The Secret Of Real Learning

There is knowledge and there is knowledge.

The first one everyone who went to school is familiar with. It is learning what others say about certain things. What others may have discovered, experienced, thought.

You can argue about it. That knowledge is never YOUR knowledge. It becomes stored stuff in the mind.

The second kind of knowledge is earned.

Learning to walk, learning to ride the bike, learning to use your hands to write, draw, or feed yourself. Learning to play tennis, learning to swim.

These are entirely yours, no one can take them away from you, they can’t be forgotten because they are not mind-learning, not memorizing, not understanding, and not logical.

No one can argue them, it is not a matter of opinion, not a matter of point of view.

Schools, regular “education” emphasize mind learning. Mind learning is the great equalizer. It suppresses the other kind of learning, and puts us all into the biological machine, the controllable sheep category.

Almost all of us.

Some of us didn’t take to mind-learning. They call us learning disabled, they call us retarded, they call us names.

The closer you are to learning life the way you learned to ride the bike, the weirder the world considers you. The closer you were to mind learning the better people think of you.

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