Gold, precious and luxurious is “...the most malleable and ductile of the elements” and is “...the one material that is universally accepted in exchange for goods and services.”3 While a national currency may go in and out of fashion, gold has remained just as valuable today as it was thousands of years ago. The magnumatic metal is both elementarily and economically scarce because of the titanic forces needed to create it from the lesser elements. While the atomically light elements can be forged in the cores of local neighborhood stars, heavy elements such as gold require a much more violent crucible -- possibly a supernova or a stellar collision.4 While no one wold dispute that gold needs to be mined and processed just as any other metal needs, there is a distinct difference both scientifically and educationally: gold has innate qualities that no amount of tempering and chemical manipulation can breed into silver and bronze. For a person to be gold, he has to be hardwired to be so; despite training infinitum, he cannot be instructed, taught nor coached. A posteriori education is excellent when conducted with the consent of silver and bronze persons but gold cannot be refined any further using such an instrument; However, A priori education is indispensable in smelting up gold: While bronze and silver need outside influence to become better, gold needs an inside education to reach it’s peak performance. In other words, gold needs to be actively introspective and an autonomous agent.
This golden philosophy is hard for the teacher to hear, because it means that the teacher is powerless to advance their student to his ultimate potential. The teacher may be able to convert sub-bronze metals into bronze, and then into silver, but gold is completely unattainable. The teacher may try little alchemical tricks to coax the student into gold but that is all they can do. Some tricks include psychological tricks like positive and negative reinforcement. Many teachers try to set goals for their students to achieve. Teachers can influence classroom culture and atmosphere so that the students are in an academic environment. New teaching methods are frequently tried and retired. Conferring responsibility to the students is a popular way to inspire involvement.5 Some try to sugarcoat education so that it is “fun.” If you have any more examples, feel free to add them to your own list. It is important that the teacher, in trying to pursue these tactics doesn't forget that even after all they can do, the ball will always be in the student court. At best the teacher can find a talented gold-status protege, or they can attempt being an inspirational speaker and hopefully ignite the fire in the students heart.
Despite what the teacher unions may assume, the golden man dose not even need a teacher to be refined and learn. I don’t imply that a teacher is useless or that books are non-essential, because both are invaluable, but you see the golden man can and will make due without them: he is independent of all outside forces. There is no teacher who can teach what is universally unknown, and thus it is required of the golden man to be the first explorer and to climb over the wall of civilized knowledge and plunge guide-less into the wilderness. Think about it, if you had your ultimate druthers, would you invent a way to make space exploration relatively cheep? Would you revitalize ethics to reverse the moral decay we see today? Would you institute a new biological industry that employed thousands in the fabrication of artificial hearts, lungs, and other organs? Would you figure out a new urban solution thus obliterating the risk of overpopulation? Would you pop the zit that is modern politics and inoculate a true sense of justice back into government? The golden man is characterized by the fact that he is king -- not his environment. The golden man more than every other metal is the most like God and while he might not resemble Him perfectly, he dose resemble him very, very closely.
Unfortunately not every golden man shares in God’s benevolence. In many religious traditions, namely the Abrahamic ones (Judaism, Islam, and Christianity) Lucifer was one of the chiefest beings in heaven, endowed with many godly virtues and akin to the Father but for him being arrogant, demagogic, and tyrannical; the essence of evil. He may have had the qualities of a king, but not a righteous one, clearly illustrating that while all golden men are great, not all are good. This might explain why extraordinary men like Alexander the Great and Demosthenes could co-exist although one was a devout patriot and the other a whirlwind conquerer. What is particularly bizarre about the two extremes is that (despite the similarities) one man is a contractor building up man’s ultimate deistic ends while the other is a demolitions expert tearing them down; as we know however, time will always reveal which is whom.
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