No offense John, but education is a myth. It works for a few. All education is an experiment. If you look at the WORKS of the educated then you know their education was an experiment in how to step in dogshit.
----- Original Message ----- From: "John M. Knapp, LMSW" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 6:26 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Free Web Event: McCartney/Lynch Benefit Concert to Push TM in Public Schools > To be honest, I don't know if a nonreligious form of TM would be good for > kids or not. Basically, what David Lynch, with inspiration from the late > Maharishi, is proposing is large-scale psychological experimentation on > school kids. > > I'm not aware of substantive research on the long-term effects of > meditation on children. I imagine some will have abreactions, just as some > adults do. > > Just as I think drugs with negative side-effects need to regulated and > monitored, but may be taken safely by most people, it seems to me that > many people enjoy their TM -- while a significant minority have problems > such as depression, anxiety, dissociation, involuntary tics, etc. > > I'd sure be more comfortable if researchers would stick to experimenting > on monkeys and leave the kids alone. > > J. > > > --- In [email protected], "Robert" <babajii...@...> wrote: >> >> --- In [email protected], "John M. Knapp, LMSW" <jmknapp53@> >> wrote: >> > >> > The upcoming McCartney/Lynch Concert to benefit the David Lynch >> > Foundation will raise funds to teach Transcendental Meditation in the >> > public schools. >> > >> > Many critics feel this is a clear Church/State violation because of the >> > religious trappings of Transcendental Meditation. >> > >> > A group of critics -- including James Randi, Barry Markovsky, Meera >> > Nanda, Andrew Skolnick, myself, and others -- have organized a free web >> > event to discuss this controversy. You may be interested in attending. >> > >> > You can find the details at >> > http://knappfamilycounseling.com/tmconcert.html >> > <http://knappfamilycounseling.com/tmconcert.html> >> > >> Since the ruling on TM, back in the late '70's, I can see our school >> system has really improved in so many ways... >> Do you really think that practicing TM in schools would be a bad thing? >> Do you think that ruling did anything to improve the quality of education >> or the quality of anything? >> R.G. >> > > > > > ------------------------------------ > > To subscribe, send a message to: > [email protected] > > Or go to: > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ > and click 'Join This Group!'Yahoo! Groups Links > > >
