Create a Genius by Stone Robert B. & Silva Jose

Author:Stone, Robert B. & Silva, Jose [Stone, Robert B.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Dennis Stone
Published: 2020-09-17T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 6

CONTINUING THE PROCESS OF ACCELERATED LEARNING

It is popular these days to consider education as the key to humanity's salvation.

There was a day when education played a minor role. It was the military that was the key to your salvation. One thing that can be said for the military: It changed with the times. The navy may have had to prove itself over the army and later it had to give air power some flak, but each service adapted to the needs of the situation.

Education appears to be a monolithic slumbering giant that is more interested in proving the effectiveness of the status quo than in investigating and adopting innovative approaches.

Oh, there have been changes. But these have been changes within the overall structure. Changes are crying to be made in the very structure of the educational system. And these fundamental changes are faced with a lock-out by the left brain boards of education, the left brain administrators, and the left brain teachers.

Millennia ago, humanity used its right brain more than it does today. People intuitively knew where to migrate and where to settle and where the hunting was best. Gradually, we became totally concerned with exploiting the riches, enjoying the comforts, and relishing the pleasures of the physical world. The right brain began to take a back seat to the left brain. In, fact, the left brain choked off what remained of right brain input - that input became the still, small voice that we now know as intuition or psychic ability.

The last of the right brain thinkers became known as oracles. They were freaks of the day. Even those who were still looked up to later on, such as the Greek oracle of Delphi, were considered with awe as we might consider a circus sideshow.

Education has nailed the right brain coffin shut. It has relegated such remaining right brain subjects as art and music to the bottom of the priority totem pole with enough funds to barely enable them to keep breathing.

And, speaking of funds, this action in behalf of the left brain to the detriment of the right brain, is endorsed by the funders of education - the local legislators - and supported by you and me.

That's pretty solid stuff. What hope is there for shaking these fetters and freeing the right brain? Very little, but there is some. Here are some isolated cracks in the left brain curtain.

At Stanford University's Terman Building, Professor Robert McKim conducts training in Visual Thinking. First you learn relaxation techniques. Then you enter what McKim calls The Imaginarium. It's a geodetic dome. You lie on the floor with about fifteen others, your body arranged like the spokes of a wheel. There are first guided meditations. Then the students are free to have their own creative fantasies. Robert McKim, you are on the right track. Keep going, but expect a long trip.

There's a school near Adelaide, Australia, where a special education teacher stays after school for those of her students who wish to participate.

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