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I can remember reading Alan Watts in 1996 on the way back from a cross country excursion with my buddy Dan. I was memorized by his writing and out of the box thinking. He challenged the notion of …. well …. everything. Fast forward to this morning (April 3, 2014) and I am listening to a podcast. During the podcast, someone mentioned Alan Watts, and then they played a talk he gave on education system. Again, I was mesmerized.

He likened the educational system to a series of experiences designed to get you from one place to another…. one grade to another…. and on and on and on…. I’ve thought about this many times… In school, time is the variable and learning is the variable.

Check out this thoughtful video set to the prolific words of Alan Watts (most likely delivered in the 1950s or 1960s). Makes you think about how we have not really changed too much…. But we could…