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  • One of the most obvious but striking things about a modern education is that you go through

  • it only once. You show up every day for a number of years, get filled up with knowledge

  • and then, once youre twenty-one or so, you stopand begin the rest of your life.

  • Before modern education took off, the mightiest educational systems in the world were religions.

  • It was religions that taught us about ethics, purpose and the meaning of life. And one of

  • the interesting aspects of their pedagogy was that they were obsessed with repetition.

  • For them, it was absurd to imagine ever learning anything if you went through it only once.

  • The whole basis of religious education rested upon repetition. Five times a day, as a Muslim

  • one was to rehearse the central tenets of Islam; seven times a day as a Christian Benedictine

  • monk, one was to revisit the lessons of scripture. As an orthodox Jew, 300 days a year were marked

  • out for commemoration and ritual repetition of ideas in the Torah, while as a Zen priest,

  • one would be inducted to sit cross-legged and meditate up to twelve times between daybreak

  • and nightfall. Religions had what one might term a sieve view of the mind: that anything

  • one pours in will quickly be lost in our perforated memories. By contrast, modern education adheres

  • to an implicitly bucket-like theory of the mind: one pours in the contents and, bar accidents,

  • theyll stay there pretty much across a life-time. That’s why well think nothing

  • of earnestly declaring a book a favouriteand deigning to read it only once. Far

  • less naively and far more generously, religions prefer to imagine that anything you tell someone

  • in the morning will, by two in the afternoon, be well on the way to evaporation and will

  • be pretty much gone by nightfall. Repetition is the only way of ensuring that something

  • will stick. Once youve finished reading a favourite holy text, the story of Moses

  • for example, you head straight back to the beginning and start again, with the bull rushes

  • and the baby infant. We pay a heavy price for our lack of interest in rehearsing lessons

  • and ideas. There are all kinds of things we badly need to keep in our minds: the better

  • parts of our nature that speak to us of being patient, of remaining gentle, of striving

  • for forgiveness, of pausing to appreciate, of straining to understand what at first seems

  • unbearably foreignWeve been taught these things once, of course. But it was a

  • while ago now. Possibly when we were seven. And so, naturally, theyre not at the front

  • of our minds as we career through our lives, smashing into things and people, raging and

  • blaming, slandering and hating. There’s equal, and possibly far greater wisdom to

  • be found in the secular as opposed to the religious sphere, but those who dispense it

  • are far too hopeful about the functioning of our minds. They choose to tell us just

  • once, possibly in quite a low voice, about all the things that matter; maybe in a beautiful

  • but very dense poem or in quite a slow moving novel we once read fitfully over a summer

  • two decades ago. And then they expect us to keep it all in mind our whole lives longand

  • were surprised that the march of human craziness goes on unabated. We should not

  • abandon our most precious insights to the lax guardians of our memories. We need to

  • steal the idea of repetition from religionsand create our own catechisms, our own

  • midnight prayers, our own cycles of rehearsed knowledge. We need to make the most important

  • ideas vivid in our minds on a constant basis. We should never be done with school. We should

  • daily be re-immersed in the great truths: that we will die, that we must understand

  • ourselves, that we must love, that others are sad rather than meanMany of us are

  • done with religion; but we shouldn’t be done with what religions knew so well of our

  • minds: that nothing stays active in them, unless we rehearse and repeat with every new

  • dawn. We need to keep coming backNot least: here.

  • At The School Of Life we believe in developing emotional intelligence.

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繰り返すことでしか学べない理由 (Why We Only Learn When We Repeat)

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    ZhiXuan Tu に公開 2021 年 01 月 14 日
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