So… where I have you right now, is called “The Exoteric Introduction.”
Teachers, Parents, and Students — Educators and Psychologists — MUST understand the Perspective and Orientation of Your Relativity to Truth.
The Esoteric Conundrum.
And how to go from The Exoteric into the Esoteric where Learning actually takes place.
You skip this, and you spend your life on the Exoteric, never learning a thing. You are left in the Delusion that you “think” you’re learning when you’re just gathering information.
An Educator’s Agenda is to get the student INTO the Esoteric so they CAN learn. You fail to do this, and you have failed at teaching.
Many teachers do this Naturally — Music Teachers, PE Coaches, Dance Instructors — Now they have teaching figured out — Art Teachers — and Many Teachers do not.
If you Lecture, you are Exoteric.
If the Student is Doing, they are Esoteric.
All People go into the Esoteric Alone… which is why Logos is the Teacher.
Sit with this.
On Day #1
On your first day, you will introduce the Student to The Exoteric and the Esoteric Sides of Learning.
Exoteric is Ancient Greek for “Outside.”
Esoteric is Ancient Greek for “Inside.”
Exoterics mistook “Esoteric” for “Mysterious” or “Secret.” Esoteric is about as Mysterious as Quantum Chemistry is “Secret” to everyone who is not a Chemistry Student or Master of Quantum Chemistry.
No one is keeping anything from you.
You either have the Skills and Foundation to understand Advanced Disciplines like Quantum Chemistry or you don’t.
The People who don’t — Exoterics — invented “Esoteric” as “Secret” and turned it into a Cult… because they’re Exoterics.
Exoterics are Arrogant and Ignorant, usually.
Which is why it is so very important that Teachers be trained to get the Student from Exoteric into Esoteric.
When you buy a book, you are an Exoteric. When you read the book, you are becoming an Esoteric. When you finish the book, you are an Esoteric of that Book.
HOW to get “Inside a Discipline” is crucial to know for the Teacher and it falls into 3 Groups.
IF YOU APPLY THE HOW TO THE WRONG GROUP THEN YOU WILL NOT FIND THE ESOTERIC SIDE.
Which has been the problem for centuries.
The Three Groups are :
- Art
- Story
- Science
Art : Doing
Story : Discussing
Science : Integration of Doing and Discussing
Do. Discuss. Integrate.
Do you remember back in 1995, when the US Government felt “We don’t need Art” and they removed it from schools… And this was so horrific to Artists that we made the movie, Mr. Holland’s Opus?”
Do the Math.
And if you can’t, I’ll do it for you :
- Art (The Doing) was removed.
- Story (The Discussion) was never present to begin with.
- Science was left, which was replaced with “Discussing.”
And that is the Story of how and Why the US Educational System — which was garbage to begin with — went right down the toilet.
1995, was the year I fully adopted Plato’s Curriculum who had 12 Arts in his Curriculum and only 5 Sciences.
Plato disagreed with the US Government on the Importance of Art. Plato regularly graduated geniuses from his Academy. I felt he knew what he was doing.
When you do Art, you are Doing Science.
Art is the Medium of Science.
You take away Art, and you remove the Playground of Science.
Music = Logos
Cooking = Chemistry
Dance = Physics
Art = Geometry, Anatomy, Math
Writing = Logic
Sculpting = Engineering
Theater and Stage = Biology
Use Art to teach Science. It will cut the Learning time for the Student in Half, it will make them LOVE Art and Science. It will train their Mind to “See” The Integrated Disciplines.
The Integrated Disciplines. Now that is a topic…
When you use Art to teach Science, you just need the Metacognitive Awareness to give them an Exoteric Introduction to the Journey before you set out.
Do you remember The Magic School Bus?
Do you remember how the Teacher introduced every Field Trip before the Adventure?
That Introduction WAS the Exoteric Introduction.
Enter the Art for the Science. Now you are in the Esoteric.
Explain on Site : Metacognitive Awareness.
Discuss. Analyze. Look for the Wonder. Contemplate. Ask the Questions. Explore.
Explore.
If there is one word you need more than any other in Learning it is Explore.