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To: Sun Tzu who wrote (284671)	12/4/2015 11:19:03 PM
From: koan	Respond to of 541854

The concept in science that I have come to appreciate the most is called "knowledge directed perception". That means you cannot see what you do not understand. What I believe in, is the importance of feeding the brain information. I think the more information you feed the brain, the more the brain can see and understand. So that is a process, and I think that should be the primary thesis and goal of education. Because the stronger the mind is, the more information it has, the more it can see and the better it can solve problems. That is also why I believe liberal arts is the most important set of courses a person can ever take. History, philosophy, psychology, art, anthropology, psychology, math, statistics, and general knowledge. I also believe that the largest mistake people make is thinking that we only need a set amount of years. 12 years of primary school and then four years of college. I think a person has to think in terms of feeding their mind their entire life, from womb to tomb. And if we want to set some sort of practical goal for the average person, I would guess start the child officially at 2 1/2, and then kindergarten through 12th grade, and then seven years of college. I use as a measurement for these time frames, two things: one, research done on the "expert mind" and ten year rule, as published by scientific American and mind magazine; and my guesstimate as to how much education a person needs to see Zen and existentialism in the minds eye. It is my belief that a person needs a certain amount of information to reach critical mass for the mind to be able to paint an intuitive picture of both existential and zen in the minds eye. In my opinion, both existentialism and Zen are abstract concepts that require the juxtaposition of huge amounts of information, probably done by the right brain to create an instantaneous picture of reality. And only the individual can see it. No one can show it to you, or explain it to you, which is why the Zen masters, always tell their students that they have to see it for themselves. PS I think that Zen, is the east's, existentialism.