conclusion

PENDING QUESTIONS 

            1. What is meant by the concept of, ‘Our Living History’?

            2. How do we learn?

            3. What makes an effective classroom teacher?

            4. What is the purpose of life?

1.    Most of our history has been oral. The oral traditions that were passed on from elders to grandchildren are now being lost to time, or are they? By exploring the ‘living’ within ‘our history’ I understand that history truly repeats itself. It repeats itself in both the phenomenological core of experience and the epigenetic expression of our evolutionary coding, (See Appendix B).

2.    We learn by creating. We learn by authoring the experiences of our present moment, we may reflect on the past, we may project to the future, both of these bring us to the now. Accepting the responsibility and blessing inherent in the present moment unleased the universal force of learning how to learn.

3.    The classroom teacher is most effective when observant, calm and authentic. The goal is to help students discover for themselves to learn how to learn. The metric of success that a classroom teacher should measure one’s results is in the ability of their students to discover for themselves who they are.

4.    The purpose of life is to create for oneself that which is within one’s soul. To tap into one’s deepest most core forces, we need to deeply understand how we experience phenomenon and what the creative forces that authored our inheritance are. Once we have done the work to understand our experiences, our core being we can begin to create for ourselves the solutions that life brings.

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