The other point is, is always let a student get into trouble before you help him out. Don’t ever help out a student before he’s in trouble. This guy is doing his Comm Course drills right straight through to the bitter end, he does them like a little wound up doll, everything is beautiful and […]
The Education Angle
Lecture: Education: Point of Agreement
Now, I have known, been very fortunate to know in my life, quite a few real geniuses, chaps that really wrote their names fairly large in the world of literature and science, and I consider myself very fortunate because they are very rare. What made them so rare? I found something very peculiar about these […]
Lecture: The Logics: Methods of Thinking (3)
All right, five1, a definition of terms is necessary to the alignment, statement, resolution, of suppositions, observations, problems, and solutions and their communications. Here’s a whole matter of definition. Definition is taken up so beautifully and expertly by Count Alfred Korzybski that it is very difficult to improve in any way upon his classifications of […]
Lecture: Review of Progress of Dianetics and Dianetics Business (1)
The earliest stages of Dianetics (it might amuse you) came when a study of General Semantics indicated that there was some possibility that words themselves were very aberrative – just words. And the first effort of Dianetics, along the line of going back down the time track and so forth, was to clarify the definitions […]
DAB: The Processing of Children: Semantic Re-orientation
SEMANTIC REORIENTATION In one respect the auditor can perform a very important function in the education of the child. A child is almost always confused about the world around him because of the labels which have been placed on objects by adults who do not understand the serious nature of incorrectly labelling an object for […]
Lecture: Research and Discovery
Someone from the General Semantics Institute wrote in recently and mentioned that General Semantics and Dianetics went hand in hand. He is absolutely right, because the reform of language and how to think, how to look at things, how to differentiate–all of these things are of vast importance to a clear. A person can get […]