How do we change things? Well, let's take a look at the organizational model of the
educational system. And then let's take a look at our model, watch this real closely.
Here's an individual with the five senses, and this is going to be the graphic illustration
of what's happening here. Person goes to school and what do they do? They hear what the teacher's
saying. Now you hear with your ears, you hear with ears. They're for hearing. Odds are pretty
good, if you hear you'll gather the information. Gathering information is exactly what it implies.
It's gathering information. It's the books piling up in the consciousness and you better
be conscious and aware of what's in the books because you're going to get a test and they
come along and they give you a test. They want to find out, do you remember what's in
those books? So they give you a test. Yet, if you answer all the questions right, they'll
say, you know, that's not knowing. That's not knowing at all, but that's what we call
it. Now, that's the way school operates. You hear
what the teacher's saying. You remember what's in the books. You answer more right than wrong
and you'll pass. Now, let's go the way we do it. It's not a matter of hearing. You're
going to listen. You don't listen with your ears. You listen with your emotions. You got
to get that right inside. You've got to let yourself get emotionally involved in this.
This is the teacher's responsibility. I got to get your attention. I get to hold your
attention till I get you really locked into it.
Now, odds are pretty good, if you listen, you will learn. You're not learning right
now. You're gathering information right now. I want you to listen now. Really listening
carefully. You are gathering information. You are not learning in here. You're gathering
information. If you're going to learn something, you've got to do when you get out of here.
Now, what is learning? Learning is not what school says. Learning
is not being able to answer the questions in the book. Let's say you learn so much.
What did Hoffer say? The learned will find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with
a world that no longer exists. There's no such thing as a learned person, you're either
learning or you're not. Learning is when you consciously entertain an idea, you get emotionally
involved in the idea. You step out and act on the idea. You do it. And you change the
end result. The learning experience is the feedback that
comes to your consciousness from the idea you thought about that you got emotionally
involved in that you act on, and it changed the result. The learning is the feedback that
comes to our consciousness. I know that if I think this and I get involved in it emotionally
and I act on it, then I'll change the results. I have learned something. That's not what
school does. You don't change days by fighting existing reality, you build a new model that
makes the existing model obsolete.