--- In [email protected], Rick Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > on 3/23/06 2:16 PM, sparaig at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > Also, the TMO is working hard to make educators aware of the potential > > of TM as well as of the financing available to take advantage of it: > > They shouldn't bother, because as soon as the educators get wind of rajas, > Hail Mugabe, and rebuilding all the world's cities, they'll run scared. > OTOH, they may go to Mike Scozzari, Farrokh, and other independent teachers > who'll teach TM pure and simple, at a reasonable price. >
I work in a public school in a very wealthy district and here is the deal, at least at this point in time. No USA public school like mine will promote any technique like TM within the school, even with new and better research. They might be impressed with the research, but they will think it is up to parents and their students to do this kind of thing on their own (like get braces, buy glasses, see the doctor, get tutoring). Another reason -, once they promote TM in a school, then other parents will say why not present a lecture on Zen, or mindfulness, or whatever. And with everyone careful not to be liable for anything at all, they would even wonder about negative results. Not to mention the subset of parents who will scream that this is Hinduism ...Finally, with all these sharp parents checking everything in the world out on the Internet, they would have the TMO's number in a flash - all the raja and crown and jyotish stuff would end it pronto. What an uproar!!! I love TM and believe it would help most students, but if you want to learn TM, learn it. You want help paying for it, go to David Lynch. But don't mix TM and public education. It is a waste of time here in the US, from a common sense perspective, but then much of this TMO stuff has nothing to do with that anyway. PS The David Lynch Foundation website is really well done. HIs heart is in this, I think. A very generous offer. 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 <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
