The Spirit Of Education

By: jeff white
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  • In this podiobook: What is education? It's a term we use every day to describe the process of putting 25 or 30 young souls into a cinder block room and filling their heads with what-all over the course of the first quarter of their lives. But is that education? True education is not a process of pouring in from without, but of calling forth what is within. It's not a process of memorization, it's a process of nurturing, of allowing, of evoking. It's a process of bringing forth the person one is meant to be. "...one of those books that provides a banquet, not a morsel, of food for thought." --education review Any donations made to this book will go directly to First Book, a nonprofit organization with the mission of providing books to children from low-income families.
    Some rights reserved, 2004-2005. Jeff White
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Philosophy Social Sciences
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  • Chapter 21: The World - The Spirit Of Education

    Chapter 21: The World - The Spirit Of Education
    Jun 23 2007

    -In this episode: If we do manage against the odds to make something of ourselves as a species, eventually the universe will come knocking. We have a lot we might offer. We don't know what that is yet, but we will. I suspect it will have little to do with our technolo
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    33 mins
  • Chapter 20: Judgment - The Spirit Of Education

    Chapter 20: Judgment - The Spirit Of Education
    Jun 22 2007

    -In this episode: In the end, it doesn't matter who we are as individuals so much as it matters that we all stood up together when we were called. We are all the same; we are all different. If we can find the synthesis between these two truths, then we've got it.
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    52 mins
  • Chapter 19: The Sun - The Spirit Of Education

    Chapter 19: The Sun - The Spirit Of Education
    Jun 21 2007

    -In this episode: When our minds are clear, when we know who we are and where we're going, we finally sense that learning isn't really a struggle. It may remain difficult, but that difficulty a pure one, a challenge we set for ourselves as we strive to transform our k
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    51 mins

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