--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Oh yes, in fact. As I pointed out to Barty, you > need to keep in mind that there aren't a whole lot > of such cushy jobs, and many people aren't qualified > for the ones there are. If you insist spiritual > teachers must teach for free by getting a high-paying > job that leaves them lots of free time, you're > restricting the pool of teachers to folks who are > highly educated and trained to start with, which in > effect means people from relatively well-to-do > backgrounds for the most part.
"Barty" here. I love it when Judy gets so mad she can't type. :-) Just to provide a counterpart to what she so mistakenly says above, here's what the Rama guy (even with his many faults) did to try to help his students get careers that would allow them the money and freedom to pursue their spiritual lives. Many of his students, when he first met them, were *not* well educated. Some, like my friend in Chicago, had barely finished high school. Many didn't have established careers. So Rama advised them to consider computere programming as a career path, calling it a 2-3 year path to 100K a year. And, interestingly, that's how it turned out for hundreds of his students. 6 months in a computer school, paid for with student loans, followed by a couple of years of programming work to get one's chops down. The two years on the job were supplemented by classes that Rama provided at night in relational database, AI, different languages and operating systems, and the other things a person would have to know to go into consulting. Most did. My friend that I mentioned above who barely finished high school was making 100K two yeare after entering computer school. This is not a career path (or a spiritual path, for that matter) for everyone, but I firmly believe that it can be *done* by everyone. I've seen it done by hundreds. Judy's idea that this approach to teaching would restrict the pool of teachers to the well-educated is sheer educational bias on her part. T'ain't true. It ain't the "well-educated" who get the well- paying jobs, it's the people who are *motivated* who get the well-paying jobs.
