As Aaron suggested that I would, I am going to post my ... spiel that I came up with in first period just because the pen I was writing with wrote so well that I had to write something with it. You know the feeling you get when you have a pen that justs writes so good you draw all the time with it, just because writing with it feels good. Anywho....

. The number one problem many students have is so self evident that it isn't funny. Not only do students suffer from it, but teachers do as well. The problem I have just explained to you, and you should now realise that you suffer from this problem as well. Teachers and Students, these relationships between people do not exist. There is no such thing as a teacher, no such thing as a student. As all students are teachers, and all teachers are students. They, like buying and selling, are two sides of one coin.

. The problem is that nobody accepts that for what it is. To a student a teacher is an authority figure of whom they must absorb knowledge from. The flow of information in a Teacher/Student relationship is noto bidirectional. This does not only apply in a school enviroment. Our whole society is based on a Teacher/Student mentality. Activities on all fronts, however, would be greatly improved if the concept of Student and Teacher were eradicated.

. A kike (or any other religious/racial slur) is a slur for someone being Jewish. Being a Jew (or any other religion/race) should be a slur for someone being human, much the same as Teacher & Student are. When you hear that someone is jewish you don't hear "they have a family, job, etc...." you hear "they are unlike me." What is the difference when you travel in the United States between North Dakota and South Dakota? A borderline. Common terms like Jew, Student & Teacher are mental borderlines which seperate people from eachother. People are people.

. When you hear teacher you hear "someone who knows more than me, whom I will learn from." When you hear student you hear "someone who subjects themselves to the whim of a teacher." Neither of these terms correctly define any relationship between people, as these are forced mentalities.

. What I mean by forced is that they are unnatural conditions placed upon the human mind. In the Dark Ages, possibly even before, the concept of Mentor/Apprentice was developed. This Mentor/Apprentice mentality has worked it's way through the years to be known to us at the Teacher/Student mentality.

. This is the problem, our manner of thinking is, in itself, outdated and essentially designed for the Dark Ages. In the Dark Ages life was so harsh and intelligence so scarce that embracing a Mentor/Apprentice mentality was the only way anything could ever get done. We have just now begun a new milleniea with mentalities that are not up to standard with our physical technology, benifits, and capabilities.

. Our average lifespan has increased a hell of a lot ( dont know exact specifics ), Computers have made communication on mass scales over long distances easier than preparing dinner for oneself, and the number of people readily available to get things done is astonishing. It is true that the Teacher/Student mentality can work, as it worked in the Dark Ages. However difficult it may be, however, we must as a species in it's entirety, change our mentality from an outdated one to one fit for our time, and our needs. Not for the needs of the Dark Ages.

. People have an amazing ability to retain knowledge & patching them together in a network. An example of this wouuld be the following: *there is a term for it, but I don't have the term :|

. Dogs. Dogs are animals. A lion is an animal. Lions live in Africa. Africa is a continent. Continents are formed by tectonic plates, which are moved by magma under the Earth's crust. Earth is found in the Sol system, third planet from it's star. It is also the only planet in it's system to contain life forms, such as Dogs.

. These connections between all aspects of gathered information aren't 'solid' information, but the larger the base of information is, the higher chance of deriving knowledge from the information is. With each human being a gatherer of information, and the technology we are developing in means of communication - we can break ourselves free of Dark Age mentalities.

. With a combined pool of knowledge I would believe that any task can be achieved more efficiently, productively, and timely. Imagine a learning enviroment such as a math class. The teacher first gives each student a problem, and then tells them to solve for the answer. If a student has a question in how to do the problem, he gets the teacher's attention and the teacher explains what the student is doing wrong. If another student has a different problem, they must wait. If four different students with four different problems want the teacher's attention, only one can have it at one time. This is inefficient, unproductive, and of course untimely.

. With the concept of a pooled-information base learning enviroments have no Teacher. Each person involved functions as both teacher and student. Thus is the natrual mindframe of humanity. As a collective, where one student may have problems - instead of waiting for the teacher to address it, another student would be there to help him/her. The learning enviroment in essense becomes a self-teaching group.

. I whole-heartedly believe this is the manner in which we were not only meant to function, but that we should function as a whole. Objectivism and other such idealogies are the plague of our entire species. The concept of self is important, this is true, however not important as to make any one person of more value than all persons. Things that promote blatant individualism should be eradicated. To quote a well known saying : "No man is an island."

. Why has it seemed I've strayed from Teacher/Student mentality ranting? Because that's only the tip of the iceberg as compared to the problem I've addressed in the previous paragraph. We are trapped, mentally, by thinking since we aren't all joined at the hip, that we aren't all joined in the mind. Mythology proves this, and like dogs parking at themselves when looking in mirrors - we haven't gotten to realise that no matter how different we are, the similiarities drastically outweigh the differences.

. I am hoping something comes to move us all in the general direction of what I've written here. I'm expecting it to be the antithesis to Capatilism, and I'm looking forward for the zeitgeist to just show up. But will there even be a zeitgeist, or will we be beaten upside the head by technology to realise that we ourselves need to be 'upgraded' in a mental sense?


.... guh.... talk about long eh?