As I continue to read the book, it becomes less difficult for me to read. Or rather I become accustomed to the way it’s written.
Most authors write this way now,
not only authors of schoolbooks. They assume they must explain ideas to readers who’ve never encountered them
before, so they describe them several times in several ways, hoping their ignorant readers
find something in their limited experience to which they can relate them. No author seems to know there are no new
ideas. All we know, we knew in the
beginning. What seems new to the
ignorant, the wise know is a revival and revision of old ideas.
The
ignorant are ignorant because they see things as facts, separate
and unrelated. Teaching them how to think doesn't consist of making them memorize these isolated facts, but of showing them how things that seem isolated are actually related.
We’re taught
to think of knowledge as isolated facts, and memorize them, by teachers who don't themselves understand how they’re related. Fortunately my childhood
experience with mysticism taught me that everything’s related because we’re all parts of a
greater whole.
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