• Chapter 21: The World - The Spirit Of Education
    Jun 23 2007

    -In this episode: If we do manage against the odds to make something of ourselves as a species, eventually the universe will come knocking. We have a lot we might offer. We don't know what that is yet, but we will. I suspect it will have little to do with our technolo

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    33 mins
  • Chapter 20: Judgment - The Spirit Of Education
    Jun 22 2007

    -In this episode: In the end, it doesn't matter who we are as individuals so much as it matters that we all stood up together when we were called. We are all the same; we are all different. If we can find the synthesis between these two truths, then we've got it.

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    52 mins
  • Chapter 19: The Sun - The Spirit Of Education
    Jun 21 2007

    -In this episode: When our minds are clear, when we know who we are and where we're going, we finally sense that learning isn't really a struggle. It may remain difficult, but that difficulty a pure one, a challenge we set for ourselves as we strive to transform our k

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    51 mins
  • Chapter 18: The Moon - The Spirit Of Education
    Jun 20 2007

    -In this episode: Let's build a society where education can serve the purpose inherent in the word itself: educing that which is within us. Let's build a society wherein people are honored and valued just because they've agreed to come to the planet and offer their in

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    44 mins
  • Chapter 17: The Star - The Spirit Of Education
    Jun 19 2007

    -In this episode: Perhaps the future of education looks like this: perhaps it will begin with who we truly are as humans. Perhaps it will aid us in knowing our world, not only in a mechanistic way but in a complete way, with depths of beauty and mystery intact. Perhap

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    41 mins
  • Chapter 16: The Tower - The Spirit Of Education
    Jun 18 2007

    -In this episode: As we educate ourselves, we reclaim our power. Before too long, we begin exercising it. This is the nature of democracy, though those espousing their version of the term wouldn't have us think so.

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    53 mins
  • Chapter 15: The Devil - The Spirit Of Education
    Jun 17 2007

    -In this episode: We are not intended to be creatures who maintain a singular level of consciousness. We weren't created as beings whose purpose is to be entrapped by the world around us. The acorn is the mechanism of our intellectual and spiritual evolution.

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    56 mins
  • Chapter 14: Temperance - The Spirit Of Education
    Jun 16 2007

    -In this episode: Transformative learning helps us express our fullness as humans. We find a way out of the ruts that humans are so good at creating and wallowing within. We find a path through the blockages (most of our own creation) that keep us from taking the oppo

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    54 mins