Question: I'm an organizer in Baltimore. And, as a brand-new organizer, I'm having some trouble managing my studies. [LaRouche laughs] Being so many areas to study: economics, mathematics, philosophy and etc., which are all interrelated, I find myself jumping around a lot, and basically wasting my spare hours or days to study, because I'm skimming over a lot of topics. And, those hours are pretty precious, as a full-time organizer. So, I guess I'm asking for your advice, which is: Where do you think the best place is to start? And why?

And, I also have a second part, because I'm obviously finding that most so-called "historical" accounts, are nothing more than propaganda and fallacy, so I'm looking to find a way to research the true history of my Irish and Celtic roots--

LaRouche: Your what? I can't--

Question: --for an historic account of the relationship between religion and the peoples who created them?

LaRouche: Oh! This is fun. Well, of course, there may be some cross there, because, you know Classical Greek was the language of Christianity; it was the language of St. Paul and John, for example--the Gospel of John--which, in a sense, touched the influence of people like Cicero, in ancient Rome. And, of course, affected strongly Augustinus and others. And, from thence, Christianity and that Classical Greek tradition in Christianity, was passed to Isidore of Seville and [adding an Irish lilt] it made its up to Ireland, of all places.  And the Irish were the only Christians in sight!

And, the Irish then Christianized the Saxons. And, as I've said, the Saxons, in turn, returned the favor by Christianizing the court of Charlemagne. But, then the Normans came in, and they slaughtered the Saxons, and there's not been a Christian seen in England since--at least that's the Irish version of the story.

This, I think, is the reality of it, is to look at this question of Irish and Classical Greek: It's ideas. Ideas. And, of course, in the Irish, you're looking at the poetry and things like that--the legends and so forth. Which obviously had--and, but of course, there was the Norman influence there, too, so you've got to take into account, the Normans did conquer Ireland, and ruled it for some period of time.

On the other thing, how to organize conflicting studies: My view is, from experience with this sort of thing, reflecting upon my life's experience with it, would be, that you have to have an independent standpoint--independent of any of the subjects as such, or as classroom subjects--and you have to sort of "look down" on them from this pinnacle, or observation point, which lies above them. Then, you are the master of the experience of the studies, rather than you being a person, buffetted from one island in the sea of this or that, to another. The problem is, when you're buffetted about.

And, most education today, in most universities and schools, is pretty bad. It's gotten much worse, as I've observed over the recent generations. I thought it was bad, when I went there--but, it's much worse today. So, really, you have a problem; you have a cultural problem in society, in which it's working.

So therefore, you have to have an independent standpoint, a sense of personal identity and knowledge, which stands above and outside the confines of any of the subjects as taught. Then, you look at each of the subjects as taught, clinically, as an observer of those subjects, from the standpoint where you find your own identity. It's the only way to deal with this. What I've done, and developed over the course of my life, I quickly developed my point of view, my sense of personal identity, as opposed to my exposure to this horrible thing, called the education to which I'm being subjected.

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