| Andrew Seaton, Ph.D. |
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Welcome to my website.
We can develop a broader set of faculties, qualities and abilities than we have been able to do through our traditional schooling, and we can find new and more adequate answers to this question. In the limited, mental view of intelligence, we may 'know' about the world, in an abstract, interpretive way, but we fail to experience a real connection with it. With what I call 'Deep Intelligence', we can prosper by living intimately connected with the world. This website contains information on some of my contributions towards a fundamentally different way of being in the world, and of educating people, through the awakening of Deep Intelligence. I invite you to check out my book...
Billions of dollars are spent every year around the world on school reform. Despite this, there is a mountain of evidence that nothing much changes, that schooling still fails to awaken very significant faculties and inner resources in young people, and that it has significant negative impacts on them. The reason is that reform efforts do not question the mistaken assumptions underlying school education. This book identifies and explains those mistaken assumptions. Many parents, teachers and education academics are strongly sensing the inadequacies of schooling and the deeper possibilities of human functioning, but are frustrated by the lack of a coherent and comprehensive rationale or framework to rally around. Deep Intelligence provides one. It presents strong and coherent evidence concerning the ways in which human beings can function more fully than they typically do, and it outlines the kinds of activities, experiences and relationships needed to awaken and nurture them. This book will stir and delight, challenge and inspire. Some comments about the book... "Just excellent! I read it twice."
"Institutional structures, especially as they prevail today, refract any attempts to penetrate into the deeper levels of being and transform them. Dr Seaton has rediscovered this great truth about education. However, the greater value of this book lies in its outlining of ways and means of imparting education for deep intelligence, which have not previously been adequately or appropriately articulated."
"The truth is that the majority of children experience the traditional/current system of education as an assault on their emotional selves. It negates and damages the core of their being. 'Deep Intelligence' outlines a completely different approach to education, one that recognises, respects and nurtures that inner core, as well as the unique gifts each individual brings to our world. Dr Seaton's vision is not only an appealing alternative to the present system. It is an urgent necessity."
Watch these four YouTube clips about, "The Education Your Child Really Needs" (about 35 minutes in total). In this talk, I describe the different educational aims and practices we (parents, in particular) need to embrace in order to avoid the negative impacts of schooling and realise the deeper possibilities of human functioning that so many people are beginning to sense and to seek. Watch these four YouTube clips about, "What is Wrong with Schooling?" (about 32 minutes in total). In this talk, I describe some of the negative impacts of schooling. I identify the crucial errors in the theory or assumptions underlying schooling, which inevitably lead to those negative impacts and to the illness of our civilisation. I also expain why governments are unable to change schooling. |
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