Landmark Education on Communication
Everyone at some point has experienced an impasse in communication; those frustrating occasions when it all breaks down and people want to get up and walk out. Just look at a sample of recent headlines: “Peace Talks Breakdown” or “Labor Negotiations at a Stalemate” or “Negotiations Fail to Result in an Accord”. When the stakes are high and people are afraid they have something to loose communication becomes strained and people stop listening to one another. Usually this is while claiming that the people on the other side of the table are actually the ones who are not doing the listening. We get so concerned and fearful about getting other people to hear what we have to say, we become unwilling to hear what they have to say.
Indeed, listening seems sometimes as if it is a rare happening among human beings. We can’t really listen to another person speaking if we’re preoccupied, or if we’re trying to decide what we’re going to say when the other stops talking, or if we’re debating about whether what is being spoken is true or relevant or agreeable. Listening, in other words, is being accessible and open to what is being said.
At Landmark Education we contend that listening has an amazing power. It gives life to what is being spoken. You might even say it is with the listener that both the speaker and what is spoken exist and come alive. Think of how inspired and enlivened the elderly can become when you sit down and have an extended conversation with them. Think about what happens when someone is really listening to you. Ever notice that you become funnier and more playful when someone laughs at your jokes? What about when a child recognizes that adults are actually listening to them? Their whole demeanor shifts. In the programs of Landmark Education, you find yourself with a new ability to listen to others. You find yourself inspired by the people you have in your life. When you truly listen to people you discover the best of what they have to offer.
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Speaking, meanwhile, can be something more than talking, more than the exchange of symbols or information, more than saying what you really think. In speaking we can share ourselves; we can evoke experience in others. Speaking is where our ideas become clear and possible. It is where others are expanded by our time spent with them. It allows for the futures we create. Speaking lives in poetry, in the appreciation of another, in idle conversations that pass the time, in great theories and books that give rise to wonder and thought.
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Speaking allows for “who” and “how” we “are” in the world. It is what gives voice to all that is possible in being human. In our ability to speak and share we have the ability to shape the world we live in.
In the courses of Landmark Education you find that true communication is creation. It has the power to shape, determine, and alter the course and quality of our lives. It moves people. It generates experience in others. It not only delivers information to others, it actually transforms their ability to hear. True communication transforms both the speaker and listener.
The Landmark Forum suggests that what it is to be human has its own domain and that domain is one of language—of communication, of conversation. Through communication —the realm of language, of conversation—each of us has complete access to ourselves, to others, to the very essence and possibility of what it means to be human.
This is the essence of what Landmark Education is about and what The Landmark Forum provides.
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Question by hplss.rmntc: How is education in the United States different from education in other countries?
How is education in the United States different from education in other countries? Which country’s education system do you like best?
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Answer by Brian K
Here, we make a futile and stupid attempt to educate everybody, whether they want an education or not. In other countries, they value education more, because if you don’t pursue it, they stop educating you and you have to take a menial job and suffer. Parents don’t want that for their children and they push them. Here, when someone doesn’t want an education, we force them to stay in school with compulsory education and we give them the “No Child Left Behind” treatment. We keep their sorry butt in school and let them drag down the whole educational system. The parents don’t have to take the responsibility to make their kid rise to challenges. As a result, our school systems and teachers are swamped with trying to produce even mediocre results from a population that has no reason to care or to try. Pick a developed country in the world, and its educational system will be better than ours, because here our lawyers have determined that we have to try to save people from themselves.
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Communication Theories
Communication Theories
By communication theory we mean such a person in which communication is considered one way or two ways or continuous process. The message reaches the receiver through various ways to the receiver. Communication is such a subject in which changes occur daily. The subject matter, medium, process of communication developed according to the needs and expansion of modern means of communication and business activities. The communication process depends upon same basic and principal theories. The major principal theories are as follows:-
Information Theory
This theory of communication was produced by Shanan in 1750 and after him Miller and Fick developed upon it. This theory is also called bull’s eye theory or shanan theory. With the increasing use of electronic medium of transmission this theory got propounded.
The information theory of communication has the under mentioned characteristics:-
The process of communication is linear. The basis of this system depends upon the work result. Communication is a one way activity. Under communication message are given in the form of sign or inward form. Communication can be sent by mechanical devices like computer, cyber world etc.
In this information theory communication the role of the message sender is more important, because in this theory communication has been taken as a one way theory. Therefore the sender should give a clear and correct message so that the receiver can understand correct meaning. In this theory it is believed that both the sender and receiver can understand the signs and languages of the message.
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Interaction theory of Communication
This theory of communication is also called round or circular theory. According to this theory in the process of communication there is a continuous exchange of information, ideas, feelings, and messages between the sender and receiver. In this theory the process of feedback got included under communication.
Constituents of Interaction Theory
Under the interaction theory of work of communication goes on in an organized process whose parts of constituents are as follows:-
Message, the birth of an idea or information. The giver of the message or sender. Underlying the feeling of the message. Way of Communication. Means or medium of communication. Receiver of the message. Understanding the meaning of the message by the receiver considering over the message or implementation. Feed back.
This theory of communication is a complete theory. In it both the sender and the receiver remain alert. Under it communication is taken to be two way process. The receiver of the message on understanding its meaning gives his feedback upon it.
In the modern age the importance of this theory is steadily increasing in the field of management, because one can receive the reaction on the message sent, and if it remains any doubt or discrepancy it can be removed.
Transaction Theory of Communication
This theory of communication is based on the constant exchange of information or give and take process. According to this theory communication is a continuously on-going process. In it the sender and receiver both are participants in a common form and mutually exchange information. The constituents of this theory are as follows:-
Message Sender Underlying the meaning of message. Way Medium Receiver Understanding the underlying meaning. Change in behavior. Feed Back
The characteristics of this theory of communication are:-
1) Communication keeps on going continuously between sender and receiver.
2) Both the parties in communication are affected by cause and result,
3) Every action in communication generates a reaction.
4) Communication uses a bridge of message to bring it to a logical conclusion.
In this way different theories of communication are prevalent. In these the interaction theory of communication is more in use because in it communication is taken to be a two way process.
Question by Kevin I: What theories can economics draw upon to evaluate Health care reforms?
Hi, I am a stduent studying Health Economics.
I am just wondering what kind of economic theories we can use when evaluating the health care reform.
Please let me know if you have any idea and thanks for reading!
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Answer by pjmo_99
The two main schools of thought revolve around increased competition utilizing the power of markets to lower costs while maintaining quality or increasing government control to dictate prices.
The problem with using markets exclusively is that it requires the end user to be directly involved in purchasing care. Minimum levels of sophistication regarding how much treatments, procedures, and medicine should cost fall to the consumer of the care. The cost of care should come down as the consumer makes conscious decisions based on their symptoms on whether or not to see a physician and how much they should pay that physician for the care they will need.
Government mandated pricing will lower the price paid for care by setting up a single payer for all medical treatment within the country. However, this has proven to force providers to ration care because they will only be compensated by the government at a level that is less than optimal for handling the demand for services. While everyone in the country will have “insurance”, many will go without actual care.
The Cato Institute has plenty of in depth resources.
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