DWQA Questions › Tag: education systemFilter:AllOpenResolvedClosedUnansweredSort byViewsAnswersVotesThe National Center for Education Statistics charted a significant decline in literacy of adults across education levels in the period from 1992 to 2003. Alarmingly, they showed that 69% of college graduates couldn’t read any reasonably complex material with an acceptable level of understanding, and even 41% of candidates for higher degrees were not proficient in reading. Studies by Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa in their 2011 book, Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses, tracked students during college and found “limited or no learning for a large proportion of students.” That must also reflect failure of K-12 schooling to prepare students adequately. What is behind this dismal picture?ClosedNicola asked 5 months ago • Extraterrestrial Corruption of Human Institutions96 views0 answers0 votesIn human societies, it is almost universally assumed that parents are predominantly responsible for the care and upbringing of their children. It’s the parent’s job to make sure children are fed, clothed, provided shelter, and that their health needs are attended to. It’s the parent’s job to make sure their children attend school. Do these same parental duties continue to exist and be state enforced in the three alien civilizations?ClosedNicola asked 2 years ago • Extraterrestrial Interlopers184 views0 answers0 votesHow are population quotas decided and administered in the three civilizations? Does one have to apply to have a child? Or are they chosen to be a parent? Do they have any say in the matter, or is it considered a duty you don’t question if you are selected by some criteria you meet? Would this vary by caste and class ranking?ClosedNicola asked 2 years ago • Extraterrestrial Interlopers219 views0 answers0 votesIn the three alien civilizations, how much involvement and influence do the parents have over their children versus the state? Are children separated at an early age and raised in state institutions? At what age typically are they tested and have their future charted out for them?ClosedNicola asked 2 years ago • Extraterrestrial Interlopers180 views0 answers0 votesHow much does nepotism play a role in the three alien civilizations versus humans?ClosedNicola asked 2 years ago • Extraterrestrial Interlopers210 views0 answers0 votesBertrand Russell said, “Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.” What is Creator’s perspective?ClosedNicola asked 2 years ago • Human Corruption181 views0 answers0 votesWilliam Gadois said, “Stupidity is the deliberate cultivation of ignorance.” What is Creator’s perspective?ClosedNicola asked 2 years ago • Human Corruption182 views0 answers0 votesMany students, especially those earning advanced degrees, and who go to professional schools, need decades to repay their student loans. So not only are they subjected to academic gatekeeping for a number of years, but enjoy the privilege of spending most of their adult lives paying for it! What is Creator’s perspective?ClosedNicola asked 2 years ago • Extraterrestrial Corruption of Human Institutions189 views0 answers0 votesDon Juan told Carlos Castaneda, “When a man starts to learn, he is never clear about his objectives. His purpose is faulty; his intent is vague. He hopes for rewards that will never materialize, for he knows nothing of the hardships of learning.” “He slowly begins to learn – bit by bit at first, then in big chunks. And his thoughts soon clash. What he learns is never what he pictured, or imagined, and so he begins to be afraid. Learning is never what one expects. Every step of learning is a new task, the fear the man is experiencing begins to mount mercilessly, unyieldingly. His purpose becomes a battlefield.” This is truly a dark depiction of learning. Is this principally caused by the interference of the interlopers in the attempts to learn, or is learning itself, the demands of managing consciousness itself, difficult and hazardous? What can Creator tell us?ClosedNicola asked 3 years ago • Non-Local Consciousness245 views0 answers0 votesDon Juan talks about the first natural enemy on the path to becoming a man of knowledge. “Fear! A terrible enemy—treacherous and difficult to overcome. It remains concealed at every turn of the way, prowling, waiting. And if the man, terrified in its presence, runs away, his enemy (fear) will have put an end to his quest.” Castaneda asks him, “What will happen to the man if he runs away in fear?” Don Juan answers, “Nothing happens to him except that he will never learn. He will never become a man of knowledge. He will perhaps be a bully or a harmless, scared man; at any rate, he will be a defeated man. His first enemy will put an end to his cravings.” What is Creator’s perspective?ClosedNicola asked 3 years ago • Non-Local Consciousness214 views0 answers0 votesCastaneda asks Don Juan, “And what can he do to overcome fear?” Don Juan replies, “The answer is very simple. He must not run away. He must defy his fear, and in spite of it must take the next step in learning, and the next, and the next. He must be fully afraid, and yet he must not stop. That is the rule! And a moment will come when his enemy (fear) retreats. The man begins to feel sure of himself. His intent becomes stronger. Learning is no longer a terrifying task. When this joyful moment comes, the man can say without hesitation that he has defeated his first natural enemy.” Castaneda asks if it happens all at once or little by little? Don Juan says, “It happens little by little, and yet fear is vanquished suddenly and fast.” What is Creator’s perspective?ClosedNicola asked 3 years ago • Non-Local Consciousness211 views0 answers0 votesDon Juan talks about three other enemies to becoming a man of knowledge. But before we explore those, we know the fallen angelics and the billions of members of the Extraterrestrial Alliance are depraved. Sitting Bull said that depravity was a state of mind that is capable of experiencing pleasure only through instigating or vicariously witnessing the suffering of others. There is no other source of pleasure to the depraved mind. Are all depraved beings also fearful, or have some of them conquered fear as Don Juan suggests, the direct question being, “Are there fearless depraved beings?” If there are, that would appear to be a formidable foe indeed. What can Creator tell us?ClosedNicola asked 3 years ago • Non-Local Consciousness223 views0 answers0 votesDon Juan talks about the next natural enemy to becoming a man of knowledge. “Clarity! That clarity of mind, which is so hard to obtain, dispels fear, but also blinds. It forces the man never to doubt himself. It gives him the assurance he can do anything he pleases, for he sees clearly into everything. And he is courageous because he is clear, and he stops at nothing because he is clear. But all that is a mistake; it is like something incomplete. If the man yields to this make-believe power, he has succumbed to his second enemy and will fumble with learning. He will rush when he should be patient, or he will be patient when he should rush. And he will fumble with learning until he winds up incapable of learning anything more.” This sounds like a kind of arrogance, that the being defeated by clarity is one who thinks himself, falsely, as enlightened—falsely complete. Don Juan says, “He will no longer learn or yearn for anything.” Sounds like a lot of atheists and skeptics! (Which we know the ETs are.) The antithesis of humility. What is Creator’s perspective?ClosedNicola asked 3 years ago • Non-Local Consciousness212 views0 answers0 votesCastaneda asks how to avoid being defeated by clarity. Don Juan responds, “He must do what he did with fear. He must defy his clarity and use it only to see, and wait patiently and measure carefully before taking new steps; he must think, above all, that his clarity (his enlightenment?) is almost a mistake. And a moment will come when he will understand that his clarity was only a point before his eyes. He will know at this point that the power he has been pursuing is finally his. He can do with it whatever he pleases. His wish is the rule. He sees all that is around him. But he has also come to his third enemy, Power!” Fear and clarity (or arrogance) can interfere with obtaining true power. What is Creator’s perspective on Don Juan’s recipe for overcoming the second natural enemy to enlightenment—clarity?ClosedNicola asked 3 years ago • Non-Local Consciousness244 views0 answers0 votesDon Juan talks of the third natural enemy to enlightenment: “Power is the strongest of all enemies. And naturally the easiest thing to do is to give in; after all, the man (or the being) is truly invincible. He commands; he begins by taking calculated risks, and ends in making rules, because he is a master. A man at this stage hardly notices his third enemy (power) closing in on him. And suddenly, without knowing, he will certainly have lost the battle. His enemy (power) will have turned him into a cruel, capricious man. Such a man has no command over himself, and cannot tell when or how to use his power.” The mistake, it appears, is thinking the power is HIS to use as he pleases. He thinks he owns the power, rather than being a steward of it. What is Creator’s perspective?ClosedNicola asked 3 years ago • Non-Local Consciousness220 views0 answers0 votes
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