How to Educate All for Excellence: Excellent Learners’ 7 Deepest Educational Needs

By Dr. Malick Kouyate

Inspiring and uplifting, Educating All for Excellence is a new and a better way of understanding education as the following:
*A socializing process
*An awakening process
*A liberating process
Do you truly want all the adolescents and young adults in your community and schools to learn more actively, more meaningfully, and more mindfully? If yes is your answer to this question, then Educating All for Excellence is for you.
Educating All for Excellence is especially designed to help adolescents and young adults to strive to do the following:
*Be more open and receptive to their two learning worlds
*Strive for the knowledge and skills congruent to their innate talent
*Awaken the positive side of the sleeping giant within everyone
*Realign their learning to their calling
*Identify what they want the most out of their life
*Be focus on what they are the most good at
*Match what they have to do to what they are called to do
*Sing out loud their lifelong most favorite love song for the whole world to hear
*Be the blessings to one another they are meant to be
*Be more peaceful culture consumers
*Be more mindful culture producers

• Language: English
• Publisher: Trafford Publishing
• Release date: Jun 5, 2013
• ISBN: 9781466989818

Dr. Malick Kouyate

Dr. Malick Kouyate is an educational scholar, a philosopher, and a poet. He believes that there is a place deep within and all around us all as a whole where we each and all are meant to meet and meltdown and be One with one another without losing our Personal Identity. That place is the very place of true Love and long-lasting Peace, and Intimacy with each other in marriage.

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CONTENTS

Acknowledgements

Dedication

Introduction

Chapter 1  My 5 Life Saving Signals On The Road To Excellence

Chapter 2  The Promise Of Educating All For Excellence

PART 1 ENJOY YOUR LIFE VERY ESSENCE

Chapter 3  The Promise Of Your Higher Self

Chapter 4  1 Major Barrier To Your Higher Self

Chapter 5  2 Steps To The Best In Your First Deepest Educational Need

PART 2 DISCOVER YOUR LIFE GREATEST DISCOVERY

Chapter 6  The Promise Of Your Life Greatest Discovery

Chapter 7  3 Major Barriers To The True You

Chapter 8  3 Steps To The Best In Your Second Deepest Educatinal Need

PART 3 TAP INTO THE MAGIC OF CONGRUENCY

Chapter 9  The Promise Of Your Two-Way Learning Road

Chapter 10  3 Stumbling Blocks On Your Two-Way Learning Road

Chapter 11  3 Steps To The Best In Your Third Deepest Educational Need

PART 4 AWAKEN THE POSITIVE SIDE OF THE SLEEPING GIANT IN YOU

Chapter 12  The Promise Of Your Inner Calling

Chapter 13  3 Major Barriers To The Sleeping Giant In You

Chapter 14  3 Steps To The Best In Your Fourth Deepest Educational Need

PART 5 LOVE TRULY TO LIVE FULLY ALIVE

Chapter 15  The Promise Of True Love

Chapter 16  3 Major Barriers To The True Meaning Of Your Life

Chapter 17  3 Steps To The Best In Your Fifth Deepest Educational Need

PART 6 SHARE CONSTRUCTIVELY YOUR LIFELONG MOST FAVORITE LOVE SONG

Chapter 18  The Promise Of Your Lifelong Most Favorite Love Song

Chapter 19  2 Major Barriers To Your Lifelong Most Favorite Love Song

Chapter 20  2 Steps To The Best In Your Sixth Deepest Educational Need

PART 7 BE A MINDFUL CULTURE PRODUCER

Chapter 21  The Promise Of Mindful Culture Production

Chapter 22  2 Major Barriers To Mindful Culture Production

Chapter 23  3 Steps To The Best In Your Seventh Deepest Educational Need

Conclusion

References

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

In writing this book, I owe so much to so many. I am grateful and thankful to all. My special thanks go to:

*   my parents who told me that the great work is the work of a great man in a great child. A great man has will, skill and wisdom. A great child has compassion, passion and the sky as the only limit;

*   my wife who told me that a well understood marriage is a school of duties where two are striving to be one without losing their self-identity;

*   my children whose love strikes so melodiously the subtlest strings of my inner being;

*   my best friends who told me that a friend must be held with both hands;

*   my graduate students, at Duquesne University, whose personal stories taught me, more than anything else, the teaching-learning skills and educational strategies adolescents and young adults need to be the captains of their own destiny they are meant to be;

*   the world great religious and spiritual traditions and collective wisdom that convinced me that we all are created at God’s image and likeness and that God is all loving, all knowing and all powerful.

DEDICATION

This book is dedicated to you who believe that you:

*   are unique and wonderfully made

*   are made to make a difference

*   have a priceless inner treasure that is in no other

*   have a lifelong most favorite love song that has never been sung before

*   are born to be excellent

*   are meant to be the captain of your own destiny

*   are a blessing to everybody starting by the innocent child in you.

We all know that what will transform education is not another theory, another book, or another formula but educators who are willing to seek a transformed way of being in the world . . . what we seek is a way of working illumined with spirit and infused with soul . . .

(Parker J. Palmer, Ph.D.)

TREASURE YOUR INNER TREASURE

Of all the fields of studies

Of all life unsolved mysteries

None offers as many opportunities

As the study of your inner treasure.

Of all the fields of studies

Of all life unsolved mysteries

None is as neglected as the study of your inner treasure.

Cast out sporadically

Your net inwardly

Treasure your priceless inner treasure

Your priceless inner treasure is in no other.

Sing out loud your lifelong most favorite love song

Your lifelong most favorite love song has never been sung before

Your lifelong most favorite love song will never be sung after you

You are unique

You are wonderfully made

You are made to make the whole world a better place to be.

Fight your life most demanding war

Win your life most rewarding war

Your life most rewarding war

Is the war between you and the true you.

Be true to the true you

The true you is your only way to the Way,

Way never meant to be that far away.

INTRODUCTION

Educating all for excellence is possible. Educating all for excellence is easy. All for excellence in education is the rock solid founding block of our emotional, mental, social, professional and spiritual well being. All for excellence in education is the source, the substance and the essence of our shared values, solid world views and consistent ways of life. Educating all for excellence is, at the same time, a/an:

*   socializing process

*   awakening process

*   liberating process

All for excellence in education is the only way to the king in every kid and to the leader in every follower.

EXCELLENT LEARNERS’ 7 DEEPEST

EDUCATIONAL NEEDS

As an excellent learner, you have the seven following deep educational needs.

*   you have a deep educational need for in-depth social integration. The satisfaction of this need is what you need to be open and receptive to your external learning world.

*   you have a deep educational need for self-navigation. The satisfaction of this need is what you need to be open and receptive to your internal learning world.

*   you have a deep educational need for the magic of congruency between your two learning worlds. The satisfaction of this need is what you need to learn more actively and more meaningfully.

*   you have a deep educational need for the true meaning of your life. The satisfaction of this need is what you need to learn more mindfully.

*   you have a deep educational need for the positive side of the sleeping giant in you. The satisfaction of this need is what you need to re-align your learning to your calling.

*   you have a deep educational need for the lifelong most favorite love song in you that has never been sung before. The satisfaction of this need is what you need to achieve extraordinary success later in your chosen profession.

*   you have a deep educational need for mindful culture production. The satisfaction of this need is what you need to leave the long lasting legacy you are meant to leave to mankind history.

EDUCATING ALL FOR EXCELEENCE 7 LIFE

CHANGING BENEFITS

All for excellence in education is what we all need if we are to:

*   celebrate authority incarnation

*   improve family stability and viability

*   promote social harmony in our communities

*   celebrate the king in every kid

*   help learners re-align their learning to their calling

*   celebrate the leader in every follower

*   help followers re-align what we have to do to what they love to do

EDUCATION COULD BE THE MISSING LINK TO

ALL FOR EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION

Education could be one of the missing links to all for excellence in education. Imagine sailing from your Island of pain to your Island of pleasure in your still old and shaky ship during a dark and stormy night. Your ship is more likely to sink. You could die.

We cannot educate all for excellence while the teaching-learning process is still a one size fits it all process. Imagine walking bare foot on a green grass filled with hidden sticks and thorns. You can be hurt easily. You can be hurt badly. You can be hurt repeatedly.

My father used to tell me that even when my strongest enemy is already all over me, I may still have some time to fight back before the war is over. But when my even weakest enemy reaches my heart, I must stop the fight. I have lost both the battle and the war.

Knowledge reproduction is the main aim of the one size fits it all learning box. New knowledge production is the main aim of all for excellence. The traditional learning box does not encourage learners to think for themselves. All for excellence encourages learners to think for themselves. That makes all the difference.

TO EDUCATE FOR EXCELLENCE IS TO TOUCH DEEPLY

A long time ago, I heard that parenting, teaching and being a president are three things anyone with their rational mind should avoid at any cost. Fortunately, our rational mind, compared to our subconscious/super-conscious mind, is like a single drop of sweet water into a vast ocean.

Parenting and teaching are both demanding and rewarding. It is relatively easy to be a parent. It is not that easy to be a good parent. It is relatively easy to be a teacher. It is not that easy to be a good teacher.

In teaching for excellence, the mastery of the subject matter alone does not matter that much. In teaching for excellence, what does matter the most is the teacher’s willingness and ability to help you:

*   strive for the knowledge and skills congruent to your innate talent

*   re-align your learning to your calling

*   learn more actively, more meaningfully, more mindfully

*   become the captain of your own destiny you are meant to be

The major function of your knowledge is to help you awaken the sleeping giant in you.

WHO SHOULD READ THIS BOOK?

This book is written for adolescents and young adults who have a burning desire to:

*   re-align their learning to their calling

*   re-align their dream job to their life dream

*   match what they have to do to what they love to do

*   strive for a living conducive to meaning

Excellence in education = the need for belonging + the need for independence

EIE=NFB+NFI

Excellence in school = knowledge congruent to the calling + skills congruent to the calling.

EIS=KCC+SCC

This book is also written for parents, teachers, preachers, school administrators, community leaders, mentors, coaches, bosses, law enforcement officers… who strongly believe that there is a king in every kid and a leader in every follower.

Excellence in the workplace = workplace with authority incarnation + the leader in every follower.

EIW=WAI+LIF

World’s revealed prophets, inspired poets, great religious scholars and spiritual gurus… have long been asking us the following question. What do you have when you gain the whole world but lose your own soul? They have answered the same question when they tell us that, "He who steals my purse takes only trash but he who steals my name takes it all."

Your name is stolen anytime anywhere you are not true to the true you.

ALL FOR EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION IS EASIER THAN YOU CAN IMAGINE

Do you want all the adolescents and young adults in your community and schools learn how to:

*   be more open and more receptive to their two learning worlds?

*   strive for the very knowledge and skills congruent to their innate talent?

*   awaken the positive side of the sleeping giant within?

*   re-align their learning to their calling?

*   achieve high academic achievements

*   match what they have to do to what they love to do

*   be more peaceful culture consumers?

*   be more mindful culture producers?

If yes is your answer to any of these questions, I can help you. My name is Dr. Malick Kouyate. I have the teaching-learning skills and educational strategies your adolescents and young adults need to:

*   treasure their priceless inner treasure

*   sing out loud their lifelong most favorite love song for the whole world to hear

*   be blessings to almost everybody starting by the very innocent child within.

CHAPTER 1

MY 5 LIFE SAVING SIGNALS ON

THE ROAD TO EXCELLENCE

TO EDUCATE ME FOR EXCELLENCE

To educate me for excellence

Is to help me:

See in me more than eye can see;

Be in touch with the larger than life in me;

Strive for the knowledge and skills

Congruent to my innate talent;

Awaken the positive side of the sleeping giant in me;

Lean on, learn from, build upon

The magic of congruency

Between my learning and my calling;

Love those who love me;

Love even those who hate me;

Be a peaceful culture consumer;

Be a mindful culture producer.

MY ROCKY ROAD TO EXCELLENCE IN EUCATION

My road to excellence in education has not been a rosy road. My road to excellence in education has rather been a rocky road. My life five saving signals on the rocky road to excellence are:

*   the unconditional love from my parents

*   mindfulness as a way of life

*   my two-way learning road

*   the awakening of the positive side of the sleeping in me

*   the magic of congruency between my learning and my calling

In this chapter, I would like to talk only about the role and importance of unconditional love. The unconditional love from my parents has been my best way to:

*   the best there is in my external learning world

*   the best there is in my internal learning world

*   the best there is between my two learning worlds

*   the beauty, the bounty, the harmony and the melody of the world around me

*   the formless form of the Absolute in form within me and all around me

I WAS TRAPPED IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE

I did not know which way to go. On the one hand, my parents told me that love, compassion, honesty, integrity, humility… are values I should live by. On the other hand, once I left my parents, my daily life was telling me, Wait a minute. Who you know is more important than what you know. What you have is more important than who you are. Power position, material possession, name, fame… is what makes or breaks people. Why then bother about your shared values?

I love my parents. I trust my parents. I owe them so much. I believe, almost religiously, in all what they told me. To defy or deny what they told me was to defy or deny a vital part of me. That was impossible. But to ignore what was going on all around me was to be unrealistic too.

What should I do? Which way should I go? I had no idea. I was lost in the midst of the wilderness. The values I have been told to live by did not allow me to go blindly with any flow or to go totally against any flow. I was in limbo.

The monotony of my day-to-day life was unbearable. My mind was closed off. My heart was broken. My feelings were frozen. My inner emptiness was a slow and silent and fatal hidden killer. To survive, I needed some life saving signals.

My classmates were going to school for passing grades. I was going to school for guiding stars. I needed some new and better ways of seeing the world. I needed some new and better ways of being in the world. My personal school became, The School Without Walls. Nature became my greatest book. I could learn from anyone, starting by the innocent child in me. I could learn from anything including from adversity. To survive, I had to:

*   open up my closed off mind

*   mend my broken heart

*   melt down my frozen feelings

But I did not know how. My deep need for a more meaningful life brought me closer to some of the world’s great religious and spiritual traditions and collective wisdom. My deep need for meaning brought me to the writing of some of the world most famous thinkers. Their inspiring thoughts brought me back to what my parents have already taught me. For instance, I was happy when I read poet Robert Frost’s three following verses.

"Two roads diverged in a wood and I—

"I took the one less traveled by

And that has made all the difference.

Like Frost, I was in a crossroad. Contrary to Frost, I did not know which way to go. I did not know how to take the road the less traveled by. Frost’s words were more than simple words for me. Frost’s words reminded me what my parents have told me, If the whole world stands on this side, stand still on the other side as long you know that you are right from the bottom of your own heart. Frost’s words became some of the guiding stars I was looking for.

I started stepping slowly outside the traditional learning box. I started building my own two-way learning road between the two learning worlds. I started paying more attention to the congruency between what the outside world was telling me and what my inner world longs to hear about.

MY FIRST AND BEST TEACHERS

My parents have been my first teachers. My parents are among my best teachers. They opened up my eyes. They sharpened my spirit. They widened my horizons. Like all loving parents, my parents taught me how to share shared values, adopt solid world views and follow consistent ways of life.

For instance, my parents used to tell me that:

*   God, because of His omnipotence, and a baby, because of her innocence, deal both directly with the heart. To make so deep a thought more intelligible to my then still budding spirit, my parents would add that, If you smile at a baby who refuses to smile back, yours is not from the heart.

*   A child is a love letter written by a whole family at the service of the whole community. Therefore, my mom would clarify, "Any step you take or move you make or action you undertake, you must do so with