A popular quote by Lao Tzu, "When the student is ready, the teacher will appears. When the student is truly ready, the teacher will disappear," always reminds me about how really instructive it is in order for learning to truly take place.
The consequences of non-readiness of the students is just beyond a waste of time. It's total because every other resource is included: time, presence, energy, money and more.
We occupy the learning space where learning does not truly happen because positive change is more a slogan than deed. It's not ingrained in the subconscious. The supposed learner is full of everything negative or contrary to true value.
Supposed students have made themselves enemies of great content and information. They have embraced misinformation and so their minds (subconscious) are filled with negatives that they can't fight.
You can't fight anything in your subconscious mind. You're at its mercy. The only thing that you can do is to prevent it from getting in. This is why we must control what we read, see, hear or take in from our environment.
This is what drives their thirst and appeals to them. You don't thirst for what you don't know. You desire and hunger only for what you already know. What the majority of learners know today are those things that progressively break them. The same makes them, if it’s value.
In a physical classroom, which is supposed to be a learning space where the journey towards transformation can either begin or can be activated or continued, only a very few truly connect with the content being shared.
The majority only fill up space. They are not ready. This level of non-committal is regretted. It calls for total system overhaul because unless something is done about it, we would only have a recurring negative decimal: zero agile and adaptable minds.
How did such students end up in that space in the first place? Perhaps, we should look at the education system that recommends one-size-fits-all arrangement where everyone is lumped into that pack: square pegs in round holes and vice-versa. Pathetic, right? Yes, indeed!
I was discussing with a business friend and colleague who was invited as a resource person to speak to a group of youth corps members. As I looked at the photos, I saw a predominantly disconnected group of young people who seemed to have been forced into something they are not hungry for. These young people are driven by everything but value. Perhaps, researching what drives the potential or proposed learner is a great first step in deciding what value participants would welcome or accept.
If you find ten percent who truly connect with the faculty, I think this is a massive record. The reason is that more often than not, we may not find up to that number. Run a check and you would find out that the desires of more than eighty-five or ninety percent are driven by such ideas like: all-time of fun, consumerism as opposed to productivity, divers kinds of lust, and altogether, distraction.
Their minds are often everything contrary to the discipline for which they are certified or certificated. They are not hungry for what they are promised. So, how do they connect? How exactly do they engage? This is not funny at all.
You cannot thirst for or desire anything outside the programs that run in you. Something within is what attracts something without. This is the biggest undoing of the human. They have been raised contrary to true value and when it’s time to be productive, they find that their results are contrary to their true or potential education.
What they thirst for is what they compulsively reach out to. They find true value almost impossible because their subconscious minds have been fed with negatives. They end up frustrated and more often than not, only a few are able to fight this debilitating and retrogressive state of affairs.
They are the ones who find the value of resilience. Driven by specific vision, they always bounce back and continuously seek and apply new information to counter the old. They are deliberately re-writing the old programs by creating new ones using the new information available. These are in the ten percent or less than. They are the ones who are willing to pay the price of separation and follow a path that they hitherto did not know.
These are the few who are ready. They are the ones who, after meeting a teacher, do not need one for long or again because they can now self-engage and are willing to run the process of self-awareness, and go through self-development to achieve self-actualisation.
These are the ones who pursue the process of learning to its end. They are limited in number and contrast the huge number that’s not ready. The consequences of non-readiness go beyond what we can comprehend.
