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- Thu Apr 01, 2010 3:30 am
- Forum: The Australian and NZ schools
- Topic: Coming to terms with stupidity
- Replies: 110
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Re: Coming to terms with stupidity
I looked up "The Power Within" on Amazon. It seems like one of those books that deify the leaders. Thanks for the suggestion but I had my fill of spin doctoring while in the school. When I left the school I found it very cathartic to give all such books away to friends who are still besott...
- Wed Mar 31, 2010 8:31 am
- Forum: The Australian and NZ schools
- Topic: Coming to terms with stupidity
- Replies: 110
- Views: 206514
Re: Coming to terms with stupidity
MacLaren used to fly first class? Wow.
Who paid for that?
Makes a bit of a joke of the way they used to whip the hat around to support the ashram.
Who paid for that?
Makes a bit of a joke of the way they used to whip the hat around to support the ashram.
- Tue Mar 30, 2010 9:28 pm
- Forum: The Australian and NZ schools
- Topic: Coming to terms with stupidity
- Replies: 110
- Views: 206514
Re: Coming to terms with stupidity
Hi Joeblogs,
I like your thinking. The SES has a very narrow world view that they support by cherry picking various sources.
My favourite bit of SES stupidity is the way we used to hang on the words of the Shankaracharya and MacLaren. In hindsight they are just massively flawed individuals.
I like your thinking. The SES has a very narrow world view that they support by cherry picking various sources.
My favourite bit of SES stupidity is the way we used to hang on the words of the Shankaracharya and MacLaren. In hindsight they are just massively flawed individuals.
- Wed Jan 13, 2010 8:30 pm
- Forum: The Australian and NZ schools
- Topic: Coming to terms with stupidity
- Replies: 110
- Views: 206514
Re: Coming to terms with stupidity
Bravo "not convinced yet". At last I have found someone who is prepared to engage with the material in a questioning way. When I look back on my 20 odd years in the school the comment of my mum is most apt. She says: "What were you thinking?" She is amazed that I did not question...
- Sat Jan 09, 2010 3:44 am
- Forum: The Australian and NZ schools
- Topic: Coming to terms with stupidity
- Replies: 110
- Views: 206514
Re: Coming to terms with stupidity
I am not going to discuss meditation or Hindu cosmology with you because I think it would be like waving a red rag in front of a bull with your present attitude. Have a good one! As far as I can tell my "attitude" (as you put it) is permanent and reasonable. In the school you are asked to...
- Sat Jan 09, 2010 1:02 am
- Forum: The Australian and NZ schools
- Topic: Coming to terms with stupidity
- Replies: 110
- Views: 206514
Re: Coming to terms with stupidity
Hi Tootsie,
You believe this stuff? Would it be impolite to ask for evidence to back up the bold (and nonsensical) claims you just made. Sounds like eastern mumbo jumbo to me.
You believe this stuff? Would it be impolite to ask for evidence to back up the bold (and nonsensical) claims you just made. Sounds like eastern mumbo jumbo to me.
- Fri Jan 08, 2010 11:57 am
- Forum: The Australian and NZ schools
- Topic: Coming to terms with stupidity
- Replies: 110
- Views: 206514
Re: Coming to terms with stupidity
Tootsie wrote:What kept me in school for 14 years was the hope that around the corner someone would make a breakthrough.
Ah yes, the mythical "full realisation". A creature much talked about but never actually seen. What a pipe dream!
You can't live your life chasing after windmills.
- Fri Jan 08, 2010 6:34 am
- Forum: The Australian and NZ schools
- Topic: Coming to terms with stupidity
- Replies: 110
- Views: 206514
Re: Coming to terms with stupidity
My personal experience is that people at the top of the School are on a bell shaped curve with the mean shifted a little in the direction of weird, introverted and depressed. There are some perfectly well-adjusted and happy people at the top as well as some total dysfunctional misfits. But, I don't ...
- Mon Dec 07, 2009 2:30 am
- Forum: The Australian and NZ schools
- Topic: The Melbourne School
- Replies: 208
- Views: 368907
Re: The Melbourne School
Melanie is still in the School in Melbourne and has just recently got married. I don't know if she still does architecture.
- Tue Oct 13, 2009 3:02 am
- Forum: The Australian and NZ schools
- Topic: Coming to terms with stupidity
- Replies: 110
- Views: 206514
Re: Coming to terms with stupidity
I guess the teaching talent pool is severely restricted if membership of the SOP/SES is a pre-requisite. This becomes an issue in that most research on pedagogy indicates the quality of teachers is the critical single critical determinant of the quality of the education. The curriculum, ideology, r...
- Tue Oct 13, 2009 1:17 am
- Forum: The Australian and NZ schools
- Topic: Coming to terms with stupidity
- Replies: 110
- Views: 206514
Re: Coming to terms with stupidity
Good on you Daffy for your civil disobedience. This ties in with my point about discipline. The day school handles docile children very well. But children who like to think independently or who are strong willed are handled incredibly poorly. That explains why people had such different experiences a...
- Mon Oct 12, 2009 8:45 pm
- Forum: The Australian and NZ schools
- Topic: Coming to terms with stupidity
- Replies: 110
- Views: 206514
Re: Coming to terms with stupidity
The day school still has problems with how it disciplines children. There must be something wrong in the "teaching" on education from the shankarachaya. I had a child in the day school in Melbourne. She is stubborn and will not do something if she does not think it makes sense. She lost a ...
- Mon Oct 12, 2009 10:18 am
- Forum: The Australian and NZ schools
- Topic: Coming to terms with stupidity
- Replies: 110
- Views: 206514
Re: Coming to terms with stupidity
Thanks stiltrubld. What I meant to say, was I can't imagine how an organisation that was so abusive of children has got away with it scot free. They behaved in a way that seems to me to have been cruel, damaging and sadistic yet have never been called to account or even apologised. Even the catholic...
- Sun Oct 11, 2009 11:07 am
- Forum: The Australian and NZ schools
- Topic: Coming to terms with stupidity
- Replies: 110
- Views: 206514
Re: Coming to terms with stupidity
I've altered this post because on re-reading it I realised it was a bit flippant and not really what I meant to say. Sorry for any offence.
- Sat Oct 10, 2009 9:43 pm
- Forum: The Australian and NZ schools
- Topic: Coming to terms with stupidity
- Replies: 110
- Views: 206514
Re: Coming to terms with stupidity
Yes, congratulations on a year and may this site prosper and the SES wither. I have been reading of the trauma so many suffered at the day school. What I don't understand is why there have been no legal cases over this. Why haven't a group of traumatised previous students taken the school to court t...