Learning, Teaching and Schools - Taken from 'Koos Nolst Trenite Anecdotes - Zero Tolerance for Evil Impulses - etc.' - Issued as {HRI 20060815} (Version 1.1.1-UAA on 16 Aug 2006)
Koos Nolst Trenite
15 August 2006
{HRI 20060815-V1.1.1-UAA}
'Pride only breeds quarrels,
but wisdom is found
in those who take advice.'
King Solomon
'
You live on Earth, remember?
Most people don't realize that - especially
after they have been "educated," as children,
educated not about life, educated not about
people, but about going to school and about
sitting in a class room and about going home
from the class room, and
how to keep up this system in which your
natural desire and intense curiosity to learn,
is in most cases quite irreparably destroyed
for the rest of your life, the destruction
already accomplished in primary school, in
most cases, or else they finish it off in high
school:
"Do not be curious or interested, UNLESS
and UNTIL you are told to - and then
ONLY IN AS MUCH AS you are told to."
'
There are some sixty million most severely Criminal
psychopaths alive and on the loose, here, on Earth,
and you have to learn how to live with that -
which is, in my experience and opinion, not
taught by addressing children as morons who
"know nothing, feel nothing, perceive nothing,
and can remember nothing."
We did have a teacher - a kind man, at
college, Mr. Brommer was his name, if
you want to know - who said that to us.
He said that about pupils, when he
observed it in them and was annoyed
about it - observing, that many pupils
reacted as morons who "know nothing,
feel nothing, perceive nothing, and
remember nothing;" and he was annoyed
that it was being so, without that he
could change it in his pupils.
What he FAILED to observe, though, was,
that actually the whole class - of
some thirty pupils - and EACH class,
was MADE into that
BY the school itself:
All interest and curiosity was almost
wholly destroyed in almost all of the
pupils in almost all of the subjects
taught.
'
Neither the teachers, nor the pupils,
nor the parents, understood anything
about THAT being the case.
Instead, each child, each teacher and
each parent had all kind of "reasons"
why things did indeed not go well at
all.
I was - of course - the best of the
class:
Curious, participating, interested,
perfect memory and perfect
understanding, while the other
pupils were, well, being pupils,
you know - sitting there because
they have to, and answering the
minimum and the worst they could
still get away with.
I found it very strange, that they
did not show interest and joy and
enthusiasm, but somehow 'did what
they were told.'
Thus one teacher, in all aspects an
extremely ugly woman, dressed as a
tasteless, self-righteous and old
woman would dress, stiffly, having
the mouth of a dried prune and the
eyes of a joyful sadist,
and Energies to match those
qualities, emanating from
between her legs,
made it her task to have my Beauty
and my Intelligence and Interest
in the subject she taught,
in which I was by far the
best of the class, to have
that
destroyed, at least to have it NOT
shown by me in HER class room or
in HER presence.
'Tut' van Eck was her name,
for those who want to know;
teaching the Dutch language
to the pupils, was what she
was paid for.
I did not know what struck me,
you know - "I had to figure out"
how it OFFENDED her, to be very
interested in and the best of
her class.
And what she at the same
time
- which was apparently
a main part of her
strategy to prevent
me from looking at
her soul - what she
started to emanate at me
from between her legs,
an Extreme Ugliness of
sacksuality that I had,
at that time, no way of
understanding
(of understanding, that
anyone could or would
possibly WANT to create
and project anything
like it, at anyone,
nor what it actually was,
except that it was Extreme
Ugliness and intending to
destroy life)
already the concept
of "normal" people
intentionally creating
Ugliness and ENJOYING
to destroy life, was
a subject that my
parents, for good
reason, did not bring
up or discuss with
their children,
good "reasons" for
them, as it would have
all too easily opened
our eyes to seeing
their own nature and
intentions,
seeing which, had to be
avoided and prevented
at all cost, or else
had to be distorted,
supposedly "to protect
us from experiencing
Ugliness and evil"
- Criminal Minds
have everything
in reverse.
They want to
"protect"
children by
hiding evil
from them.
Translated in
understandable
language:
"DO NOT LOOK at
the cars that
might kill you,
JUST CROSS THE
STREET" -
all things, that the school
did not and would certainly
not teach me or anyone about.
'
So after about a month
- while this very ugly woman
teacher was working very hard to
try and make me wholly unaware,
of the very simple fact that
would have resolved everything,
namely, that she had no other
intention than to bring me
PERSONALLY somehow down, and that
she ENJOYED to destroy people:
*(3)
'Why would anybody want to
bring ME down, I had done
nothing at all to her or to
anyone, to annoy her or
anyone, let alone to merit
anything like that,'
was the reasoning, that I
was supposed to use, to
justify my having been made
blind to evil -
however, she, the ugly woman teacher,
found out somehow, that I refuse to
mindlessly memorize things
- she may have heard that from
another teacher, where I ALSO
was the best in the class, his
English class,
in which I was the best BECAUSE
I refused to memorize word lists,
and instead I, in my own time,
did read English books,
which gave me an UNDERSTANDING
of the words,
and the ability to use them
easily, also in the translation
examinations at school, of
course.
And THAT teacher, a very nice man, his
name, if you like to know, was Vermeulen,
HE allowed me NOT to study (NOT to
memorize) the word lists, and to NOT
have to be checked out on the blunt
memorizing of those word lists each
week. With the result, that I was the
best of his English class.
'
In any case, the woman,
if you like to call her that:
the 'dried-prune-lipped' face,
whose nickname in school was
indeed 'Tut'
- ask any Dutch person some
time, what it rhymes with,
or, you may have a shameless
guess yourself -
this 'woman' teacher clinched her deal,
finalized the task she had set out to
accomplish,
by demanding that I memorize a long
and dull poem, knowing well that I also
refuse to mindlessly memorize poems,
and she was completing the job by
demanding every day that we came to
her class, that I stand in front of the
class to recite that whole poem,
while she was 'implicitly' not
tolerating any discussion about
her demand, nor the possibility
and conditions of non-compliance,
while she apparently saw her very
sick-minded "victory" near,
as I had neither a desire nor
intention to memorize that whole
poem.
Me thus "changed" from being the very
best in class, from being alive and
highly interested in the subject she
taught,
she considered that now she could, and
indeed she did give me an 'insufficient'
note.
'
And you can imagine, that that same
school did not teach me how to
understand such intentions and
practices,
let alone how to complain about
them and how to defend myself
against such intentions and against
similar actions coming from a
Criminally Minded teacher who has
the intention to destroy her best
pupils.
'
While this school was "the
best," teaching 'the classic'
foundation of culture, with
Latin and Greek,
we were NOT given Cicero's
orations, to read,
but the completely
useless war ramblings
of a Criminal Mind:
'De Bello Gallico,' by
Mr. Julius Ceasar.
We were NOT given Plato's
discourses to read, not
even Euclid's Elements of
Geometry, but
Homer's fairy tales
instead.
'
I was deeply offended, and
highly disappointed.
And it did not stop there,
it was similar in all the
other subjects taught,
I will spare the school
to talk about their
"art" classes or about
their "music" classes,
subjects that can be
taught VERY WELL, *(a)
or their "history" *(b)
classes, or their
"sports" classes, *(c)
also subjects that
can be taught with
intense interest and
to great joy.
'
Yet the director of the school, the 'rector,'
Mr. Nederlof, was a very nice and very kind
man, with love for his pupils and for people in
general.
The teachers - except for the one mentioned -
were not evil, not stupid, not ugly, not
unwilling.
The same applied to the pupils, except
for a few usual exceptions.
'
BUT they did not go out and look where teaching
WAS being done:
No, 'they were a school, so "by
definition, they were teaching",' and
"They were the best school around,
so BY DEFINITION they were teaching
best."
'
I had become thoroughly convinced,
that - also at my school -
my being curious and alive and
intelligent, and my really being
interested and desiring full
understanding, and my also bringing
that understanding about in myself,
was not appreciated at all, was
not desired or appreciated in ANY
pupil,
neither by any of the
classmates, the pupils,
nor by any of the teachers,
at this 'highest quality school.'
'
Instead, things had to be thought
of as being "difficult to learn and
understand," and "you had to study
hard and do a lot of 'homework',"
"before you could even begin
to grasp a subject or be
good in it."
"And it was so difficult," that
"some people could not even
grasp it at all, and had to
leave school."
"They were 'not intelligent enough'
for this great school," so I was
told.
'
There is not anything at all
taught on that school, that
is difficult:
Even the most stupid
person
- provided he is able
to talk about and is
willing to discuss
any of the subjects -
can easily complete the
classes, and that in
half the time (the six
years) that the school
takes for it, now,
and that WITHOUT
doing any 'homework.'
That is, if one simply does
understand what learning and
teaching IS, *(1)(2)
which is NOT what
current schools or
any 'study courses'
say "it is."
'
It was MADE difficult:
This elevated the teachers
above the pupils, and it
elevated the teachers above
the parents,
and it was hiding and it made
acceptable the fact, that
NONE of the teachers could
teach, nor did they know
anything about the nature
and functioning of teaching
itself,
other than intuitively,
which however, as with
my teacher for English,
was opposed to the
methods, instructions
and text-books that all
teachers had to use and
follow.
'
'
Well, feeling thoroughly betrayed, and
certainly not without reason, by the
school and by my parents,
who "explained" it as "me being
too young," having skipped one
class in primary school, I was
now "too young,"
which translated to me, then,
as 'too interested, too
intelligent, with too little
agreement with making myself
as stupid as was expected
and that all others did
obviously comply with,'
and as 'refusing to see or
admit, that anyone would
want to be evil to ME,'
and while I still was appreciated
as the president of the school's
student association, that had
merely the function of organizing
the school parties,
I spent the rest of my school years
mainly staring out of the class room
windows,
at the seasons going by
(that is how you are using my
abilities,
that is what you do, to nurture
my love for people; and there was
no Master Verrocchio around, far
and wide, to teach, and to nurture
my talents;
and you can imagine, what you are
doing to the talents of others,
with such a school)
but I spent the time AFTER school and
during holidays,
to raid the local town library,
and to build my electronics, at home,
and to take my motor bike apart, at home,
and to create a chemical laboratory, at
home, and to listen to music on my
home-built sound system, and to roam the
countryside to study plants and birds,
and doing my sailing sport during summer
and autumn weekends, or in the holidays.
'
Jokingly I might remark, that there were
a few times, that I did impose upon the
school, though,
when I found out by accident, that they
had a well-equipped physics laboratory
stashed away behind doors usually locked,
which was meant only, however,
for the very ambitious teacher,
and that only for the purpose of
occasionally taking something out
of it, to show it in front of the
class.
I remember sneaking in there at times,
during lunch break, after I discovered
it, and my clandestinely handling the
machinery for physical experiments,
till it was found out by the
'claviger amanuensis' - Mr.
Waarsink, you certainly like to
know his name -
whose task it was, to keep those
machines away from the pupils, and
occasionally to prepare one (an
apparatus) for the physics class,
which allowed him to use the title
of 'amanuensis,' here meaning 'the
assistant to the (physics and
chemistry) teachers.'
'Claviger' translates as
'key-bearer' - he was the
janitor for the school
building.
'
'
Well, un-intentionally I have given you
some more anecdotes, here, which should
connect to the subject of teaching, and
to the consequences of NOT teaching or
of pretending to teach, at school, as was
the case in my school time,
and which is still largely the case in
all schools, no matter what are the study
methods or the slogans that are in use,
about "learning for life," or "learning
for the job." *(2)
It has not changed much, which
is why I am talking about it.
In my next life time, I wouldn't
mind going to an actual school,
you see,
where pupils are ALLOWED to
learn, and not only that,
but also are NOT prevented
from naturally being as they
are, alive and curious and
intelligent and inquisitive,
being much more so
than their teachers,
yet being forced to
place themselves BELOW
the teachers,
the teachers having to
claim and enforce and
maintain, that "they,
the teachers, know
more:"
But every person does,
on SOME subject, know
vastly more than you
do - about his own life
and his own emotions
for instance, even if
subconsciously only -
and it may dawn on you,
that the whole idea
of "a teacher is senior
to his pupils," or "a
guru is senior to his
students," is OPPOSED
to the nature of
teaching itself.
Instead, you DO know
the correct concept
of seniority, because
you find in the subject
of coaching someone in
a particular talent,
true teaching assumes,
that it is not unlikely
that the talent coached
(your talent) is bigger
than the talent of the
coach.
That tells you ONE
aspect - and a major
aspect at that - of
teaching. *(2)
'
For years, I used to have 'nightmares,'
dreams that all amounted to my appearing
at school (high school, college), my
appearing in classes and in front of
teachers, while I had ALREADY my final
school exam passed and completed,
so, why all their stressing to me 'how
difficult,' or 'how important for my
future' the subjects were,
while in those 'nightmares' I was
returning to school "as a pupil,"
AFTER completing it,
much like Heinz Ruhmann did,
as an actor, in the German
black-and-white movie 'Die
Feuerzangen-bowle.'
Well, the faithful reader knows enough
about me to figure out that dream.
'
Another point quite worth mentioning, is,
that the night before the final exam,
the last and verbal part of the
final school exam, that you have
to pass before going on to and in
order to be able to go to
university,
I had a very nice party, there was plum
wine, a swimming pool in the garden, and
nice girls, and I did not feel at all
like sleeping, but very happy instead,
and so I appeared at the exams, without
having slept the night before, but fully
rested nonetheless.
I thought, it was maybe the plum
wine, that had wrought the miracle,
but the experiment could not be
repeated with the same result.
'
There are quite other factors at
work:
Sleeping is basically the
same as hypnotism. *(cc)
About which more in another
HRI.
'
Koos Nolst Trenite "Cause Trinity"
human rights philosopher and poet
'Choose my instruction
rather than silver,
choose knowledge
rather than gold.'
King Solomon
________
See also:
'Note On Teaching History' of 22 Apr 2005, in
Section '(Note on teaching history)' *(2)
found in:
'Leonardo Da Vinci - About Aliens, Dimensions, Consciousness,
Time, And Earth's Past And Future'
{HRI 20040829-V3.4.3}
'
_________________
Note on the Title:
(*) 'Learning, Teaching and Schools' {HRI 20060815} (the HRI you
have in front of you now) is taken from:
'Anecdotes of Koos Nolst Trenite Opposing Crime - What Is 'Zero
Tolerance,' Definition - Mozart Effect to Prevent Crime'
{HRI 20060305-V3.0}
(soon to be issued)
'
_________
Textnotes:
(a) Someone who actually CAN teach music, is Mr. Burge - David Lucas
Burge - his courses are called 'Perfect Pitch' master classes,
and 'Relative Pitch' levels 1-5.
He teaches the very basics of music itself, and he teaches it
very well (he recorded his twenty or so years of skill, on audio
tapes or CD's).
And then, furthermore, it is of course interesting, always, what
the best performers feel and think about music, as for instance
in
'Violin Mastery - Talks with Master Violinists and Teachers - by
Frederic H. Martens'
to give you an example of actually teaching something about
music.
'
(b) History is brought about by INDIVIDUALS, and not "by countries,"
nor "by battles fought," etc.:
These countries, and any battles, ALL were led, moved, directed,
by INDIVIDUALS.
Criminal Minds do not want you to know that, and they
invent all kind of concepts, to replace and hide the
truth that things are ALWAYS caused by INDIVIDUALS,
including, of course, by Criminal Minds, that you
- if you live in a free country - know as intensely
evil INDIVIDUALS, from history.
Truth is DEFINED as 'that what happened, who
caused it, and with what intention.'
'
This gives you an opening to ACTUALLY studying history, as it
concerns you very much.
Biographies or historic novels or documentaries, of a
period that you are interested in, might be very good
starting points for studying history.
'The more you are aware of the past, the more you are in the
present, because the present is almost completely made up of
the past, and the future is almost completely carrying on from,
and determined by actions and decisions made also in the past -
mostly even in a very distant past, by others mostly too.'
Quote from: 'Living In The Present - Definition'
{HRI 20030102} (2 Jan 2003)
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.philosophy/msg/79b86c004f4c16ad?fwc=1
See also:
'The Second Mozart-Effect - Connecting To Your Own Past'
(3 Sept 2002 - Version 1.1)
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.europe/msg/5b077edfe7634b7b?fwc=1
'
(bb) Section '(Note on teaching history)'
found in:
'Leonardo Da Vinci - About Aliens, Dimensions, Consciousness,
Time, And Earth's Past And Future'
{HRI 20040829-V3.4.3}
(29 August 2004 - Version 3.4.3 on 18 May 2006)
http://groups.google.com/group/misc.writing/msg/d986639cd9593ee1?fwc=1
'
(c) You might say, that Pilates - Joseph Pilates, who lived and
worked in the first half of the previous century - that knowing
and practicing his understanding of handling the body, might
very well be the basis of ANY sports teaching.
Sports can be (and should be done in such a way, that it will be)
an excellent way of getting more in command of your own and your
body's Life Energies, and to create more of your own Energies
and to let your body create more of its Life Energies
(cc) AND to remove - from your body and from your soul - quite some
of the harmful and hypnotic Energies that anyone on Earth is
continuously bombarded with, not only to bring about sleep, and
illness and the like, but also, and in particular inflicted
during the rather defenseless period of time spent sleeping -
hence 'morning gymnastics,' 'morning shower,' 'morning coffee,'
and 'groggy with sleep,' 'morning sickness,' 'needing more
sleep,' and so on.
'
_________
Footnotes:
(1) 'Learning And Reading - Leonardo Da Vinci and Galileo Galilei had
an excellent command of reading and writing'
{HRI 20040811}
(11 August 2004)
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.education/msg/a99e7ca6e050df1a?fwc=1
(2) Section '(Note on teaching history)' of 22 April 2005,
found in:
'Leonardo Da Vinci - About Aliens, Dimensions, Consciousness,
Time, And Earth's Past And Future'
{HRI 20040829-V3.4.3}
(29 August 2004 - Version 3.4.3 on 18 May 2006)
http://groups.google.com/group/misc.writing/msg/d986639cd9593ee1?fwc=1
(3) 'Normal Life Disaster From Not Understanding A Criminal Mind
(A True Story)'
{HRI 20040927-V2.7}
(27 Sept 2004 - Version 2.7 on 17 Oct 2004)
http://groups.google.com/group/sci.med/msg/893fea2afc715539?fwc=1
'
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AmerGovtCriminalsExposer
"Koos Nolst Trenite" <Ambassador...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:1155721643.7...@75g2000cwc.googlegroups.com...
I agree with you that there are PLENTY of CRIMINALS on this planet and the
WORST of the WORST of those CRIMINAL, SADISTIC, PERVERTED, BLOOD THIRSTY,
CHILD RAPING, PSYCHOPATHS are working in FBI, CIA and NSA agencies.
So PROGRAMMED AMERICAN SLAVE MORONS and the REST of the WORLD should get
together and RUTHLESSLY KILL EACH and EVERY FBI, CIA and NSA PSYCHOPATH and
GET RID of the EVIL of EVILS from this planet.
AMAZING HOW the EVIL AMERICAN GOVT GETS AWAY WITH MURDERS, MAYHEM, RAPES,
MASSACRES, LOOTING, PERVERSION, SADISM, TORTURES all over the world.
And the WORST PART is these AMERICAN GOVT CLOWNS spend DECADES and DECADES
PSYCHOANALYZING EVERYBODY ELSE BUT THEMSELVES and conducting research and
writing books WHY the rest of the world HATES
AMERICA ? ROFLMAO...........
http://thirdworldtraveler.com/Authors/Quotations_page_5.html
It is the function of the CIA to keep the world unstable and to
propagandize the American people to hate, so we will let the establishment
spend any amount of money on arms. "
John Stockwell
" Coming to grips with these U.S./CIA activities in broad numbers and
figuring out how many people have been killed in the jungles of Laos or the
hills of Nicaragua is very difficult. But, adding them up as best we can, we
come up with a figure of six million people killed-and this is a minimum
figure. Included are: one million killed in the Korean War, two million
killed in the Vietnam War, 800,000 killed in Indonesia, one million in
Cambodia, 20,000 killed in Angola ... and 22,000 killed in Nicaragua. These
people would not have died if U.S. tax dollars had not been spent by the CIA
to inflame tensions, finance covert political and military activities and
destabilize societies.
Certainly, there are other local, regional, national and international
factors in many of these operations, but if the CIA were tried fairly in a
U.S. court, under U.S. law, the principle of complicity, incitement, riot,
and mayhem would clearly apply. In the United States, if you hire someone to
commit a murder your sentence may be approximately the same as that of the
murderer himself.
Who are these six million people we have killed in the interest of American
national security? Conservatives tell us, "It's a dangerous world. Our
enemies have to die so we can be safe and secure." Some of them say, "I'm
sorry, but that's the way the world is. We have to accept this reality and
defend ourselves, to make our nation safe and insure our way of life."
Since 1954, however, we have not parachuted teams into the Soviet Union -
our number one enemy - to destabilize that country... Neither do we run
these violent operations in England, France, Sweden, Norway, Belgium, or
Switzerland. Since the mid-1950s they have all been conducted in Third World
countries where governments do not have the power to force the United States
to stop its brutal and destabilizing campaigns.
One might call this the "Third World War." It is a war that has been fought
by the United States against the Third World. Others call it the Cold War
and focus on the anti-Communist and anti-Soviet rationales, but the dead are
not Soviets; they are people of the Third World. It might also be called the
Forty-Year War, like the Thirty-Year and Hundred-Year Wars in Europe, for
this one began when the CIA was founded in 1947 and continues today.
Altogether, perhaps twenty million people died in the Cold War. As wars go,
it has been the second or third most destructive of human life in all of
history, after World War I and World War II.
The six million people the CIA has helped to kill are people of the Mitumba
Mountains of the Congo, the jungles of Southeast Asia, and the hills of
northern Nicaragua. They are people without ICBMs or armies or navies,
incapable of doing physical damage to the United States the 22,000 killed in
Nicaragua, for example, are not Russians; they are not Cuban soldiers or
advisors; they are not even mostly Sandinistas. A majority are rag-poor
peasants, including large numbers of women and children.
Communists? Hardly, since the dead Nicaraguans are predominantly Roman
Catholics. Enemies of the United States? That description doesn't fit
either, because the thousands of witnesses who have lived in Nicaraguan
villages with the people since 1979 testify that the Nicaraguans are the
warmest people on the face of the earth, that they love people from the
United States, and they simply cannot understand why our leaders would want
to spend $1 billion on a contra force designed to murder people and wreck
the country."
John Stockwell
Look, if you think any American official is going to tell you the truth,
then you're stupid. Did you hear that? - stupid."
Arthur Sylvester, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs, 1965
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety."
Benjamin Franklin, 1759
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his
government."
Edward Abbey
http://thirdworldtraveler.com/Authors/QuotationsToMakeUSThink.html
Pax anti- american imperialism and terrorism is a philosophy.
Making sure evil, imperialistic american govt does not turn me into a SLAVE
like majority of the americans, is liberty building.
Think of it as somebody beating the shit out of EVIL AMERICAN GOVT
CRIMINALS, MURDERERS and TERRORISTS for being FASCIST, GENOCIDAL and BLOOD
THIRSTY PSYCHOPATHS.