Learning

 

People think that learning is encouraged through comparison, which is called competition and brings about merely to encourages envy.

Other forms of persuasion, comparison prevents learning and breeds with all its ambition only fear. 

Ambitions become always antisocial and those noble ambitions in relationship are fundamentally very destructive. 

There must be a cultivation of the totality of the mind, and not merely the giving of information, but a process of imparting knowledge, that encourage the students to inquire and to think independently. 

It comes into being naturally, when the educator understands that in cultivating intelligence there must be a sense of freedom. It is the freedom in which the student is being helped to be aware of his own talent and its motives, which are revealed to him through his daily thought and action. 

The whole process of learning and the understanding of desire is that the mind must be free.

Discipline always limits the mind to a movement within the framework of a particular system of thought or belief.

Discipline is the submission to authority, and such a mind is never free to be intelligent. The total development of the human mind is to realize ones own total capacity and not some fictitious capacity which the educator has in view as a concept or an ideal.

The true development of every individual creates a society of equals and not like the present social struggle that has no equality on the economic, social or some spiritual knowledge.

One must differentiate between function and status. Then status is with all its emotional and hierarchical prestige is only a function of very low confidence and no true spirit.

Intelligence is the capacity to deal with life as a whole and giving grades or titles to the learner does not assure intelligence, and only degrades human dignity. Most parents are concerned only with the cultivation of some superficial knowledge which will secure their children respectable positions in a corrupt society.

The urge to learn exists from the very beginning and that sensitivity can only be cultivated when the student feels secure in his relationship with his teachers.

Emotional sensitivities and intelligence are far more powerful than intellectual reasoning.