reduction by as much as two-thirds or four-fifths of time, is made by learning a purposeful material.
M — Mediate fear.
MEDIATE your ‘choice’ to REAP the inescapable ‘prerogative’ of LEARNING LOFTILY.
- Materials which involves a change in Self-Organisation, seems threatening and so tend be resisted.
- Esteemed values, basic beliefs and affirmed attitudes, when questioned leads to a defensive attitude.
- Defensiveness may also arise upon realisation that one is behind in things, or is inferior in some way.
- Increase in resistance to learning may be facilitated by pressure, criticism, ridicule, or shaming.
- An accepting, understanding and supportive environment removes or decreases any threat and fear.
- This astutely allows the learner to take a few steps, or to try something and experience success.
- Experience is perceived in a differentiated fashion, and learning ensues when threat to the Self is low.
I — Indulge experience.
INDULGE yourself in REAPING your unexplored ‘ability’ towards LEARNING LOFTILY.
- Inhibition to learning is faclitated, or triggered by threat to the Self-Concept, and assisted by its lack.
- Negativity and threat disorganises thinking; leads to distortion of perception (a kind of tunnel vision).
- Due freedom from threat to one’s PSYCHIC security enables one to see the total and to examine it.
- Unthreatened, the serious student is able to “take it apart,” manipulate it, put it together and learn.
- Life or death threats can be responded to, with one’s powers, but threats to Self disturbs learning.
- Generally, threats leads to all-out effort to maintain the Self as it exists, but not to growth itself.
- Experiential involvement with practical (learning through doing) or real problems, promotes learning.
U — Utilise potential.
UTILISE your infinite ‘potential’ for REAPING the ‘compulsion’ of LEARNING LOFTILY.
- Under all circumstances, learning is facilitated as the student participates responsibly in the process.
- Truly choosing objectives and directions, one formulates problems and discovers one’s resources.
- In such a situation, one decides on and follows a course of action as a function of one’s experience.
- Living with consequences, maximises significant learning, which is self-directed and MEANINGFUL.
- Initiating oneself in learning involves the whole person of the learner; feelings as well as intellect.
- Such learning is the learner’s OWN, and becomes incorporated in oneself; it is the most persuasive.
- External or accepted authority - which are vulnerable to questioning - should not imprison you.
M — Monitor evolution.
MONITOR those ‘forces’ that militate against your ‘will’ to REAP LEARNING LOFTILY.
- MEANINGFUL and socially useful learning in the world, is the “learning of the process of learning.”
- Openness to experience as well as incorporation into oneself of the “process of change” is continual.
- Nourishing “change” is a central fact of modern LIFE, and therefore, learning MUST be continuous.
- Involving the whole person, significant learning creatively combines cognitive and affective elements.
- This is a unified learning, yet with awareness of different aspects; it separates not mind from heart.
- Obviously, knowledge without feeling is not knowledge; leads to indifference, and conceivably to ruin.
- Robust personal MEANING, relevance, and significance precisely involve feeling, attitudes and beliefs.