Clinical Thoughts

Unity is the secret of progress, and service to society is the means to promote it. Unity is strength-when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved. When people’s behavior confirms the essential reality of progress, progress is not something we have been willing to admit to in public. History confesses that man must have been as free from all unnecessary conflicts/beliefs as culture could make him.
It took hundreds of millions of years to evolve efficient ways for animals to find food, avoid danger and interact with one another, but humans have been developing mathematics for only a few thousand years probably using bits of our brain that meant to do something different. We vastly underestimated the complexity of our interactions with the world because we are unaware of the immense computation. Our brains perform to make seeing objects and turning doorknobs seem effortless.

Constructionism is built on the assumption that children will do best by fishing for themselves the specific knowledge they need- but we still face resistance from mathematics textbook publishers, who are making fortunes by selling a product that has demonstrably failed to work, and from school boards who still think the universe was created by an old man with a white beard 6000 years ago. Chemistry practical tests gave me the worst experience when I was still in high school. In the year 1997, I still recall while in chemistry lab performing some practical tests - wanted to find out what could happen if you mix all the chemicals together and you heat them with the Bunsen burner. My eyes were so blind-not to assess the risks involved. Remember, every action has got a reaction! Guess what, my test tube went into pieces living behind unforgettable experience. Although the misguided views about usability still cause significant damage in today’s world, it does not give a sufficient evidence to stop you from trying to innovate - Because creativity is all about try and error. Always take chances, make mistakes. That’s how you raise your thinking capacity. Pain nourishes your courage - you have to fall in order to practice being brave. We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them. At a time when science education is in crisis, giving science its best chance means guiding children to the objects they can love.

Today knowledge is a commodity owned and guarded by the knowledge elite and doled out by them in various forms that they control, like books, news papers, television and schools. They who can get access to the knowledge through admission to elite schools and exactly what knowledge matters through SATs- but also through intellectual publications that true knowledge owners would be embarrassed not to have read. As I write this interesting article this morning, knowledge will mostly be free and the owners of knowledge will need to go into another line of work. It will cease to be a controlled commodity in the few years from now. I know you will find this statement weird but I will not be polite to you. I just need to tell you what I am supposed to tell, the rest will follow. Knowledge is in many respects a public good. As Ian [2007] noted,” Once something is known that knowledge can be used by anyone, its use by anyone person does not preclude its use by others. This characteristic of knowledge is precisely the hallmark of a public good and suggests that knowledge like other public goods will be underprovided by market systems” [P.201].

You have to understand that you are responsible for the hope of people, their hope for change. The true meaning of winning is giving. If I can recall, my first three words taught in religious studies while in the first year of high school were giving, receiving and sharing. The most successful business people in the world have decided to dedicate their brains and bank accounts to fixing the world leaving politics and politicians on the sidelines. Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, Richard Brandson, John Doert, Pierre Omidyar among others. Barry Lopez noted, ”One of the great dreams of man must be to find some place between the extremes of nature and civilization where, it is possible to live without regret”. These successful people I believe they have already attained the highest level of Maslow’s hierarchy of self actualization.

Problem-solving and critical thinking are rewarded, mathematics skills are enforced and should be taken seriously. Be like a star which never wavers from the crescent but is fixed in steady faith. What makes immersive 3D virtual environments the perfect medium for learning basic math skills is not that they are created digitally on computers. Nor is it that they are the medium highly seductive video games. Rather, it is because they provide a means of simulating the real world we live in, out of which mathematics arises, and they do so in a way that brings out and confronts the player with the underlying mathematical structure of our world. As Ian (2007) states, “The advent of mass communication technologies particularly global television channels and the internet has lifted the globalization of ideas to new heights”.

Life is permeated with possibility at every instant. What distinguishes one life from another is intention, the one thing that we can control. For instance languages and cultures disappear if they are unable to respond dynamically to changes in politics, economics or environments. Language dies when it is not spoken to a new generation of children……half of our living culture heritage will disappear in a single generation.
As James noted, “Mind is the master power that moulds and makes – man is mind and evermore he takes the tool of thought, and shaping what he wills brings forth a thousand joys, thousand ills. He thinks in secret, and it comes to pass environment is but his looking glass”. The result of meditation and experience is not intended as an exhaustive treatise on the much written upon subject of the power of thought. It is suggestive rather than explanatory. Its object being to stimulate men and women to the discovery and perception of the truth that:- They themselves are makers of themselves. Great thinkers like Steve Jobs, Michael Dell, Bill Gates left college to start their own innovations. I am not encouraging you to let your son/daughter drop out of school. The story may be different – may end up joining gambling or prostitution business. Normally extra-ordinary people are seen right from birth. Their thinking, behaviors and character are always different from the rest of the children. If you can identify your son at an early age, good for you- go ahead and develop that talent!

Our mouth is a direct extension of billions of years of knowledge and learning connected to every cell in our body. It is the way our body detects toxins, the first and most powerful expression of the immune systems deciding what can become part of you and what should not. Just as immune system is the line of internal defense that allows an organism to persist over time, sustainability is a strategy to humanity to continue to exist over time.