There Can Be No Freedom Without Limits.
Every individual comes into life as a baby who has forgotten their ancestors. We are obligated to remind them of their ancestors, teach them the rules of the game, and instill the limits of life. The child must learn through education what can and cannot be done in life, that is, the limits. Since their ancestors were educated, they too will be educated, meaning they will be an ancestor who has been limited.
We Must Inform the Archer of Their Limitations and Possibilities.
What separates the naughty child from the well-behaved one is that the well-behaved child’s behavior has defined limits. Humanity and individuals arrive in the world as newcomers. They do not know what can be done in the world. Society and parents teach them how to behave by setting boundaries. It is natural for children to misbehave because they do not yet know what can and cannot be done. Children learn through trial and error. It is necessary for them to make mistakes. They learn what is right after making mistakes by understanding the limits set for them.
Ensuring that a child displays a certain behavior means controlling them with multiple limits.
In the universe, which is a whole of limitations, education is an activity of imparting limits on what we can and cannot do. Just like the universe, it liberates while setting boundaries. While doing so, showing them an affection they will not encounter in life, or cruelty, is also harmful because their expectations and limits will be shaped according to you. There are many factors beyond your educational goal, and even controlling everything will not suffice for success. The individual’s unpredictability and randomness, that is, mutations, are also important. Unlike animals, education does not bring immediate benefits; it doesn’t even produce long-term individual benefits. Instead, it brings individuals who are beneficial to society, but the return on this investment might come from society itself, not from the person you educated. Words exist because they are limited by their meanings. The universe exists because it is limited. Education, too, exists because it sets limits, and thus humans exist.
Education is Like Salting to Preserve.
Salting, that is, limiting the spoilage of food, may seem cruel; however, it has been deemed necessary for human survival in the harshness of life. Limiting people is necessary to prevent their deterioration. Setting limits is essential to teaching them both the rules of the current game and the skill of setting limits themselves. Individuals and societies learn the rules of life by playing the game, what can and cannot be done. If we don’t provide an education on limits, they will live as victims, thrown into life, a game they don’t know how to play. They will believe they are limitless throughout their lives, but since they are not part of the rules, they will never taste the freedom of the limits.
Limits Must Be Clear, Understandable, and Consistent.
Every individual learns through trial and error. If the rules are not explained to them in a way they can digest, they cannot be expected to follow them. The personalization of education, that is, taking the learner into account, often does not happen. An individual learns unknown things through the things they already know, and this is a process of digestion. A person who cannot relate new information to what they know, who cannot digest it, will disregard even important information. Not following societal rules is a mistake made by individuals who fail to digest the limits throughout their lives. Limits that are not acquired during childhood and not reinforced in a disciplined manner by the environment are very difficult to gain later in life.
Negative Limits Can Lead to Violation of Limits.
In education, negative limits, that is, prohibitions, should be replaced with positive limits, that is, substitutions. Without providing an alternative to a rule like “Playing is forbidden,” the desired behavioral change won’t occur. People test societal limits, wanting to play with them to feel a sense of accomplishment and see their strength. You need to make them feel that you will offer this opportunity through study, work, or worship.
A command like “Don’t joke in class!” gives a limit for making jokes. If you are not intimidating, they will make jokes. Instead, saying something like, “Make a joke that everyone will enjoy,” or “Once the task is done, we’ll all listen to you,” could be a better way of setting limits. Also, prohibitions are unlimited and vague, but what we want to be done is more attainable and clear. If we say, “Don’t think of an elephant!” the other person will think of an elephant. We need to focus on what we want to achieve.
A Good Archer is Trained by Learning Limits. Limits Make Them Successful.
A person is alive to do something, not to refrain from doing something. We must focus on the limits of the bow, the arrow, and the world, and the task at hand. No addiction, illegal action, or immoral limit overstepping can be eliminated without putting something in its place. People will become what we want them to be, by limiting them with other things that we don’t want them to be.
