“____________ is the beginning of education.”

What do you think should be the beginning of education?

Think about it for a second. What should be taught before anything else?

While you’re contemplating that, I want to take us back to ancient Greece to learn from one of Socrates’ students, the great Antisthenes.

Antisthenes (445 – 365 BCE), was a Greek philosopher and a pupil of Socrates. He was a man known for his considerable powers of wit and it was said that his works filled ten volumes, but of these, only fragments remain. Later writers regarded him as the founder of Cynic philosophy.

Antisthenes, like his mentor Socrates, believed strongly in the power of words and considered a profound understanding of language as the foundation of knowledge.

“The investigation of the meaning of words is the beginning of education.”

– Antisthenes

That’s about as clear as one can state it, isn’t it? It still blows my mind to think that these powerful secrets to knowledge, wisdom and success have been around for THOUSANDS of years yet very few people understand them today.

And it’s not our fault, to be honest. We aren’t taught it in school. It’s never talked about in the news. Few books have been written on the subject. It’s almost a lost technology of the mind.

The heart of the matter is this: how are we to learn things when we can’t even understand the words with which the concepts are communicated?

The fact is you’re either putting the power to work for you or it’s working against you. That might sound a bit harsh but it’s the truth. The real mystery is how DO you wield this power effectively? Well, fortunately there is a very precise method of doing this. All the heavy lifting has been done for you. Everything has been worked out.

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