Teachers are not there to be like the authoritative figure, but they're really entertainers. They need to inspire you and make things funand convince you that you want to keep doing this. In thi system, there's not a lot of learning, just trying to get really quickly through all the school stuff so that they can leave school and then do the things that are actually exciting and fun to them. We letting things transpire as they are meant to transpire. Robert anton wilson's favorite e of mine. He says that when he was educated in the thirties, they installed what he called a correct answer machine, which didn't give the one that was expected
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