Dr Loga's Theory Of Education

DR LOGA'S THEORY OF EDUCATION

I want to look at child development and a Theory of Education from the perspectives of Agamic Psychology using for this purpose the cryptic observations I made a few years ago in the book 'ArutkuRaL'.

The theory is similar to that of Piaget but also goes further in terms of the theory of MIND of Meykandar that I rediscovered thorough the use of Access Testing.

Piaget interacted with children, recorded accurately the protocols, the verbalisations of the children and analysed these protocols and proposed stable mental structures that constitute STAGES of development: sensory motor, pre-operational, concrete operational and finally Formal operational. He studied mainly a small number of Genevan children and on that basis proposed the following ages: 0 to 3 for the first, 3 to 6 for second, 6 to 12 or so for the third and 12 and above for the final.

Subsequent research world wide confirmed not only these stages but also their sequential order though the ages of onset for these stages were found to vary considerably. For example the Australian aboriginal children became concrete operational only at the age of 18 or thereabouts. In my own studies among Malaysian children I found almost 50% of children at the ages of 17 or thereabouts still not sufficiently Formal Operational and so forth.

But there are problems in this widely acknowledged theory of child development: a confusion with respect to the concept of mind implicit in it.

The stages are said to be styles of operations of a kind and Piaget's theoretical reflections went on further along these assumptions.

It is here that Meykandar provides the Deeper Understanding that is required of the human mind in order to have a better understanding of dynamics of child development. For he shows clearly that there is this Psyche as an independent reality inhabiting the body and which uses the various mental structures, the antakranas , for understanding the world.

The distinct stages of development correlate with the different mental mechanisms the child uses to process the information impinging its body from within and without.

The idea of a psychical reality distinct from the body and which uses the different cognitive facilities available in it, is highly repugnant to the Western Psychologists for reasons that are more ideological than scientific.

The mental structures Meykandar mentions are: Manam, Buddhi, Ahangkaaram and Siththam and Meykandar provides arguments much deeper than Descartes to show the independent reality of the psyche.

The psyche or the anma being engulfed in Darkness , a primordial condition of itself, uses these mental structures to destroy this inner Darkness of Ignorance.

Loganathan Krishnan @ Ullaganar

( This new theory of education, based on Meykandar, was developed by Dr Loga, hence the name )