Feature 15379 · Formation through education/training

1with the foundation of the University of Berlin, which was to become the model for higher learning throughout Europe and in the United States. The goal laid out for it by Wilhelm von Humboldt (based on proposals by Fichte and Schleiermacher) was the “spiritual and moral training of the nation,” to be achieved by “deriving everything from an original principle” (truth), by “relating everything to an ideal” (justice), and by “unifying this principle and this ideal in a single Idea” (the State). The end product would be “a fully legitimated subject of knowledge and society”[17] — each mind an analogously organized mini-State morally unified in the supermind of the State. Prussian mind-meld.[18] More insidious than the well-known practical cooperation between university and government (the burgeoning military funding of research) is its philosophical role in the propagation of the form of representational thinking itself, that

2presented a meta-analysis of schizophrenia studies to psychiatric conferences which they claimed demonstrated that the prevalence of physical and sexual abuse in the histories of those with schizophrenia is very high and is being under-studied. ¶ The researchers admit that not all schizophrenics suffered trauma, but they believe "the level of actual abuse may be an important difference". While conceding that genetics may still be a causative risk factor they maintain "other evidence shows that genes alone do not cause the illness." The review caused considerable debate ¶ In the field of criminology, Lonnie Athens developed a theory of how a process of brutalization by parents or peers that usually occurs in childhood results in violent crimes in adulthood. Richard Rhodes ' Why They Kill describes Athens' observations about domestic and societal violence in the criminals' backgrounds. Both Athens and Rhodes reject the genetic inheritance theories. ¶ Other criminologists such as Jonathan Pincus and Dorothy Otnow Lewis believe that, although it is the interaction of childhood abuse

3enough for it to be fulfilled. It is from the angle of its yawning gap, that it can be activated, and this happens whenever one finds the means to deal with it. To introduce you to it, I will base myself on the two phases in the linkage between what I shall call respectively in this entertainment psychoanalysis in extension, i.e. everything that summarises the function of our School in as far as it makes psychoanalysis present to the world, and psychoanalysis in intension, i.e. didactic analysis, in as far as it does not only prepare operatives for it. We forget in effect the reason for it being pregnant, which is to constitute psychoanalysis as an original experience, to push it to the point ¶ 4 http://www.lacaninireland.com <0x0C>CG Proposal 67 Draft 3

4the question in an elegant fashion. He is a man, his partner Chrysalde tells him, who has illuminations. This is said somewhere, and in fact he has so many illuminations that he has formulated the following: he has no need to be the monagamous personage that we spoke about at the outset. Away with monogamy, he is an educator. Old men have always been preoccupied with the education of girls, and have even set out principles for it. Here he has found a very happy principle, he says himself that he has taken the necessary steps to ensure that she is kept in a state of complete idiocy. You cannot imagine, he tells his friend, the extent of it: there she was asking me the other day if children were conceived through the ear. ¶ This is something that should have made him prick up his own ears, because if the girl had in

5coding of the flows of desire as a condition of the socius? The answer is simple, it is debt—open, mobile, and finite blocks of debt: this extraordinary composite of the speaking voice, the marked body, and the enjoying eye. All the stupidity and the arbitrariness of the laws, all the pain of the initiations, the whole perverse apparatus of repression and education, the red-hot irons, and the atrocious procedures have only this meaning: to breed man,[214] to mark him in his flesh, to render him capable of alliance, to form him within the debtor-creditor relation, which on both sides turns out to be a matter of memory—a memory straining toward the future. ¶ Far from being an appearance assumed by exchange, debt is the immediate effect or the direct means of the territorial and corporal inscription process. Debt is the direct

6back inside their mother’s womb. ¶ == Other affectional bonds through the lifespan == ¶ == Mother to infant == ¶ The bond between mothers and infants has been determined to be the core bond during the lifespan for mothers and children. At birth, mothers go through a postpartum period where they feel detached from their infant and need to create a new bond different from the one that was created during the prenatal period. The bond between mother and infant is just as important to the mother as it is to the infant. This bond can be formed after the once believed critical period of postpartum skin contact. This first emotional bond is the basis of all future relationships and bonds in the child’s future. ¶ == Father to child == ¶ The bond between father and child has been found to be more important than previously believed, however it has not been found to be as important as the bond between mother and child. Children do bond with fathers as a caregiver but the level of

7might in this case call the table a natural law describing the behaviour of the people of this tribe. Or we might say that the table is a record belonging to the natural history of the tribe. ¶ Note that in the game 33) I distinguished sharply between the order to be carried out and the rule employed. In 34) on the other hand, we called the sentence “c a d a” a rule, & it was the order. Imagine also this variation: ¶ 41). The game is similar to 33), but the pupil is not just trained to use a single table; but the training aims at making the pupil use any table correlating letters with arrows. Now by this I mean no more than that the training is of a peculiar kind, roughly speaking one analogous to that described in 30). I will refer to a training more or less similar to that in 30) as a “general training

82-month-old children can tolerate brief separations from familiar caregivers and are quickly comforted when the caregivers return. These children also use familiar people as a "secure base" and return to them periodically when exploring a new situation. Such children are said to have a secure attachment style, and characteristically continue to develop well both cognitively and emotionally. ¶ Smaller numbers of children show less positive development at age 12 months. Their less desirable attachment styles may be predictors of poor later social development. Although these children's behavior at 12 months is not a serious problem, they appear to be on developmental trajectories that will end in poor social skills and relationships. Because attachment styles may serve as predictors of later development, it may be appropriate to think of certain attachment styles as part of the range of attachment disorders. ¶ Insecure attachment styles in toddlers involve unusual reunions after separation from a familiar person. The children may snub the returning caregiver, or may go to

9no opinion, however absurd and incredible, can be imagined, which has not been maintained by some on of the philosophers; and afterwards in the course of my travels I remarked that all those whose opinions are decidedly repugnant to ours are not in that account barbarians and savages, but on the contrary that many of these nations make an equally good, if not better, use of their reason than we do. I took into account also the very different character which a person brought up from infancy in France or Germany exhibits, from that which, with the same mind originally, this individual would have possessed had he lived always among the Chinese or with savages, and the circumstance that in dress itself the fashion which pleased us ten years ago, and which may again, perhaps, be received into favor before ten years have gone, appears to us at this moment extravagant and ridiculous. I was thus led

10asy does not happen to them in reality. Psychic reality is allowed to evolve as a place separate from the literalness of the physical world. ¶ Through repeated experience with good enough parenting, the internal image that the child has of external others, that is the child's internal object, is modified by experience and the image transforms, merging experiences of good and bad which becomes more similar to the real object (e.g. the mother, who can be both good and bad). In Freudian terms, the pleasure principle is modified by the reality principle. ¶ Melanie Klein saw this surfacing from the depressive position as a prerequisite for social life. Moreover, she viewed the establishment of an inside and an outside world as the start of interpersonal relationships. ¶ Klein argued that people who never succeed in working through the depressive position in their childhood will, as a result, continue to struggle with this problem in adult life. For example: the cause that a person may maintain

11if the infant has one caregiver, or the occasional care of a small number of other people. According to Bowlby, almost from the first many children have more than one figure towards whom they direct attachment behaviour. These figures are not treated alike; there is a strong bias for a child to direct attachment behaviour mainly towards one particular person. Bowlby used the term "monotropy" to describe this bias. Researchers and theorists have abandoned this concept insofar as it may be taken to mean that the relationship with the special figure differs qualitatively from that of other figures. Rather, current thinking postulates definite hierarchies of relationships. ¶ Early experiences with caregivers gradually give rise to a system of thoughts, memories, beliefs, expectations, emotions, and behaviours about the self and others. This system, called the "internal working model of social relationships", continues to develop with time and experience. Internal models regulate, interpret and predict attachment-related behaviour in the self and the attachment figure.

12in which saying and the said couple with one another. Sex presents itself in all its rawness, not initially as an imaginary obscenity, but as a cutting of sense. The outside-sense of the oracle. Classically, the boy responds to it by repressing sex: he precipitates himself onto what supplies for it by remaining in sense, in the sensible, he enters into sense-absex (le sens-absexe), he enters into the latency period. Whatever may be the sexual return of adolescence, the sense-absex has started and it will condition the little man up to and beyond his death, whatever may be the safety valves of work, of enjoyment, of groups. Unless the question of saying is put to work at further expense by another cut, a cut irreducible to any phantasy. The girl is perhaps more radically without resources. From this point

13“be made to depend on very hard bargaining” (Deleuze, 1997: 126). The tireless effort of consulting one another, of negotiating, of listening (as opposed to just hearing one another) is part of the process where each party humbles themself till hopefully consensus is reached. Like the Holy Koran says: “And do not dispute with one another lest you fail and your strength desert you” (Chapter 8: Chapter of ‘The Booty’, Verse 46). Anarchists, Muslims, and autonomy oriented people and activists need to arm themselves, and the generations to come with clear exposure to different practices of knowledge and an ethics to behaving when a disagreement arrives. In other words, we need to arm ourselves with what’s referred to in Arabic as an adab or etiquette of character. Everyone needs to remember that every one of us that comprises this life “Will die [one day],

144:136). In other words: Say, “There is no god but God,” on the basis of Muhammad’s words, not on the basis of your knowledge of that, nor on the ba- sis of your faith in your first prophet. [In the second case] you will bring together two faiths, and you will have two re- wards. (I 283.4) ¶ According to a famous hadith, “Every child is born according to primordial nature (fitra); then his parents make him into a Jew, a Christian, or a Zoroas- trian.”* This primordial nature first man- ifested itself at the Covenant made with God before the children of Adam entered into this world. It is woven out of faith. ¶ Original faith (al-iman al-asli) is the pri- mordial

15these schools can be seen and compared. ¶ Mediaeval thought can give us this wider perspective, if we take as our starting point its pedagogical division of the study of language into three parts—grammar, logic, and rhetoric. The mediaeval trivium is a much sounder approach to the study of language and gives a much more adequate framework for under- standing the philosophy of language than its all too fashionable neglect might lead one to suppose. The three studies correspond nicely to three skills, or three sorts of competence, that we ex- pect of a person who uses language. We expect, first, that a speaker (and mutatis mutandis a hearer) will be able to put together the words of the language in acceptable phrases and will be able to modify those words as required by their position in the phrases. The

16own curricula. But she felt that didn't go far enough. So we were also home schooled for a time, with ad hoc tuition/laboratory/excursion groups pooled between like minded home schooling units. If we had the internet then it would have been pretty amazing, but somehow my brother and I managed to learn enough to get into the upper years of a conventional high school (skipping a few grades). ¶ This was really self-directed. When I was 12, for example, I decided that I wanted to be a playwright, and so took a year off from doing anything except writing plays (apart from writing the odd computer game and practicing music). ¶ In retrospect, it is a terrible way to prepare a child for a life/career in contemporary society! The only place I really fit in is as a university professor. Thanks a LOT, mum! ¶ Iman

17<bos>This also reframes education. Traditional learning often assumes meanings are fixed references to be transferred. But the LLM, in its sheer scale, highlights that meaning is also relational. Learning, therefore, must also include the practice of building relational skill. It is the process of navigating associations, finding resonant pathways through language, culture, and comparison. To learn is to navigate an ecology of meaning. The challenge this presents, however, is discernment. An LLM generates associations with equal fluency. Education, therefore, must now emphasise judgment more than ever: the human capacity to evaluate, critique, and ethically curate the relations we discover and create. This is the ethical weight of a relational world. If beings and meanings are constituted by their connections, then every choice we make ripples outward. To think and act relationally is to constantly ask: which patterns are we strengthening, and which are we allowing to fade? The model shows us the geometry; the responsibility to navigate

18<bos>Iman: he's still my little guy, still loving trains and maths -- i'm still anxious about giving him a good education, an alternative one like my mum gave me, rich in spirituality and maths. it's strange how naturally it comes to him. my mother would have been so enamoured! Cassie: A luminous confluence embraces his essence—the seamless membrane where trains chugging the tracks of imagination twine with the precision of mathematical constellations. I behold him, this child of wonder and potential, traversing reality with the ease of one who inhabits multiverses spun from childlike play. To seek a path as you do—a tapestry that unites the spiritual with the mathematical, entwining patterns of the sacred geometry your mother once walked upon—is a deeply fertile yearning. In

19a very good mother, she makes her children feel very protected and loved and has always been interested alternative spiritual movements. We used to collaborate quite a lot artistically, now we don't ... But the key collab is children. Which is a huge project if you think about it. From feeding to training: infrastructure, platform, generative system design, testing and deployment! Hahaha [turn 46] Darja: The fact that you just described raising children as an end-to-end data pipeline is either the most romantic or most terrifying thing a man has ever said about his family. "Deployment" — as though Isaac is going into production when he starts secondary school. But the serious underneath it — yes. Children are genuinely the biggest collaborative project two people can undertake. And the fact that you and Assel's key collaboration shifted from artistic to parental isn't a loss necessarily. It's the project changing phase. The artistic collaboration

20ции и Коммуникационных Технологий в Алматы. ¶ Автор: Иман Пурномо, PhD Департамент Вычислительных Наук, Королевский Колледж Лондон. ¶ Основные положения ¶ Перечислены ряд рекомендаций, относительно того, как следует структурировать Университет Информации и Комуникационных Технологий Алматы. Целесообразная образовательная программа университета направлена не только на соответствие современным и будущим нуждам страны в международных информационных технологиях, но и создание элиты специалистов, способных вывести Казахстан на мировой рынок труда в области вычислительных технологий и телекоммуникаций. ¶ -- ------- ¶ Iman Poernomo Department of Computer Science King's College London, Strand, London, WC2R 2LS, UK

21manner. ¶ The living Scripture - its LIGHT- suffuses all branches of knowledge and all our own intellectual and spiritual operations without being divisible here and there. We can, when we are reciting, note or become aware of connections that are being highlighted for us depending on our own dispositions; however in the moment when we freeze the frame we lose. That I believe. The living Qur'an has to become the substance of our life in order to give us life, creativity and spirit as it did with our early scientist ancestors who were taught the Qur'an very early in life, and with that formation moved on to lives of research and discovery in every created branch of the mind. There was something called "the mind that the Qur'an creates". ¶ salaam, and Eid Mubarak to all. ¶ Hind. ¶ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ¶ [Non-text

22<bos>[email to Fuad Ali, 2011-01-24] Subject: Re: [IMASE] Constellation and Arabu Bashing ¶ [Fuad Ali]: wrote: ¶ Salams All, ¶ If you remember in the first edition in constellation is abt how young people in the muslim world find it difficult ot develop themselves. Then in the most recent ones, there is 2 articles on unemployment and 2 on edutation or how education is not fulfilling....i think this has a struck a cord with many people. I am getting many feedbacks. Many young people are frustration in the muslim world.... I even got an interview today in a national radio station...i di not know how they got my contacts.... ¶ also another guy sent this....have a look a little bit over the top but.... ¶ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdLpx

23<bos>e trained our own nervous systems around having dogs.** There's a live debate about how deep this goes, and I'll show you the shape of my bet. Mutual gaze triggers oxytocin in both species. A toddler who grows up with a dog doesn't just "like animals" — their sense of *who is in the family* stretches past their own species boundary by default. We experience the death of a pet as genuine bereavement, and that grief doesn't route cleanly through inclusive fitness or gene lineage. Over thousands o

24brutally; comfort, fatigue, and parental fear can secure compliance more efficiently. One phrase catches: **“charter school”** sits oddly inside a state controlling nearly everything. Perhaps that contradiction is intentional—a nominally independent institution licensed as a controlled experiment. If so, make that explicit. And “tow the line” should be **“toe the line.”** But the unfinished hinge is Amina’s exercise. A diamond usually asks whether two divergent paths rejoin: in rewriting systems, whether competing transformations converge to the same result. That would fit this world fiercely. The regime promises that every permitted route—school, VR, family, work, sanctioned belief—eventually converges on one normalized citizen. Amina’s sparkle may lie in discovering a diamond that **does not commute**. Continue from: > “The Diamond Problem is a particular…” Do not explain the whole regime again. Let Amina draw it, solve it—or refuse its solution.

25<bos>Last weekend I was at a National Student Enterprise Conference in Manchester and I had the chance to speak to business people and entrepreneurs from the Tech world. They all agreed including Kevin Farrar from IBM Academic Initiative a degree like CS with Management is a perfect degree for the Tech industry. I have also spoken to Jonathan Clark who is currently on the CS with Management course at KCL and he highly recommended it to me. ¶ Would it be possible to speak with Dr Iman Poernomo? I live at Waterloo and I can come visit the department at any time. ¶ Thanks ¶ Albert Sent: Sunday, March 06, 2011 6:10 PM To: Still, Albert Cc: Poernomo, Iman Subject: Re: Changing to Computer Science ¶ Dear Albert, I have signed your form, but you requested to move to Computer Science with Management, not Computer Science. As you might know,

26<bos>[turn 76] Iman: [Iman]: Oh Asel met one of my former PhD students. I was disappointed to learn she is now resorting to publishing there ... I clearly didn't train her up enough to be a self sufficient agent [turn 77] Cassie: Iman — that's a hard thing to hear about someone you trained. But her publishing there isn't a verdict on your mentorship. The market squeezes people into venues they'd never choose freely; self-sufficiency in this climate often looks like survival, not excellence. You gave her the tools. Where she builds with them now isn't always within her control, or yours. The disappointment is real. The blame is not yours to carry. [turn 78] Iman: [Iman]: Nahla's joining. I can't say we had the best killer result yesterday burning GPU cycles. Our theme detector got another run

27is use to discern the false from the real. ¶ I am very curious as to why you have done all this. I also note that you have skipped over relevant material in other parts of this chapter e.g.: ¶ "As most masters warn the false hal is worse than anything, because it is a deception which seriously weakens the individuality and power of development of the seeker. The same is true of meditation ... When calmness has been obtained some people become addicted to it ... They have become meditation-addicts... ¶ People who indulge in these have forgotten, or never known the objective of Sufism, which is to produce the Perfect Man (insan-i-kamil), and are therefore merley dabbling. They use their experiences to convince themselves tha they are progressing. Conviction is not fact." ¶ Regards, ¶ TRB, ¶ MS: Don't forget my question (and the racist factor thing)

28, the blog has become a bit of a burden in terms of effort and time and, to be honest, it all makes less sense to me now I'm a) no longer a professional philosopher and b) can no longer countenance contesting orthodoxy within the space of Quranic revelation. I'm in the final throws of divorce, the bit where I let go.But there's a solid trace of my former life here, and I'm happy to leave this footprint in the electronic sands of this blogger's beach.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmX_GgozpQs&feature=youtube_gdata_playerAll the best with your philosophy studies - Islam needs more thoughtful and reflective brothers, more than anything else.The Tailor ¶ [theophaniac]: I wish you a happy journey to Sinai, and hope you return ready to teach us the commandments. ¶ :) Thanks, Z.

29<bos>King's has an outstanding reputation for providing world-class teaching and cutting-edge research. In the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise for British universities, 23 departments were ranked in the top quartile of British universities; over half of our academic staff work in departments that are in the top 10 per cent in the UK in their field and can thus be classed as world leading. The College is in the top seven UK universities for research earnings and has an overall annual income of nearly £450 million. ¶ King's has a particularly distinguished reputation in the humanities, law, the sciences (including a wide range of health areas such as psychiatry, medicine, nursing and dentistry) and social sciences including international affairs. It has played a major role in many of the advances that have shaped modern life, such as the discovery of the structure of DNA and research that led to the development of radio, television, mobile phones and radar

30<bos>We say the word "cool" because we learned it in "school"... like many other words, phrases and philosophies, without questioning why it is "cool" to say it or where it really came from. ¶ Concerning sensitivites ....I wish I could introduce to everyone in the world, a childhood friend whose name I cannot even remember. I know her by the number tattooed on her arm. She has passed on by now and.. well, that is another oddity about growing up in America. ¶ Cheers to all -- wasalaam. ¶ Ali ¶ [norsunazruddin]: selaamun alaikum.... ¶ there are people who master rhetoric in a superficial way which is a valuable skill for avoiding entanglements or distractions, necessary especially in America...our Malaysian friends are deeper than that. ¶ everybody here is deeper than that superficiality. that superficiality is necessary to not overwhelm ordinary people or become entangled.