title: The Habit of Thought:  From Socratic Seminars to Socratic Practice
author:  Michael Strong 
description: I am impressed...I like the common-sense practicality combined with high pedagogical ideals. -- <i>Eva Brann, Dean, St. John's College and author of The Paradoxes of Education in a Republic.</i><br /><br />Michael Strong's ideas made me the teacher I am today. Socratic Practice gives meaning and relevance not only to our curricular studies within the school, but also to our out-of-school lives. -- <i>Elaine Griffin, 1995 National Teacher of the Year.</i>
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   **The Path of the Mystic**
  
  Talks given from 04/05/86 pm to 26/05/86 am
  
  English Discourse series
  
   **CHAPTER 1**
  
   **Thoughts are always subversive**
  
  4 May 1986 pm in Punta Del Este, Uruguay
  
  Question 1
  
  BELOVED OSHO,
  
  YOU HAVE HAD PROBLEMS STAYING IN SOME COUNTRIES. IS IT BECAUSE YOUR
  
  THOUGHTS ARE SUBVERSIVE?
  
  Thoughts are always subversive.
  
  Only people who do not think are not subversive. Thinking is a crime. Jesus is
  crucified, Socrates is poisoned, Gautam Buddha is stoned. These people have
  not harmed anybody. They were the most loving, most compassionate human beings
  possible – but they committed a crime, and the crime’s name is thinking.
  
  No society wants any of its members to think.
  
  Thinking is dangerous.
  
  The society wants robots who simply do whatever is told to them, who cannot
  say no – that is impossible for them. They are machines.
  
  It is not accidental that every developed society is replacing man by
  machines. Machines are obedient, never subversive. Have you e