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rt.schizophrenia
From: fedora@fea.st
On Fri, 23 Jul 2021 07:47:33 -0700, one wrote:
>Noah wrote:
>
>>It depends on what a person needs to learn.
>
>Aye, asked my friend who was restoring a car,
>when he said he needed something for it,
>if he needed it or wanted it.
>
>He said he needed it because he wanted it.
>
>> Certainly growing up
>>around water helps, but many people do need to be taught to swim. And
>>if you are drowning, you probably won't figure it out in time. Best
>>bet is to learn before, and if necessary, get a teacher.
>
>Growing up, there were backyard swimming pools and
>across the street three boys about my age, two a little older.
>
>Learning to swim, I was told, hang on to the side of the pool
>and go under the water. And so it was I learned to swim
>under water at first and then learned to dog-paddle.
>
>Eventually, swimming the width, then the length
>of the pools under-water was easy for me.
>The crawl was never my noun-thing.
>
>Learning how to hold one's breath,
>to walk and talk might take practice.
>
>Tao Chia has several tales of how practice makes for a Tao.
>
>To think an education is part of the equation, a university
>education, with walls, a room full of students and professors
>who profess what they learned, a thinker might.
>
>I liked going to school as an adult.
>It was fun. And so it went.
Yes, not nearly so oppressive to a child's spirit as grade school. The
story we hear now is that grade schoolers are eager to get back to
real classrooms. Could that be so, I wonder?
>- for a time being ... as an eternal being ...
--
Noah Sombrero
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