The Tree of Newkirk

The Roots of Leadership Mastery

THE TREE OF NEWKIRK 

The Epistemology of Learning -

The Road to an Architecture of Learning.

The Transphenomenality of Education and the Antithesis of Indoctrinated De-Education

         ENABLED BY APPLIED KNOWLEDGE EMPOWERED BY COMMITMENT

 A secure personality leads to: Wisdom in action.

Intellectual maturity leads to: Secure personality.

Mature wisdom leads to: Intellectual maturity.

Critical judgment and not criticism leads to: Mature wisdom.

(critical judgment is participative - how to think).

Authentic self-esteem and not the Public Relations Personality Syndrome leads to: Critical judgment.

 Personal humility leads to: Authentic self-esteem. 

Reflective self-awareness leads to: Personal humility (You are no more or no less than what you really are.) 

The theologian would say that we are no less nor no more than what God knows we are. Socrates urged: Gnothi Seauton, Know Thyself).

Informed opinion leads to: Reflective self-awareness.

Educated opinion leads to: Informed opinion.

Simple opinion leads to: Educated opinion (Simple opinion is reactive; it is derived from being taught only what to think rather than how to think).

Personal opinion leads to either: Personal growth, intellectuality, and the path to simple opinion or Invincible ignorance, the path to collective and personal prejudice.

             PATH OF HUMAN EXPERIENCE & PATH OF HUMAN GROWTH