Drawing on the "new" [c. 2000]

Learning how to learn can be reinforced in many ways.  But learning without play or fun is difficult---grim and boring.  Classical Pedagogy with its “serious” student-teacher-admin-istrative rituals may be the major failing of our educational system.  Unorthodox ways currently used in colleges to augment persuasion and articulation ability of business school students is to use “stand-up” comedy (University of Chicago), song- writing, storytelling and bare improvisation (Vanderbilt University-Owens Management); and for a Shakespearean motivational spin, relative to other management skills at the corporate executive level (Northrup-Grumman). Another novel learning way is by continual repetition through audio-visual media, where information is presented in a risk-/stress-free environment.    Suggestion, Auto-suggestion. and Suggestology have been used for years in Europe; for example, at Moscow University three years of studying French are compressed into less than one year by total immersion of students into a close network of students-parents-teachers-environment-activities---where, for example, only French is spoken.  Other approaches are to have abstract ideas in the sciences translated into physical learning devices such as toys or robots: repetition with/without background music—operas or Mozart --, using the olfactory stimulation of aromatherapy, “pigging out” on pizzas before, or during, the learning session, or encouraging the ingestion of chocolate “stuff” to enhance retention.

Quantum Education is the natural way to learn---motivating and exciting people to take responsibility for their own education.. The Montessori Model represents the closest example of Quantum Education, where the environment is prepared with didactic materials for the children to absorb at their own pace. Where children learn without formal pedagogical machinations, without consciously learning how to learn---by doing. Like Quantum Logic or Quantum Physics or Quantum Games, quantum thinking is an insightful, body/mind approach, attempting to connect our classical worldwhere objects or things have definite identitieswith our new quantum worldwhere things take on multiple realities simultaneously. The concept of mind, limiting our perceptual abilities is no longer confined to the brain or even the body---all organs are, in some ways, thinking organs, permitting restructuring of our cognitive educational commitment toward infinite choice and possibility. Quantum Education has been defined by the Canadian Quantum 2000 Group as the need for a quantum shift in what students are expected to learn in Alberta public schools starting Y2000.

A Learning Community (CA) for its acronym in Spanish, is an organized human community that builds and engages in its own educational and cultural project to educate itself, its children, its youth and its adults, within the framework of an endogenous, cooperative and supportive effort, based on a diagnosis not only of their hortcomings but, above all, of their strengths to overcome such weaknesses (Elboj et al., 2006). The only way to ensuring education for all and quality lifelong learning is to make education a necessity and a task for all, developing and synchronizing the resources and efforts of the local community in order to ensure more sustainable conditions. We are then, confronted with one of the most difficult and complex contemporary challenges: to think twice and to rebuild the bonds that the human develops, through society, in conjunction with the environment.