In my opinion, an
increase in achievement in the direction of a modern form of education aided
by scientific and technical devices alone, will not be sufficient to rid the
world of all of these negative phenomena – any more than the owner of
a pistol is automatically a better person than the owner of a knife.
The aspect of natural thinking and feeling must find its way into modern education
just as much as the computer.
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“The aspect of natural thinking and feeling must find its way into modern education just as much as the computer.” Peter Hübner |
For this reason,
in the Micro Music Laboratories we use, for education, a special music as
a harmonical data carrier. Music is indeed able to address our feelings, our
intellect, and also our thinking in one and, in doing so, access that area
of life which Socrates described as the soul and whose harmonical training
was his greatest societal concern. The same basic rules apply, in this respect,
to setting up the educational material and educational preparations as to
the compilation of the medical preparations.
It will, then, also be medical professionals, who make this important area
of our human educational capabilities measurable and, in doing so, make it
open to the field of objective science.
Modern medicine is, anyway, nearer to that measurable area of our human educational
capabilities than conventional education is, for conventional education does
not concern itself with measurement at all – certainly not in a scientific,
objective, verifiable sense, but perhaps, at most, in the style of the new-age
movement or the world of the esoteric.
The relationship of conventional education to that modern educational method
I have mentioned is perhaps best compared to the relationship of naturopathy
to modern scientific medicine.
Music and Nature: Do you not anticipate having great difficulties with
conventional educationalists – in fact whole states who have the monopoly
on conventional education could oppose you here?
Peter Hübner: At first, our considerations will have no effect on
conventional educationalists – just as little as spiritual healers and
wart charmers were initially affected by modern medicine. For one, they are
on the side of the monopoly and, for another, most of them will probably be
receiving their pensions before this pronounced change in values has succeeded
in overturning the education establishment.
And as far as those states which have the monopoly on education are concerned,
they will not be able to avoid entering the educational Olympic arena with
the international educational market. For, in many places, the education of
the future which I have been talking about has already started up and, today,
it is already having an influence on the international economic market –
and tomorrow it will be even greater.
The citizens of a state which thinks it can simply ignore these developments,
must prepare themselves for a life of modest standards, similar to those we
see in the third world today.
Modern industrial society is far too greedy for material wealth, to embark
on this third-world experiment and to simply ignore these progressive developments
in the field of education which are beginning to emerge, and which are linked
with great economic effects.
But it would certainly be quite interesting to see just what would happen
in a country – currently an industrial nation also up there at the world’s
economic peak – if it thought it could ignore these modern fundamental
developments.
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“The citizens of a state which thinks it can simply ignore these developments, must prepare themselves for a life of modest standards, similar to those we see in the third world today.” Peter Hübner |
Music and Nature:
How do you now imagine practical collaboration between yourself and conventional
educationalists?
Peter Hübner: I do not see any reason for such collaboration, because
there is absolutely no scientifically relevant connection between these types
of education. The contents of the educational curricula taught in schools
today do not improve the intellectual capacity of the pupil or student and,
in the long run, one will barely be able to comprehensibly explain to a person
capable of thought, why he should learn, by rote, the contents of educational
curricula which he can call up on the computer.
Music and Nature:
But pupils must at least learn to read and write in order to use a computer?!
Peter Hübner: I am not so sure, since modern computers with the appropriate
modern programs rely more and more on symbols and, as such, increasingly do
without our conventional understanding of script. And nowadays, as far as
his computer language is concerned, the conventional educational expert is
already a real illiterate in the eyes of the computer expert.
I think that here, too, the conventional educational experts are still in
for some big surprises.
Our conventional script is not the last word in wisdom – otherwise the
Japanese, Chinese, Indians, Arabs, and the people of many other great cultures
would have adopted it long ago.
But the development in computers also clearly shows that pictorial characters
have a better future than our conventional script, for they possess an integrating
quality which is completely unheard of in the conventional script of our European
nations.
Our conventional script, e.g., is to pictorial or symbolic language, what
one-times-one is to integral calculus. And here, too, further development
of the computer’s software will determine the further development and,
with it, the future of the script.
But we are already familiar with such developments from mathematics, physics,
and chemistry. Their symbols cannot be understood by ‘normal mortals’.
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