off_world_beings wrote: > It sounds like teaching is not your dharma. Off,
I have degrees in Education from Wayne State University, and University of California. I went to over ten jyotishis that proclaimed my dharma was teaching and preaching. I'm inclined to feel validated by the above. Not that it's a gimme. Glad that you had kids who didn't act out. Lucky you, sez me. I taught school in inner city Detroit, in rich suburbs, at MSAE, and I taught individual children in the TM center. I had knives pulled on me, had parents as disconnected as zombies, had smarmy high-hatting parents, had everything across the spectrum, and I'm here to tell you that kids in general will not be able to pull off quiet time for any longer than the MSAE kids. The MSAE kids have all the support from parents and community and all the dogma being pumped into them, and yet, look at my experiences with them. What can we expect from non-brainwashed kids? How many weeks of quiet time will it take for the average kid to chuck it for lack of obvious results? Not much time at all IMO. In fact, any kid who participates will run the risk of being called "mental" by the typical shithead miscreant kids that all schools must endure. Of the 2,000 people I taught, I often saw folks who paid good money for TM instruction quit within a week and never even come back for their 10 day checking even. All the persons I taught for free (not many but some who were in deep poverty) gave up TM -- if anything -- even sooner. So much for gratitude, eh? Charlie Lutes always made fun of those who thought that they would run away and just meditate in a cave somewhere. Why? Charlie said: "There has to be something that keeps you in the cave." Kids are not going to easily find "that something" that is necessary to keep them inside their "cave minds." The ones that do resonate with the quiet time will be precious, but not plentiful. Edg --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, off_world_beings <no_re...@...> wrote: > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com > <mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> , Duveyoung <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > Not many times, but enough, I was a substitute teacher at MSAE, and I > never had a classroom do group meditation in any manner that even > remotely looks like "quiet time." > > > > I don't know if they've finally "fixed this" at MSAE, but when I was > there, kids would be fucking off all during group meditation -- to the > point of laughing aloud, never closing their eyes, tossing notes to each > other, speaking to each other, and being haughty about it when I made > eye contact with them to "brow beat them into closing their eyes.">> > > > It sounds like teaching is not your dharma. I substitute taught in > public schools (midldle and high school) and at MSAE. I almost never had > any kid disrupt the class in any significant way. The old cliche about > kids getting carzy with substitute teachers just did not appply in my > case. I was kindof surprised by that in the beginning, but then it kept > happening in different schools in different parts of the country. The > MSAE kids were just as well behaved as the public school kids with the > wide range of diverse personlalities that I love so much about teaching. > > OffWorld >
