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Valery Kourinsky
Theme 1 : The Essence of Integrative Method
I. Traditional methods are irrelevant to the contemporary level of sciences.
II. World outlook and intellectual development, feedback (the second psychological heart).
III. "Movement as a morphological organ" (B. Spinoza).
1. Comprehension of a movement as an organ.
2. Movement and image.
3. Motorics and remembering.
IV. Remembering, memory as the function of the whole organism (memory has no its own organ).V. Guidelines, methods of evaluating and analyzing the guidelines suggested.
VI. Rationality and reflectiveness, abstractedness and concrete associating. Left & right brain setting.
VII. What is autodidactics? (There is no theory of autodidactics at present).
1. Education as a continuum (education may be only endless).
2. Curiosity is immanent to all living beings.
3. Ethics and intellect (intelligence - mind - wisdom).
4. Resistance to conformism and vigor for self-realization (interpretation of definitions).
5. Disuse of honesty as disuse of power sources.
6. Vanity and ambitiousness.
VIII. Actualized interest made instrumental is the footing for the integrative method in autodidactics.
1. The definition of interest as a self-appearing stream of associations.
2. Objectively interesting is not existent.
3. Being interesting and necessary.
4. Making necessary as a culturological process.
5. Remembering and "need".IX. The rules of autodidactics.
1. Don't memorize head-on.
2. Do what you are really interested in.
3. Try to do physical work instead of mental one.
4. That one does well, who looks up in the dictionary 1000 times a day.
5. Don't learn but try to take in to your heart's content.
6. Don't practice instantly complete full assimilation and perfect knowledge.
7. Attempt introspection.
8. Non-assimilation of the previous for passing over to the following; sufficiency of understanding.
X. The law of instant implementation of knowledge gained.
XI. Reference books: direct and indirect sources.
XII. Effective arrangement of continual studies (making breaks when the interest is peak; mantra
method of falling asleep).
XIII. Some linguistic problems in autodidactics.
1. Instrumental knowledge and embroadening of outlook.
2. Practicing the speech apparatus movements when learning languages.
3. The initial stage of speech production.
XIV. The autodidact's strategy and tactics.
1. Strategic super-goals shall be set very high; tactical goals shall be put very low.
2. Attitudes to handbooks and dictionaries (circles): perception and further clarification.
3. Tactics of dealing with various handbooks; cultivation of the actualized interest.
4. Fatigue and associative thinking.
5. Guided interest and amount of information (books; people).
XV. Philosophic approach to autodidactics.
XVI. Epicure. "The last day status."
1. The peak human joys.
2. Realization of natural inclinations and ideas.
3. Realization of Self and the sin of underdevelopment.
Regards,
Valery Kourinsky
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