--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Duveyoung <no_re...@...> wrote: > > Anyone got the info about who would be doing all this teaching and for what > "salary?" I mean, really, how many re-certs are there out there, and what > percentage of them can be put to this task? > > I'm thinking they'll use mass initiation tactics (phone technique) and the > TMO will make the initiators pay for their own travel, food and motel for the > privilege of "getting all those pujas under one's belt." If they don't make > that offer, then I'll be surprised. Maybe they'll give a small per diem and > put out a distress call to the local meditating community to put up a teacher > when he's visiting that local. > > If they do it one student at a time, that's maybe 20 students per day tops > per teacher, but that's for only one teaching day...how can 20/day be > maintained if three days checking must be done by the same teacher? -- (who > must be there to at least be available to check mantras now and then on the > first day.) > > A teacher should be compensated, say, $3500 a month plus a per diem if he's > away from home. If a teacher teaches, say, 50 students a week, that's 600 x > 50 = 30,000 x 4 weeks = $120,000 bucks for Lynch to pay out and Girish gets > it all minus the teacher's salary. But, even though the salary cost is so > insignificant, I look to the teachers being screwed out of anything like a > windfall profit situation for them. They'll be coming home in the same rust > buckets they're driving today. > > Does Lynch get it that the $600 will be mostly going directly to Girish? > > Edg > >
Quality instruction is the key to a sustainable demand for TM. The earliest DLF-sponsored whole-school TM instruction was apparently superb: it included first instructing willing administrators and teachers, followed by the remaining faculty and staff, well prior to instructing the students. Apparently lots of TM-teacher on-site follow-up to all. David Lynch negotiated heavily to reduce the fee to $600 per student for whole-school TM instruction. I believe that fee amount is necessary to sustain quality instruction. My heavy woe befall anyone who advocates mass-initiation "bum's rush" treatment shortcuts to meet a surge in demand. > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <vajradhatu@> wrote: > > > > > > On Apr 6, 2009, at 2:45 PM, TurquoiseB wrote: > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 <no_reply@> > > > wrote: > > >> > > >> Dream on brother. > > >> > > >> But thanks for posting those links to the youtube clips > > >> from the David Lynch Foundation Conscert for teaching > > >> 1 million children Transcendental Meditation. > > > > > > Speaking of "dream on," Nabby, you DO realize > > > that as well-intentioned as this fund-raising > > > concert was, it only raised enough money to > > > teach 5,000 kids to meditate, right? > > > > > > $3,000,000 / $600 = 5,000 > > > > > > Wouldn't it be a magnanimous gesture for the > > > TM organization, if it believes so strongly > > > in this project and its stated goal, to lower > > > the price to what other introductory meditation > > > courses cost in the United States? > > > > > > $3,000,000 / $60 = 50,000 > > > > > > OR if they're REALLY interested in getting a million kids cogitating > > mantras: > > > > $3,000,000 / $3 = 1,000,000 > > > > Problem solved! > > >
