Archery is essential; it cannot exist without a bow and arrow.
In the analogy of archer, bow, and arrows, the most crucial element is the archer. In education, the archer is humanity, acting with our most unique traits as a species. In our educational experiment, we will call this becoming one with them. The bow is strength, and our arrows are learning the limits and education appropriate for the target. In other words, we will discuss being human, power, elevation, and the future.
The best archer is one who becomes one with their bow and target.
No one tries to do what is dictated to them. So many things are said and contradictory that it would be foolish to follow them all. Even we don’t want everything we say to be done because sometimes we may behave unfairly and irrationally. Moreover, why should the other party believe us rather than someone else? There might be a reason to believe, and that is being there with them at that moment. We call this “becoming one” with them. If we see the other person not as the object of education but as the subject and are with them, achieving the desired behavior change is only a matter of time.
Education is transformation in groups.
When a father gives a command to a baby, the baby does not understand but imitates the father. When a child gives a command to a dog, the dog does not listen but follows the child. The state enacts laws for the citizens, but what becomes customary is what the citizens practice. The teacher makes the students memorize the information in the book, but the real lesson is how outdated the education is. Not what we say, but what we do, lives on. Education is not unilateral and linear; it is cyclical and human. In other words, what we feel at that moment and the group we transform with is the outcome of education. Even the most necessary propositional knowledge is forgotten, but the feeling of elevation or degradation experienced at that moment is unforgettable. These feelings are the legacy left to individuals, not propositions.
Means and ends become one
If we make the people in the environment an end, not a means, if we are present as humans, as ourselves, the most effective education will develop naturally. After that moment, the subject of the lesson is conversation. Tasks that are torture will be performed with pleasure. A long walk that is not necessary is not appealing, but if we walk with our loved ones, it can be the most valuable time of the day. Lifting weights may not be enjoyable, but if the joy of lifting our child accompanies it, it becomes priceless. Sweating from morning to night, working intensely at a desk, may seem terrible, but if we are trying to achieve a high score in a game we love, we would do it willingly for a lifetime. We spend the same energy and time and use the same cognitive capacities on a game, but we avoid a lesson. Why?
