The document discusses issues with traditional education systems and proposes alternative frameworks. It advocates for recognizing multiple intelligences, mapping subjects to individual interests and needs, and creating a learning environment where students are curious, exposed to new ideas, and find the process pleasurable and involving. The goal is to make learning as natural as breathing by transforming education from an industrial model and empowering students as independent learners.
3. Victor Frankl
Existential Vacuum
Two BIG Losses
Sense of Meaning
to understand one’s dream
Basic Animal Instinct
to believe that one can achieve one’s dream
4. Sir Ken Robinson
The Learning Revolution
Human Resource Crisis
TALENT
We use very poor of our talent
IDENTITY
A lack of understanding of ourselves
5. School
Heritage of The Industrial Era
INPUT SCHOOL OUTPUT
School Industrialization
Focus on Logic and Linguistic
Operates in a Mechanical Model
Transformed to be Human Manufacturer
33. Making
Friend
Strategy
Animal
Talk
Sing
Lover
Seclusive
Moving
Daydreaming
Inter
Musical
Linguistik
Naturalist
Story
Telling
Understand
Rhythm
Understand
Empathy
Decisive
Disassembling
Nature
Lover
Teaching
Playing a
Music
Raising
Tone
Animal
personal
Farming
Nature
Hear Read
Write
Logic
Listening
to Music
Reasoning
Counting Sorting
Asking
Spatial
Observing
Picture
Building Drawing
Doodling
Kinesthetic
Active
Disorganized Touching
Sensitive
Intra
personal
Confidence
Expressive Introspection
Teamwork Sociable
Editor's Notes
In his book “Man’s Search For Meaning”, Viktor E. Frankl demonstrate how the modern civilization is suffered of a psychological disease, he named Existential Vacuum. He believed that Existential Vacuum is as a result of the lost of two important things in a human-being;
Sense of meaning, the ability to understand what he/she really want and dream of. People with existential vacuum doesn’t really understand what they really want, and as a result they mimic what others want and need. They want what others wants.
The second lost is the lost of basic animal instinct. The lost of the faith that regardless of their condition they can and will achieve what they really wanted. People with existential vacuum tend to put security as their first need, and move away from challenge and risk.
Sir Ken Robinson, in a TED Conference:
We are facing a crisis, which is as severe as the climate or economy crisis, which has the same origin, and which we have to deal with at the same urgency. It’s the crisis of Human Resources. We are making a very poor use of our talents. Very many people have gone through their whole life having no real sense of their talents may be, or if they having any to speak of. There are people who don’t enjoy what they do, they simply go through their life, they endure their life rather than enjoy life. But there are also people who really love what they do, and couldn’t imagine stop doing their work.
It’s not enough people who understand about their talents or strengths. In the contrary, it’s the minority of people. There are many possibility among it, high among them is education. Because education in a way dislocate many people from their natural talent. Human resources are often buried deep, you have to go looking for them and you have to create circumstances where they show themselves. You could imagine, education is in a way that help that to happen, but it’s not. Education systems in the world is being reformed, but it’s not enough, because reform means simply improving broken model. What we need is not evolution, but a revolution in education, it has to be transformed into something else.
One of the real challenge is to innovate fundamentally in education. Innovation is hard, it’s mean doing something don’t find very easy for the most part, it means challenging what we take for granted, things that we think are obvious. The great problem for transformation is the tyranny of common sense, things that people think that it could not be in other way, because that it’s the way it’s done. There are ideas that we are enthralled to, which we simply take for granted, it’s the natural order things, the way things are. Many of our ideas has been formed not to meet the circumstances of this century, but the previous centuries, but our mind are still hypnotized by them, and we have to disenthrall ourselves from them, or some or them including our education system.
There are ideas that we enthralled to in education. One of them is the idea of linearity.
Soon as the industrial revolution took place, the need for specific skilled human resources increased significantly. The scarcity of competent resource to fulfil the industry needs lead to the upsurge of labour's wage. This condition encouraged middle-class (and poor) families to obtain the needed skill in order to improve their standard of living. Amongst all types of intelligence, there are two types that had became the focus of the industry; Logic, the ability to solve paternal problems and Linguistic, capability to understand terms and to work as a team. Eventually, these focus has lasted for centuries and has became success parameter; that logic and linguistic are the property of a success person.
Elevation of industrial need was echoed by the increasing number of families wanted to obtain the needed skills. The number of enthusiasts led to the need of a more effective knowledge transfer system. School became the answer. School had turned to be a human manufactory. School adopted the industrial system by trying to answer “how can we produce standardized human resource with a minimum cost and effort?”. Human had been treated mechanically rather than organically.
In their effort to accommodate the largely diverse human talent, school constantly tried to standardized and determine the most representing intelligence profile of children of all age. Moreover, in order to specify the most suitable learning plan for them, education system had defined a linear equation in the form of curriculum that showed a so-they-called-ideal model of a student performing a learning process. In the learning process, children was ‘unfairly’ compared to an ideal model, specified by the education system, and labeled in a form of score and report card.
There are two major problems generated by linearization at school. First, children which has different intelligence profile will be marked incompetent, or, even worse, labeled learning-disabled. Along his years at school, he will be known as a fool as he has low-scored report card. This chronic condition, indirectly make he feels incompetent. He is learning that he is the fool, and in the long run he will belief that it is true that he is the fool. He tend to lose his sense of meaning and lose his faith that he can reach his dream and goal. He tend to suffer from existential vacuum.
Human ability to use his mind has made them surpassed all creature in the world and helped them reached their dreams.
Everyone is smart in their own way. It’s a huge mistake to let someone learn that he is stupid just because he is different. We cannot judge that an onion is a failure just because he is not as spicy as pepper. Or because the corn cannot get as red as chili. Like a farmer, we cannot determine what a child is going to be. But we can ensure that the soil is so fertile, that whoever he will become, he will flourish.
“Everything that human do is an effort to fulfill his needs” Human Needs Psychology, Anthony Robbins.
Learning is an act of a conscious mind to acquire knowledge because he has believed that it will fulfill his needs.
Curiosity is a mental state that represent the needs of knowledge acquisition.
Without curiosity, learning never take place.
Before we even begin to expose a student to a learning media of any form (i.e. teacher, book, reading materials, learning kits, etc.), we need to first stimulate their curiosity.
There are 3 phases that precede curiosity:
1. A specific activity that is exposed to a learner.
2. This experience stimulate the learner to create mental association that a specific skill or knowledge will help his needs fulfillment.
3. Excitement to fulfill this need drive the learner to actively involved which will bring a state of understanding that there is a gap between his current ability and the required ability. The urge to close this gap is what we called curiosity.
Being curious is the ideal condition to bring learning media to the learner. Learning is a natural act of a human being. We will never be able to walk or talk without learning it.
How can we stimulate each state?
How do we determine the ideal activity to be exposed to the learner for a specific subject?
How can we know what is (are) their need(s)?
How can we create a map between a skill set and their needs fulfilment?
Ultimately, how can we stimulate the learner to sustain curiosity?
“There are forces that constantly affecting our association. Invisible forces that controlling our triads state. One of the strongest force that drive us is our motive, why we do what we do.” Human Needs Psychology, Anthony Robbins.
Motive
Everything that a Human do, conscious unconsciously, is to fulfil their needs. There are 6 needs in every human. Every action and behaviour that we do is our effort to fulfil these needs. The difference between one man and another is how strong each needs affecting them and what they do to fulfil it.
Certainty. Firm conviction that he will gain pleasure and avoid pain.
Uncertainty, or variety. Getting Surprise, different stimulus, changes in their state, get a different feeling.
Significance. Feeling significant, special, unique, respected, different, important and needed.
Love and Connection. To love and to be love. To be part of a group or community, acceptance.
Growth. Feeling of getting better, became more.
Contribution. Sensation of helping, giving, helping, and useful.
Every one of us has 2 needs that affecting us the most. The 2 most important needs
Every time someone associates that a specific thought, feeling, or behaviour can fulfil at least 3 of his needs, then that specific thought, feeling or behaviour will become a habit and addiction.
*smoking*
*eat*
*sleep*
*swearing*
*exercising*
*studying*
Understanding how a learner behave, what is the forces that drive them to do what they do will greatly help us to stimulate the learner to create mental association that a specific skill or knowledge will help his needs fulfillment.
Every single person has a unique intelligence profile. There are at least 8 element that composed an intelligence profile, and they are:
Linguistic. The intelligence in using and understanding language effectively. This intelligence is the property of someone to read, write, spell, and memorize words.
Logic. The intelligence to calculate, understanding pattern and using logic in problem solving.
Musical. The intelligence in using tone, memorizing melody, following rhythm, or simply enjoying music.
Kinesthetic. The intelligence in coordinating muscles and boy. This is the property of sportsman, dancer, actor, even sewer, surgeon, guitarist, etc.
Spatial. The intelligence in understanding space, shape and their co-relation. This is the property that needed to imagine a picture or creating 3-dimensional crafts.
Interpersonal. Intelligence in understanding others and working as a team. This is the property to understand and influence others, and potentially used to manipulate others.
Intrapersonal. The intelligence in understanding self and having self-control.
Naturalist. The intelligence in understanding nature, animals and plants. This is the property that we need to adapt and understand nature.
Each of us has intelligence profile that constructed from different elements. Each of us has a unique intelligence profile. This profile has a strong influence to our talents and aptitude. Education should be personalized. Not only to create a fun learning, but above all is to help learner to understand themselves.
Before we even begin stimulating the phase in EPIC MIND, we need to first understand how the learner’s mind behaving.
Pleasure Mapping is a very useful tool to get a more effective lesson plan to get the learner to create mental association that a specific skill or knowledge will help his needs fulfillment.
Pleasure Map is built from understanding the learner’s need structure and their Intelligence Element.
Untuk memulai fase dalam EPIC MIND™ dan menstimulasi keinginan siswa untuk terlibat dalam suatu aktifitas, ada 2 karakter dari siswa yang harus dipahami oleh seorang Coach; Elemen kecerdasan dan motif dasar siswa. Permasalahannya, kebanyakan siswa tidak mampu menjelaskan karakter tersebut dalam dirinya. Mereka cenderung menunjukkan dan menyampaikannya secara tersirat, berupa kode-kode perilaku dan kata-kata. Seorang Coach harus mampu menterjemahkan kode tersebut dan mengartikannya menjadi elemen kecerdasan dan motif.
Hakikatnya semua elemen kecerdasan ada pada diri setiap siswa. Elemen kecerdasan ini bersifat dinamis, akan terus berkembang seiring beragamnya jenis aktifitas siswa. Bagaimanapun juga, profil kecerdasan yang dimiliki setiap orang unik. Profil kecerdasan ini sangat mempengaruhi kebiasaan dan cara berfikir seorang siswa terhadap suatu aktifitas. Setiap elemen kecerdasan memiliki indikator-indikator yang khas. Untuk menterjemahkan pola prilaku dan cara berpikir siswa menjadi elemen kecerdasan, seorang Coach harus memahami indikator-indikator yang mewakili masing-masing elemen kecerdasan, baik indikator berupa aktifitas, maupun cara berpikir.
Maintaining Rapport is a crucial factor in the attempt of influencing learner. Rapport helps in breaking learner’s defence fortress. Rapport build similarity between coach and the learner. Every phase in EPIC MIND is nothing but influence. Maintaining rapport is one of the most crucial factor.
Rapport can only build when trust, similarity, and intimacy happen between coach and the learner. There are 2 keywords in maintaining Rapport; Respect and Helpful.
Respect – Don’t Judge, Understand
The biggest mistake of a coach is analyzing then labelling the learner. Giving label can wipe trust from the learner and also limits the learner’s ability. Labelling is a form of one-way-judgment, which is unfair and should not be done. Tools in EPIC MIND intended to help coach to understand rather than labelling and judging. We have to believe that everyone is smart in their own way and deserved to be respected as their true self.
Helpful – Always Relate to Their Benefit
Semua tindakan yang dilakukan seseorang adalah upayanya untuk memenuhi kebutuhannya. Hal yang sama berlaku pula dalam hubungan antara dua manusia. Hubungan yang baik akan tercipta jika adanya keyakinan bahwa hubungan tersebut akan membantu memenuhi kebutuhannya. Adanya kepercayaan dari siswa bahwa keberadaan Coach adalah untuk membantu memenuhi kebutuhannya, akan mempercepat terciptanya rapport. Seorang Coach harus mampu menempatkan diri sehingga apapun yang dilakukan dan direncanakannya senantiasa merujuk pada pemenuhan kebutuhan dan kebaikan bagi siswa. Yang perlu diperhatikan adalah bahwa siswa akan bertindak dan berbicara secara tersirat. Tindakan dan perkataan siswa tidak secara gamblang menunjukkan apa kebutuhannya sebenarnya. Apa yang dimintanya secara langsung, belum tentu merupakan apa yang sebenarnya ia butuhkan. Sering kali perminataan siswa bertolak belakang dengan kebutuhannya yang sebenarnya. Memahami siswa akan membantu Coach dalam bertindak dan menunjukkan bahwa tindakan Coach merujuk pada upayanya membantu memenuhi kebutuhan siswa.
Pre-framing – Say it Forward
Pre-framing adalah salah satu strategi untuk mengarahkan fokus. Pre-framing efektif digunakan untuk mempercepat terciptanya rapport dengan mengendalikan dan menjaga fokus siswa pada saat rapport dibangun. Arahan pre-framing pada saat pembentukan rapport adalah bahwa coach bertujuan untuk membantu siswa, semua tindakan yang dilakukan coach mengacu pada pemenuhan kebutuhan siswa.
Pre-framing menjaga fokus siswa pada apa kebutuhan siswa yang sedang coba dipenuhi coach dan bagaimana cara memenuhi kebutuhan itu.
Framing juga berguna untuk memberikan umpan balik kepada coach mengenai apa yang akan dirasakan oleh siswa dalam kaitannya dengan pemenuhan kebutuhan siswa. Umpan balik ini akan
Pre-framing dilakukan dengan cara memberi tahu siswa apa yang akan dilakukan coach. Apa kebutuhan yang akan diupayakan dipenuhi oleh coach, bagaimana cara coach memenuhi kebutuhan itu. Kemudian coach melakukan hal itu, kemudian menyampaikan alasan hal itu dilakukan dan apa yang harusnya dirasakan oleh siswa. Menjaga fokus akan meningkatkan peluang terciptanya rapport.
State Interruption – Bringing The Resources
Sering kali susah menembus tembok penghalang antara siswa dengan coach yang sebelumnya adalah orang asing. Tembok pertahanan yang diciptakan oleh siswa terjadi karena map of world (akan dibahas di seksi selanjutnya) yang dimiliki oleh siswa. Strategi yang cukup efektif adalah dengan menginterupsi state. Tindakan yang dilakukan oleh seseorang secara jangka panjang memang sangat tergantung pada mow yang dimilikinya. Namun, untuk kondisi sesaat, tindakan yang dilakukan seseorang sangat terpengaruh oleh state yang dimilikinya saat itu. Jika kita bisa mengubah atau mengarahkan state seseorang, kita bisa mengubah tindakan dan pikiran yang dimilikinya saat itu. Secara sederhana, teknik yang sama digunakan dalam ice breaking. Mengubah state tidak sembarangan mengubah state. Mengubah state di sini adalah mengambil resources dimana siswa dapat akrab dengan seseorang, dan membawa resources itu ke saat ini. Yang masuk ke dalam state adalah fokus, bahasa dan fisiologi. Yang harus dirubah adalah ketiganya. Caranya adalah dengan melakukan hal yang tidak terduga oleh siswa, kemudian mengarahkan fokusnya dan fisiologinya, kemudian mengarahkan kata-kata yang dikatakan oleh siswa.
We all have a place where we’re extremely resourceful. Interrupting state is taking resources from one are of their life and bringing them to an area where there aren’t enough resources.
Lesson plan is created from
“There are forces that constantly affecting our association. Invisible forces that controlling our triads state. One of the strongest force that drive us is our motive, why we do what we do.” Human Needs Psychology, Anthony Robbins.
Motive
Everything that a Human do, conscious unconsciously, is to fulfil their needs. There are 6 needs in every human. Every action and behaviour that we do is our effort to fulfil these needs. The difference between one man and another is how strong each needs affecting them and what they do to fulfil it.
Certainty. Firm conviction that he will gain pleasure and avoid pain.
Uncertainty, or variety. Getting Surprise, different stimulus, changes in their state, get a different feeling.
Significance. Feeling significant, special, unique, respected, different, important and needed.
Love and Connection. To love and to be love. To be part of a group or community, acceptance.
Growth. Feeling of getting better, became more.
Contribution. Sensation of helping, giving, helping, and useful.
Every one of us has 2 needs that affecting us the most. The 2 most important needs
Every time someone associates that a specific thought, feeling, or behaviour can fulfil at least 3 of his needs, then that specific thought, feeling or behaviour will become a habit and addiction.
*smoking*
*eat*
*sleep*
*swearing*
*exercising*
*studying*
Understanding how a learner behave, what is the forces that drive them to do what they do will greatly help us to stimulate the learner to create mental association that a specific skill or knowledge will help his needs fulfillment.
A Spanish philosopher, Ortega, said that human is born with natural disorientation with his world. It is human brain, Human ability to use his mind that made them surpassed all creature in the world and helped them reached abundant dreams.
Behind its superiority, human brain can only think about one thought at a time. There are no single brain that can think two different thought at the same time. Neurologically, it’s impossible for your brain to multitask. When you’re trying to do more than one thing at a time, you’re not really parallel processing – you’re rapidly switching your Attention from one thing to another. Every time you switch the focus of your Attention from one subject to another, you incur the Cognitive Switching Penalty. In order to take action, your brain has to ‘load’ the context of what you’re doing into working memory. If you constantly switch the focus of your Attention, you’re forcing your brain to spend time and effort thrashing, loading and reloading contexts over and over again.
If we could only think about one subject at a time, so our choice about what we are thinking about will largely determine our course of mind.
Thinking is a very complex process. If we simplify, our mind perform three important roles. Brain is responsible to observe stimulus from various senses. Then Brain will give association to the stimulus, interpret and predict the stimulus by comparing it with past memories. Third, brain is responsible to command an action as a response to a stimulus or as an experiment to examine the validity of the given association.
Apparently, our mind behaviour is a product of our decision.
Every time, in every situation, conscious or unconsciously, we are making 3 decisions;
What are we thinking about
What does it mean
What are we going to do
We are amongst the ocean of stimulus, there are so many different things that we can think about. Immediately after decided what to think about, brain will begin associating, processing the meaning of the situation. We will start comparing and differentiating this stimulus with the past memories, then give the stimulus a meaning. The meaning we gave to a stimulus is largely affecting what we are going to do next. Amazingly, these three decision is making a triad that affects each other. We cannot control what will happen in our life. But we can decide what we are focusing on, what does it mean, and what are we going to do next.
We were born without a single association to this world. We didn’t know that fire is hot or that falling is painful. There are no memory to help us associating the right meaning. We learnt that fire is hot by touching it, that falling is painful by experiencing it. The experience that we have determine our association. The association that we give to a stimulus will be greatly affected by the frequency, how often we experience it, uniqueness, how unique is the stimulus, and intensity, how strong the sensation given by the stimulus to our senses.
Frequently, we are giving false association to an experience. Challenge=Problem. Exam=Problem. Math=Problem. Books=Problem and so on. Will that false association lead us to a false action? Certainly.
How can we change and influence association?
“There are forces that constantly affecting our association. Invisible forces that controlling our triads state. One of the strongest force that drive us is our motive, why we do what we do.” Human Needs Psychology, Anthony Robbins.
Motive
Everything that a Human do, conscious unconsciously, is to fulfil their needs. There are 6 needs in every human. Every action and behaviour that we do is our effort to fulfil these needs. The difference between one man and another is how strong each needs affecting them and what they do to fulfil it.
Certainty. Firm conviction that he will gain pleasure and avoid pain.
Uncertainty, or variety. Getting Surprise, different stimulus, changes in their state, get a different feeling.
Significance. Feeling significant, special, unique, respected, different, important and needed.
Love and Connection. To love and to be love. To be part of a group or community, acceptance.
Growth. Feeling of getting better, became more.
Contribution. Sensation of helping, giving, helping, and useful.
Every one of us has 2 needs that affecting us the most. The 2 most important needs
Every time someone associates that a specific thought, feeling, or behaviour can fulfil at least 3 of his needs, then that specific thought, feeling or behaviour will become a habit and addiction.
*smoking*
*eat*
*sleep*
*swearing*
*exercising*
*studying*
Understanding how a learner behave, what is the forces that drive them to do what they do will greatly help us to stimulate the learner to create mental association that a specific skill or knowledge will help his needs fulfillment.
We have an old assumption that:
“If everyone is learning with the same method and treated equally, they will have fairly equal skills and knowledge”
Multiple Intelligence is a psychological theory that was proposed by Howard Gardner in his book Frames of Mind (1983).
Every single person has a unique intelligence profile. There are at least 8 element that composed an intelligence profile, and they are:
Linguistic. The intelligence in using and understanding language effectively. This intelligence is the property of someone to read, write, spell, and memorize words.
Logic. The intelligence to calculate, understanding pattern and using logic in problem solving.
Musical. The intelligence in using tone, memorizing melody, following rhythm, or simply enjoying music.
Kinesthetic. The intelligence in coordinating muscles and boy. This is the property of sportsman, dancer, actor, even sewer, surgeon, guitarist, etc.
Spatial. The intelligence in understanding space, shape and their co-relation. This is the property that needed to imagine a picture or creating 3-dimensional crafts.
Interpersonal. Intelligence in understanding others and working as a team. This is the property to understand and influence others, and potentially used to manipulate others.
Intrapersonal. The intelligence in understanding self and having self-control.
Naturalist. The intelligence in understanding nature, animals and plants. This is the property that we need to adapt and understand nature.
Each of us has intelligence profile that constructed from different elements. Each of us has a unique intelligence profile. This profile has a strong influence to our talents and aptitude. Education should be personalized. Not only to create a fun learning, but above all is to help learner to understand themselves.
