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Pottery Wheel and the Thalamus of Brain: Shaping Clay, Shaping Knowledge

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Abstract This article explores a unique analogy between the pottery wheel and the thalamus of human brain, highlighting their shared role as the dynamic centers of transformation. In pottery, spinning wheel allows a potter to mold shapeless clay into a functional and artistic form through deliberate motor actions and tactile feedback. Similarly, in human brain, the thalamus serves as a central relay station, processing sensory inputs and coordinating motor responses. These actions shape the brain’s internal structure of knowledge, known as brainpage modules in learnography. By comparing the potter’s craft to the process of learning, this article emphasizes the importance of motor science, task-based engagement, and sensory-motor integration in effective knowledge transfer. Obviously, learnography is a system of active knowledge transfer, where learning is constructed through action. The concept of learnography reframes academic learning as an active and brain-centered process. This met...

Skill, Knowledge and Experience: Three Pillars of Gyanpeeth Mastery in Brainpage Learnography

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Abstract The Gyanpeeth Experience in brainpage learnography redefines the essence of knowledge transfer through the synergistic integration of skill, knowledge and experience. Rooted in the Taxshila Model and powered by motor science, this approach shifts learning from passive reception to active and self-directed mastery. Skill is developed as motorized knowledge, practiced through physical interaction with learning tasks. Knowledge is acquired via book-to-brain transfer, forming dynamic brainpage modules that store and organize the topics and tasks of subject chapters for application. Experience, the third pillar, reinforces learning through real-world interaction, reflection and adaptive application. Together, these three basic elements of learnography cultivate the gyanpeeth mastery of knowledge transfer. This is a state of empowered learning that prepares students not only for academic success but also for life’s complex challenges. This paper explores how this model offers a tran...