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=Training and Classes Incompetent= (By Sam)(ael) (Return to Teachings)

Now, I have been around Jedi orders for several years. I teach a church class, and I have done Padawanships and many mentoring sessions. Over the time and experiences I have had doing these things I start to wonder about the concepts of __//Training//__ and of taking __//Classes//__ compared to getting right into the field.

Honestly I think that **Training and classes are incompetent**.

There is only so much you can prepare yourself for and that is the whole idea of training or taking a class. To prepare for the real experience.

Somewhere in the sweep and rush of Society people forgot that the class was the preperation and not the point.

A class about running a ship can be great. By all means learn the basics so you will be more prepared when the ship is in your hands, but a harverd degree in 'running ships' will not make you more skilled that the captain who ran it for one year.

I think the same thing applies for Jedi. We should be spending our best efforts on applying what we pick up to the REAL experience. Helping people, solving problems, teaching, protecting, and doing the will of the force.

I argue that the piles of training and the hapless 'I wish' of teachers who even try to get their students to apply is where we lose students and where orders run aground. With this misunderstanding between training and application **we face the degredation of the Jedi community as a whole**.


 * An order that wants to survive must find a way to push the young, and guide the determined**, or only those who are already conceptually Jedi will survive and thrive.

Survival calls for action.