Wow! I have read Pema Chodron but I did not read this piece before. I was touched by this one. I frequently write about how closed schools and universities are for doing excessive training and little education for self-direction, openness, and development of curiosity and love of learning. I notice I am not open when I blame others for their closedness. I'm surprised that I have not realized this before. In conversations with Somik Raha, he has tried to help me be more open regarding this matter. I understand what he was trying to do more clearly now after reading the above. I do not know what I will do now except waddle in what I now experience as not knowing how to transform schools from training places to places where openness, self-direction, and love of learning can flourish. I will stick with this "not knowing" for now. Thank you for the opportunity to respond.Warm and kind regards to everyone, even those teachers and professors whom I previously blamed.
On Oct 31, 2013 Conrad P. Pritscher wrote :
Wow! I have read Pema Chodron but I did not read this piece before. I was touched by this one. I frequently write about how closed schools and universities are for doing excessive training and little education for self-direction, openness, and development of curiosity and love of learning. I notice I am not open when I blame others for their closedness. I'm surprised that I have not realized this before. In conversations with Somik Raha, he has tried to help me be more open regarding this matter. I understand what he was trying to do more clearly now after reading the above. I do not know what I will do now except waddle in what I now experience as not knowing how to transform schools from training places to places where openness, self-direction, and love of learning can flourish. I will stick with this "not knowing" for now. Thank you for the opportunity to respond.Warm and kind regards to everyone, even those teachers and professors whom I previously blamed.