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What law does the speaker use as an example?
Buying a house
The right to be silent
Meditation in public
Free speech
What does the speaker say is like birds singing or monkeys chattering?
Sitting and meditating
Most of what people do
Discussions about laws
Taking time to think
What does the speaker say is one benefit of meditation?
It makes you aware of the way you feel.
It makes you uncomfortable with silence.
It makes you realise the value of speech.
It makes you act without thinking so much.
What is this talk mainly about?
Ways to better study for school
Topics that should be taught in school
Benefits of using meditation
Laws that are important to know

Things that people should learn at school.
That I think they should teach but never do.
Something that I wished I'd known about.
It's about the law.
Just the general sort of, day-to-day what rights we have, and what rights we don't have.
If you go out for a walk in the countryside, and there you see a sign, "private do not trespass." what does that really mean.
You know what, when you buy a house, do you really buy it or is it just on loan from the Queen, or what does it all mean.
It would be nice if people were taught, what the law was actually about at school.
And how to interpret what they read in law books.
Rather than leave it to, solicitors.
I think the ignorance that, that people gain from not understanding the law leaves all these solicitors and bods in the same  room as, high priests almost, or something else.
You know, masked in mysticism.
And long words of jargon.

Another thing I think that it would be nice for people to learn at school.
Is, just the ability to sit, and meditate perhaps.
I think they teach it at_ to some degree in play.
But... They need to pay more attention to it.
They need to pay more attention to it, because so much of, what people spend their time doing is just sort of transient.
It's not worthwhile.
It's like birds singing.
Or monkeys chattering, or something.
They just do it because they can.
But at the end of the day  is so much of what they've said,  sort of really worthwhile.
I think they'd find if people thought about it, that a lot of what they say isn't, sort of any value.
And meditation that gives you time to think.
It allows you to be, comfortable with your silences.
Or with other people's silences.
It also, allows you to, sort of, be aware of the way you feel.
And the way people, interact, in a non-linguistic manner.