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     %CULTURE WISE CHILD TEACH MISTAKE LEARN CHANGE 910320

     Each   culture's   community   is  characterized   by
what   it  teaches   the children of its  new  generations
about  change through learning from mistakes made.

     Children  need  to learn how wisely to regard  people
who  refuse  to admit to and to learn from their  own  and
other  people's   mistakes.    It is  dangerous  to  grant
respect   to  people who refuse to acknowledge  their  own
mistakes  and  to profit  from them.   The  society  which
fails  to  teach  its children to regard such people  with
apprehension,   is bound in time to be the victim of  such
dangerous people.

     The   status  quo  of  today  is  inadequate  to  the
inevitably  changed  circumstances  of tomorrow.   It is a
mistake   to thoughtlessly maintain patterns  of  behavior
from  one   year  to   the  next  without  change.    Each
community  must  promote wise  change,   or fall victim of
the   mistakes  implicit   in  maintaining   inappropriate
patterns.   Each community  must promote  the  withholding
of  respect  from members  of  the community  who fail  to
recognize,    admit  to  and learn  from  mistakes   made.
Children  must be taught by role modeling,  theory,    and
practice  how to recognize such fools,   and to help  such
fools to become more honest by proving them with  contexts
in  which they may feel secure in  admitting  to their own
mistakes,  so that they and others can learn from mistakes
made.

     To learn  from their mistakes members of  a community
need t detach  from  perfectionists'   ideals  and  detach
from  according  respect to the appearance of  perfection.
Respect  should  be  accorded to  people  who  learn  from
mistakes,   not to  those  people  who appear not to  have
made   mistakes.  There  should be appropriate  skepticism
about   people  who appear  never to make mistakes,    for
such appearances  are most  likely  dishonest impressions,
designed  to   satisfy perfectionists  who  are  dangerous
people to have around.

     To maintain  communal  and  personal  integrity  each
community must  develop and constantly update an  adequate
theory  of how  to  promote  wise change through  learning
from   the  mistakes  made by its members;   changing  the
theory  in  the light  of experience which is  openly  and
honestly   talked  about,    in reflexive  contexts  which
encourage   people  to recognize  changes which need to be
made in how they  view themselves  and each other.  In the
absence  of such  wise,  efforts  there is likely to be  a
progressive   degeneration  into   the   consequences   of
collusions,     addictions  and codependent   support   of
people   making   the  mistake  of pretending not to  make
mistakes.

     An adequate theory  of  promoting  wise change and an
adequate  educational program which  incorporates  such  a
theory,   must include  consideration of the  dynamics  of
processes     which   will      tend      to      generate
confusion,       opposition,   forgetfulness,   deception,
repression,   and subversion;  with respect  to  what  the
theory and the  educational  program offers.    Each   new
generation   needs   encouragement   in sustaining such  a
meta-theory,   and such a meta-educational program.   Each
parent,    teacher,   professor,   religious  leader   and
administrator   has  a responsibility  to   provide   such
encouragement.
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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