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Here’s some background for linked YouTube video titled “HOW TO TEACH ANYTHING & EVERYTHING.”====== To keep the video under 4 minutes, there’s no background given. Teachers would know a lot of it. So these comments are directed more at parents who will be experiencing this con from a distance. One of the big developments in the last 20 years is that the Education Establishment wants to turn teachers into “facilitators.” These people won’t have to know very much because they won’t be allowed to teach very much, not in the old-fashioned sense. They will guide from the side; throw hints...

The Delphi Technique and consensus building are both founded in the same principle - the Hegelian dialectic of thesis, antithesis, and synthesis, with synthesis becoming the new thesis. The goal is a continual evolution to "oneness of mind" (consensus means solidarity of belief) -the collective mind, the wholistic society, the wholistic earth, etc. In thesis and antithesis, opinions or views are presented on a subject to establish views and opposing views. In synthesis, opposites are brought together to form the new thesis. All participants in the process are then to accept ownership of the new thesis and support it, changing...