Re: Education is a gift of love. Treasure it as such... -- utopia2000

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Date Posted: 20:05:57 11/08/00 Wed
Author: William Bevington
Subject: Re: Education is a gift of love. Treasure it as such...
In reply to: niclas engsall 's message, "Education is a gift of love. Treasure it as such..." on 20:04:19 11/08/00 Wed

Hello education group,

When I started to read this I thought you had simply gone mad -- but as I completed the text I feel you are really onto something. This is the rock upon which many areas of Aquadiem can be founded. Since part of the education may be to leave Aquadiem it is even stronger. Maybe one project in the educational realm is to leave the island in hope of making outsiders lives better. Then, one could document the resistance to utopia discovered?

We will review in class today

Dr Bevington

> THE AQUADIEM "METHOD"
> of bringing up and educating children
>
> The Aquadiem philosophy of education is as a method of
> seeing children as they really are and of creating
> environments which foster the fulfillment of their
> highest potential - spiritual, emotional, physical,
> and intellectual - as members of a family, the
> Aquadiem community and the Cosmos.
> Dr. Bevington gave the world a scientific method,
> practical and tested, for bringing forth the very best
> in young human beings. He taught adults how to
> respect individual differences, and to emphasize
> social interaction and the education of the whole
> personality rather than the teaching of a specific
> body of knowledge.
> Aquadiem practice is always up-to-date and dynamic
> because observation and the meeting of needs are
> continual and specific for each child. When physical,
> mental, spiritual, and emotional needs are met
> children glow with excitement and a drive to play and
> work with enthusiasm, to learn, and to create. They
> exhibit a desire to teach, help, and care for others
> and for their environment. The high level of academic
> achievement so common in Aquadiem schools is a natural
> outcome of experience in such a supportive
> environment. The Aquadiem method of education is a
> model that serves the needs of children of all levels
> of mental and hysical ability as they live and learn
> in a natural, mixed-age group, which is very much like
> the society they will live in as adults.
> Essentially the students are given projects to solve
> rather than specific courses. The projects may be
> solved any way the student feels most appropriate. The
> objective of this lies in that the students have to
> acquire the necessary knowledge in order to solve the
> various problems that may arise as they go about
> fulfilling the project at hand. This may incorporate
> physics, art and languages all in one. If the students
> reach a point were they do not know which knowledge is
> needed or have no clue how to complete a project, then
> guides (who would be called teachers in the other
> world) are there to guide them onto the right path.
> This way of not forcing the young creative minds to
> solve problems a certain way has been of much benefit
> of the Aquadiem society as many new inventions and
> ways of thinking have been made reality. Large parts
> of the Aquadiem way of education are field excursions.
> This is not only to get hands on feeling of how
> various professions are carried out in reality, but
> also to gain respect for these. Perhaps even spark a
> light of curiosity within the individual, which will
> result in him/her pursuing a specific field they might
> otherwise have been ignorant to.
> The guides� major roles are in the instructions of
> meditating. This is carried out in steps where along
> the way many factors are learnt from it to be of
> benefit in everyday life. The peace of mind that one
> attains from this also helps to love your brothers and
> sisters in the true and spiritual sense of the word.
> The goal is of course to be able to picture ones true
> core in the simplest denominator possible � the
> individual cells. From this the process of reversing
> the aging motion the cells is the next step. This will
> in turn ensure a much longer, if not next to eternal
> healthy life.
>
> May all the little babies in heavon be with you my
> treasurd young Aquadiematic souls...
>
> Yours truly:
>
> The lobby of education.
>
> We love you!
>
> No, really.

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