Missing That Invite for More Strenuous Forms of Soulcraft to Erect the...
Me too, but as usual following up on coordinated deceitful narratives like I laid out in the previous post led to pay dirt. So today let’s try to avoid using the M word at all and focus on the related...
View ArticleRegulating Subjectivity to Control the Conduct of Our Conduct: 21st Century...
Have you noticed that ‘limited government’ is another one of those catch phrases like Liberty, Freedom, High Standards for All, and Competency-Based Education that is suddenly ubiquitous, but not quite...
View ArticleMain Threat & Main Challenge Lies in the Organization of Our Individual &...
That quote came from a fall 2017 slideshare down in South America by Pavel Luksha, the Director of the Global Education Futures Initiative where he went on to post in his next sound byte that “The...
View ArticleMandating Internal Noetic Development and Pathways of Actualization: the...
Let’s go to a quote from Ken Wilber, who ties to Robert Kegan from the last post, as well as the actual learning standards implementation in K-12. This quote came from a 2007 book called Integral...
View ArticlePower Belongs to Those Who Act With Reflection to Create Ontological Innovations
To avoid a quick trip to the closest dictionary as I was forced to do the first time I encountered that mouthful word, think of it as shorthand for seeking actual changes in the real world. It reflects...
View ArticleCoercing the Will and Priming the Pump of Purpose to Control the...
One of the most fascinating sources of my insights into what is actually driving education reforms is when I read something that is demonstrably untrue. One fairly recent example is this 2013 article...
View ArticleImplanted Thoughts Never Had Before Via Citizen Science and the ABCD Framework
That was a longer writing break than I had intended but I got called up for jury duty, needed CLE credits, threw a 90th birthday party, and kept everyone happy last week with turkey, etc. Mostly though...
View ArticleCoups, Culture & Consciousness: Contrived to Shape Our Future Character and...
It’s the holiday season so let me provide the gift of clarity on the true direction of education at any level, in both the US and globally. This time we are going back to 1994 to another book from the...
View ArticleSnuffing Out the Old World That is Dying to Hatch a New One Via Public Policy
Building on the last post’s explanation of the importance of targeting people’s internalized mental maps to effect external change, let me cite this recent article...
View ArticleRegard the Past, Perceive the Present, Imagine the Future, and Then Act for...
Ironically, the first part of that title came to me while I was taking a break from research because one of my favorite historical series had published a new novel. Set in Tudor times, the author’s...
View ArticleUnleashing the Power of Disruptive Imagination in Every Citizen to Avoid...
Educators, think tanks, and other social scientists are not the only ones who can ‘backwards map’ from desired individual and social outcomes to the policies that need to be prescribed by law to put...
View ArticleAspirations of Controlling Consciousness, A New Kind of ‘Thinking Beast,’&...
In the last post, we talked about the planned evolution of human cognition using curricula for K-12 and higher ed, as well as through learning standards that are consistently misexplained to obscure...
View ArticleRebooting the Mind and Heart to Get at Humanity 2.0 and a Global Convergence
We are going to do a travelogue today using quotes from a UNESCO institute in India with a vision written by American education profs, hen a May conference at the Vatican we were not invited to, on to...
View ArticleEpiphany Moment: Education as Cultural Transformation Using Heart and Mind...
Eureka! When I wrote the last post I recognized the common vision, but had not yet fully tracked down the why. That shifted quickly though when I followed up on one of the attendees at the Humanity 2.0...
View ArticleTotalitarianism or Rightful Regulation? The Reasons for the Redirection of...
When I wrote Credentialed to Destroy and then later started this blog, I knew I could trace what was actually occurring, even if I did not always understand precisely why or the reason for so much...
View ArticleStandardizing Self-Transcendence & Psychological Attributes to Deliberately...
Since none of us were probably invited to NYC for the United Nations General Assembly last month, they just announced the roll out of a Futures of Education initiative with a ‘Learning to Become’...
View ArticleCollective Cognition: Stipulating Right Thinking and Prescribing Prevailing...
Never heard the phrase ‘collective cognition’ before? Wouldn’t creating required learning standards and then assessing for their presence in guiding a student’s thoughts and actions amount to learning...
View ArticleDiscerning and then Retraining the ‘In-Order-To’ Image that Will Guide Future...
From the Ford Foundation’s Realizing Democracy template that lays out how “Fixing Democracy demands the building and aligning of people’s motivation and authority to act”...
View ArticleDestination Identity: Scaffolding the Collective Images of the Desired...
Let’s go back in time to the 1960s for social plans before comparing them to plans from last month in the UK clearly following the same long desired blueprint. The back cover of The Art of Conjecture...
View ArticleHotwiring the Second Wing of the Eagle: Utilize the Human Brain as the...
I suppose I am giving away both my age (autos before too many electronics) and geography (southern) with that metaphor, but it struck me on a walk yesterday that the old technique for surreptitiously...
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