Welcome to the Learning Zone
within THIS Whole-Life CyberSpace Café and IDEAL Internet Academy
This Learning Zone is designed primarily to provide learning tools and enhance understanding about:
- The greatest need of society right now: saving a child’s natural genius and resurrecting our own
- The need for ONE common language
- How the human brain functions — learns, reasons, thinks
- Thinking styles of various cultures
- Different views of the same situation
- The need for Whole-Life Personalized Educare for all ages
Table of Contents
- The Greatest Need
- Obstacles to Personalized Education and an Ideal Civilization
- The Solution: Liberty, Universal Language, Common Mission
- Staying at the Point of Clarity
- Inspiration, Language Learning, and EN101
- IDEAL and IDEALS Acronyms
- Brain, Mind, and Education
- Early Life, Security, and Learned Thinking
- Context, Knowledge, and Truth
- Liberty, Choice, and Imagination
- Instant Learning, Media, and EduK8
- What Constitutes a True Education?
- Artificial Intelligence, Human Intelligence, and Hunger/Greed
- Triage, Memes, and Cultural Thinking Styles
- Mind-Mapping, Holanthropy, and “Software for Your Brain”
- Perpetual Improvement Thinking (CVS→BVS)
- Whole-Life Educare, Co-ops, and Open-System Science
- Memes: Advantages, Dangers, and Examples
- Robinson Curriculum and Hooked on Phonics
- Acquired Learning Corecept and Self-Evident Clarity
- Individual Sovereignty and Joyful Participation
- Why Institutions Fail and Why Co-ops Work
- Plato Virus Removal and Open-System Thinking
- Cognitive Science, Intelligence, and Family Control of Educare
- Learning Clubs, Communities, and Strategy
- Haven’s Nine Global Thinking Skills
- Media Coverage, Schools, and Elite Control
- Bicameral vs. Conscious Brain, Rights/Responsibilities
- Eden Paradigm, Family Units, and Economic 80/20
- Angels, Delay, and Conscious Choice
- LibertyZone and Cooperative Educare Links
- Top Classroom Concerns: 1940s vs. Today
- Solutions Portfolio and IDEAL Academy
- Separation of School & State and Related Resources
- Lake Paradigm: Open vs. Closed Systems
- Rights: Negative vs. Positive
- Failing Metrics, Grade Inflation, and Multimedia Promise
- Parents’ Role and Programs in the Educare Portfolio
- Contact and Participation
- Doublespeak, “Spells,” and Accurate Communication
- Urantia Note
The Greatest Need
The greatest need of society right now is saving a child’s natural genius and resurrecting our own.
“A new education from birth onward must be built up. Education must be reconstructed and based on the laws of nature and not on the preconceived notions and prejudices of adult society.”Dr. Maria Montessori, The Formation of Man, p. 97
Obstacles to Personalized Education and an Ideal Civilization
- Inherited memes that prevent clear vision and innate brain development
- Master/slave mentality (anti-life)
- Lack of accurate knowledge
- Lack of clear communication
The Solution: Liberty, Universal Language, Common Mission
Embrace Liberty, ONE universal language, and a common purpose and mission. We are all playing on both a local and international field, in both cyberspace (virtual reality) and tangible reality (real life). Accurate knowledge requires clarity and comprehension.
Staying at the Point of Clarity
How do we avoid blurred vision? Are humans the only creature that creates life-endangering problems, then seeks solutions that do not create worse problems? Do we know when we are being deceived? Do we distinguish clarity, confusion, illusion, and delusion? Do we distinguish sanity and insanity?
The challenge for We the People is to inspire everyone to:
- Be free from enslaving memes (anti-life beliefs and doctrines)
- Fluently speak, read, and write English (to have and share clarity)
- Embrace the premises and purpose within the 1776 Declaration of Independence
Inspiration, Language Learning, and EN101
“There will come a time when the proper education of children, by a glorified system of spontaneous education of choice, similar to the Montessori System, will be made possible… Education by choice, with its marvelous motivating psychology of desire for truth, will make life ever cleaner and happier, more rhythmical and artistic.”Buckminster Fuller, Wikiquote
One of humanity’s prime drives is to understand and be understood. We are learning how little we knew about children and educational processes, and that narrow specialization has often trumped children’s spontaneous, comprehensive curiosity (see B. Fuller, Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth).
We have the power to create a Personalized Education System. As of 1997, about two-thirds of the world did not speak English, which limits access to the ideals and blessings of Liberty.
Solution: A personalized, Internet-delivered, one-on-one method inspiring English learning that feels like a specialized experience. Expert audio voices pronounce each English word clearly.
Learn more: paradise-on-earth.en101.com (click the Demo link).
IDEAL and IDEALS Acronyms
Imagination is innate; consciously skilled thinking is not. A common language is a master key to advanced conscious thinking and lifelong, joyous learning. Consider these acronyms:
- I Do Everything Around Life Successfully
- I Do Everything Around Liberty Safely
- I Do Everything Around Love Sharingly
- I Do Everything Around Laughter Satisfyingly
- Involved Doing Elevates All Learning
- Involved Doing Enlightens Learning
- I Do Enjoy All Learning
Create your own IDEAL/IDEALS acronyms. The common purpose: to have Life and have it more abundantly.
“Never let school get in the way of your education.”Mark Twain
“The vision I had in 1950 of having my education in a suitcase will be available as soon as we wisely use the Internet!”Darlene Hedrick Sartore
Brain, Mind, and Education
The human brain is a physical organ — a “data processing and switching station.” The brainstem controls autonomic processes, the neocortex handles higher-order thinking, learning, and memory, and the cerebellum coordinates movement. Neurons communicate electrically and chemically via synapses and form networks: sensory neurons, motor neurons, and interneurons.
Mind is the subjective stream of consciousness: thought, perception, memory, emotion, will, reason, imagination — including unconscious cognition.
Education is formative: it shapes knowledge, skills, character, and ability. The Latin root of “educare” means “bring out,” “bring forth what is within.”
Early Life, Security, and Learned Thinking
Observe early conditions: in-womb, birth, first hours, nourishment, care environment, and milestones. Consider how security, trust, and confidence form. Consider the “baby’s will” to gain personal control. Consider when and where personal choices began. Innate genius unfolds in the first years; thinking is a learned survival skill. Nature’s way tends toward a balanced interdependence that values both “we” and “me.”
Context, Knowledge, and Truth
We acquire knowledge because of context. You cannot know a conclusion apart from the context that gave rise to it. Context gives an idea its meaning and identity. See: Objectivism, Contextual Knowledge, and the Correspondence Theory of Truth.
Liberty, Choice, and Imagination
With instant information storage, retrieval, and distribution, rote memorization fades. Liberty — choice freedom — drives human development. Designers choose rather than predict the future. Knowledge matters; nourishing imagination is vital.
Instant Learning, Media, and EduK8
Portable computers and the Internet put courses at our fingertips. English as a first or second language remains essential for peace and prosperity. Ask: What is it worth to have access to a system that empowers instant learning?
“My University in the Smart Media Desktop” introduces creatives across learning dynamics. Don Tolman’s Ynot EduK8 spoofs highlight the neuroplastic windows for language and the arts, and the harm of cutting music and art from schools. If learning is fun and at the speed of sight, you can finish early and live entrepreneurially on your terms.
What Constitutes a True Education?
- The ability to speak compellingly and engage anyone in dialogue
- Civility — courteous behavior, grace, and warmth
- Applying creative imagination in observation and learning
Ynot EduK8 aims to evolve these three teachable, learnable, fulfilling skills.
“Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.”Goethe
Artificial Intelligence, Human Intelligence, Hunger, and Greed
Understanding brain vs. mind — and how to think to produce desired results — is vital to a “Paradise on Earth.” Hunger and greed block focus and wisdom. Use triage: rescue the most viable first. Emotions may tempt opposite actions; wisdom chooses methods that reduce harm.
Triage, Memes, and Cultural Thinking Styles
Western thought often elevates “truth” (the Plato Truth Virus), while Eastern thought emphasizes relationship (the Relationship Meme of Confucius). Recognizing these memes clarifies cultural differences and the obstacles they create.
Mind-Mapping, Holanthropy, and “Software for Your Brain”
Consider Tony Buzan’s holanthropy: interrelated functions of brain and body. See Dr. Silvia Helena Cardoso’s “What is Mind?” and Software for Your Brain. Repetition of CVSTOBVS (Current View of Situation to Better View of Situation) builds neuro-software for better choices.
Perpetual Improvement Thinking (CVS→BVS)
There is always a better, more clever way. Escape a CVS, search for a BVS, then switch. Use “cognetics” to get better at anything. Attention controls behavior; noticing before acting can dissolve compulsions.
Whole-Life Educare, Co-ops, and Open-System Science
Healthy growth comes via sound family units, neighborhood co-ops, and lifelong communities. Use a scientific, reality-based, universally knowable system that holds individuals accountable and empowers do-no-harm free choice. Observe cultural memes, learn from them, and seek wise mentoring.
Memes: Advantages, Dangers, and Examples
A meme is any self-replicating element of culture passed by imitation. All schooling is a meme. Study memes critically; avoid harmful variants. See “BuildFreedom” for examples and “meme” searches.
Robinson Curriculum and Hooked on Phonics
The Robinson family’s home school shows teaching can be minimal and effective, with an affordable K-12 curriculum: robinsoncurriculum.com. “Hooked on Phonics” continues improving reading and math support with payment plans.
Acquired Learning Corecept and Self-Evident Clarity
When clarity or results are lost, return to self-evident clarity and progress again. Avoid inherited beliefs that no longer serve. Stay in the Perpetual Improvement Thinking Zone.
Individual Sovereignty and Joyful Participation
If it bothers you to be at the mercy of strangers for what you can know or have, this Learning Zone will delight you. If you prefer elite control, this Zone may still nudge you toward the joys of sovereign, far-reaching thought.
Why Institutions Fail and Why Co-ops Work
Peer-aged schooling and one-size curricula fuel illiteracy and violence. The Information Age requires individualized, home- and neighborhood-centered learning. Institutions are slow to turn; co-ops adapt quickly and preserve valued aspects like sports and music while removing harmful parts.
Plato Virus Removal and Open-System Thinking
Western logic has long dominated, but open-system science continually searches for more likely truths. Uncertainty drives progress. See Software for Your Brain for methods to unlearn PTV-infected habits.
Cognitive Science, Intelligence, and Family Control of Educare
Cognitive science examines sensing, memory, reasoning, and action — in animals and machines. Place more control of children’s educare in the hands of those who love them. Consider the impact of personal control on self-trust, confidence, pride, and responsibility.
Learning Clubs, Communities, and Strategy
Learning clubs are forming everywhere. Parents reclaim educare. Strategy matters: without it, winning is left to chance. New society strategies help avoid collisions between today’s realities and tomorrow’s hopes.
Haven’s Nine Global Thinking Skills
- Storytelling
- Dialogue
- Collaboration
- Bioregional awareness
- Ecological/systems thinking
- Design literacy and competence
- Axiology and ethics
- Linguistic flexibility and inventiveness
- Image-ination
Involve youth as equals, pool equipment, seek interns, record and share experiences, value humor, and get hands in the dirt.
Media Coverage, Schools, and Elite Control
Despite media attention to key components of a new educare system, schools remain unchanged because they serve elite consolidation of wealth and control. Authorities often cartelize to block consciousness and desensitize people to freedom.
Bicameral vs. Conscious Brain, Rights, and Responsibilities
Bicameral processing needs external authority and rituals. Consciousness integrates hemispheres, enabling introspection and debate. The right hemisphere is poetic; the left is analytical. Integration can be chosen even if upbringing was bicameral.
Eden Paradigm, Family Units, and the 80/20 Economy
Family units that cooperate around family businesses are civilization’s core invention. A cooperative “garden” requires unity in diversity, producing more than consumed, valuing and protecting each individual, storing surpluses, and tithing to charity — an 80/20 concept that manifests true social security.
Angels, Delay, and Conscious Choice
Delay between thought and manifestation is merciful. Consciousness lets us evaluate consequences before action. Metaphors link known to unknown, expanding comprehension and improving choices.
LibertyZone and Cooperative Educare Links
Explore cooperative educare starting here: libertyzone.com (archival mirrors may exist, such as AnEverBetterWorld.info).
Top Classroom Concerns: 1940s vs. Today
| Concerns circa 1940s | Concerns of Today |
|---|---|
| Talking out of turn | Drugs |
| Chewing gum | Alcohol |
| Making noise | Pregnancy |
| Running in halls | Suicide |
| Getting out of line | Rape |
| Improper clothing | Robbery |
| Putting trash away | Assault |
Solutions Portfolio and IDEAL Academy
Solutions flow through Educare paradigms, programs, consulting, and cooperative networking. If you know America’s success formula is being dissolved and want solutions, you’re ready for IDEAL Academy.
Separation of School & State and Related Resources
See the Separation of School & State Alliance (Marshall Fritz). Their “Education Liberator” hosts informative articles. Archives: sepschool.org (check current URL/status).
Lake Paradigm: Open vs. Closed Systems
A healthy lake needs inflow and outflow, a locus, and filters — an analogy for brain health and open systems. Libertarians may relate through negative vs. positive rights.
Rights: Negative vs. Positive
Negative rights require others to refrain from interference. Positive rights obligate others to provide. Libertarians generally accept only negative rights. Debate continues, but survival depends on practical mechanisms, not abstractions alone.
Failing Metrics, Grade Inflation, and Multimedia Promise
Functional illiteracy is widespread; SAT scoring has been adjusted; grades inflate while learning declines. Multimedia offers promise, but only when married to new methods and parent involvement.
Parents’ Role and Programs in the Educare Portfolio
Continuing Education
Adults can refresh or complete education (GED through advanced studies) at home and at pace.
Home Schooling
Affiliated programs provide accredited options recognized by universities and employers. Full PRE-K through High School curricula exist.
In-Home Tutoring
Computer-based multimedia tutoring supplements public or private schooling from the home environment.
Contact and Participation
After reviewing programs and links throughout this site, send questions or requests for more information to IdealDynamics@gmail.com. Please include which programs interest you most.
Doublespeak, “Spells,” and Accurate Communication
Words can cast “spells” through shifting definitions and doublespeak that obscure intent. Accurate information and clear communication are antidotes. Study tax code examples, media narratives, and institutional language critically.
Urantia Note
“Thus does the so-called Christian church become the cocoon in which the kingdom of Jesus’ concept now slumbers. The kingdom of the divine brotherhood is still alive and will eventually and certainly come forth from this long submergence, just as surely as the butterfly eventually emerges as the beautiful unfolding of its less attractive creature of metamorphic development.”The Urantia Book, p. 1866
Remember: This Site Is Under Construction
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