"Education"

"YOU know we receive an education in the schools from books. All those books that people became educated from twenty-five years ago, are wrong now, and those that are good now, will be wrong again twenty-five years from now. So if they are wrong then, they are also wrong now, and the one who is educated from the wrong books is not educated, he is misled. All books that are written are wrong, the one who is not educated cannot write a book and the one who is educated, is really not educated but he is misled and the one who is misled cannot write a book which is correct.

The misleading began when our distant ancestors began to teach their descendants. You know they knew nothing but they passed their knowledge of nothing to the coming generations and it went so innocently that nobody noticed it. That is why we are not educated.

Now I will tell you what education is according to my reasoning. An educated person is one whose senses are refined. We are born as brutes, we remain and die as the same if we do not become polished. But all senses do not take polish. Some are too coarse to take it. The main base of education is one's "self-respect". Any one lacking self-respect cannot be educated. The main basis of self-respect is the willingness to learn, to do only the things that are good and right, to believe only in the things that can be proved, to possess appreciation and self control.

Now, if you lack willingness to learn, you will remain as a brute and if you do things that are not good and right, you will be a low person, and if you believe in things that cannot be proved, any feeble-minded person can lead you, and if you lack appreciation, it takes away the incentive for good doing and if you lack self-control you will never know the limit.

So all those lacking these characteristics in their makeup are not educated."

Ed Leedskalnin, 1936.

Disagreement here only with the segment on the folly of believing in "things that cannot be proved". This characteristic falls under the category of "intuition" and is actually most vital during this ending-cycle, as many of the things we are being exposed to cannot be physically proven to us at this time. Hence, we are to utilize our own inner guide, our conscience, our intuition in order to ascertain what is Truth, even if it cannot be "proven". Truth Without Proof is a major catalyst for stimulating the will to learn and the development of the Intuition, the Sixth Sense that will be cultivated by those who move on to continue their evolution in The New Race.

Aside from that, the late Mr. Leedskalnin presented a solid argument. Mainstream "education" is a nothing more than a jumbled compilation of man's poor guesses, misconceptions and outright lies. Truth, in this dualistic existence, does not lie on the "main roads". One must travel quite a ways off the beaten path in order to locate what was left there for us to find.

~ g