Reviews for Narcotics Education Specialist

The average rating for Narcotics Education Specialist based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2019-02-13 00:00:00 Rob Pienta This book is more than 100 years old. Much of the neurological development has done much to clarify and modify some segment, particularly given how much more empirical science has done to elucidate the process of memory-forming and sensory experiences. But this book has the merit of being very elegantly written, quoting literatures and poetry of bygone era which gives much readerly pleasure. I particularly like some of his reference to poetry in forming mental images as a way to educate the creative side of mind. As modern world proffered a prevailing life of media saturation based on movies and internet, it is perhaps much harder to find a systematic tool to train our mind using poetry and literature. While we have a larger stock of visual memory and language references, we may suffer the fate of being a second-handed storage place for ready-made ideas. With the ever unrelenting push for "school performance" through standardized tests and multiple choices, our minds are being educated as a warehouse of information and data (like a Home Depot), but the actually sense of creation and innovation may be pushed out by simply knowing how to assemble DIY kits. That is why reading old educational treatise like this reminds me how far and not always in the salutary directory we have gone from the education of mind.

Review # 2 was written on 2019-10-14 00:00:00 Diarmuid Sands I am not concerned that this writing is a century old. How much more have we learned about our mind’s workings in the last hundred years that we have not during the previous centuries? I was however caught by the author’s lack of acknowledging the famous dictum of Socrates “know thyself” and the ancient’s questioning the limits of such knowledge. The author is optimistic at the very start that “the mind can be known and studied as truly and as scientifically as can the world of matter.” He proposes that “introspection” is “the only means of discovering nature of consciousness.” (p. 1) Introspection is catching ourselves “unaware, so to speak, in the very act of thinking” or in whatever phase of consciousness our mind is engaged. (p. 2) Betts describes consciousness as a process or a stream that begins in the cradle with the baby’s first groping for light and so at the end with the last groping after light. We can only observe a moment of passing stream of consciousness. Another way of looking at it is as a field with the consciousness in the elevated in the center with whatever is we are thinking about at the present moment. We are led by either interests or will towards these peaks of attention. The author proposes to us to try observe our thinking, feeling, or willing over the next twenty four hours. This is my reading of the first chapter.