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The Idries Shah Podcast | Practical Psychology for Today
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What Is the Right to Choose the Student?
We find it difficult to convince le in the west that generally, we can work only with people who have been chosen as suitable for this work. Suppose some people are not suitable, especially at any given moment. What are we going to do with them? When we demand the right to choose the student, we are doing exactly same as you are doing in your own educational institutions. Nobody has a right to study an advance subject if they are illiterate. You choose a student according to capacities and previous education. We insist on the same right. But do you see how far you have strayed from the path of your civilization, your culture and your traditions in permitting the collec of people without
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