Re: Public Education needs to be changed!

cosmicbdog [no longer around] said Aug 5, 2007, 1:52 AM:
 

What are we made of, but the questions we ask and the things we seek?


Today, people are taught how to look for answers, but what is an answer without a question that is derived from substance? And what is substance? Matter? No, science tells us today that matter is derived from within. We fill the void with our intention. Add demension to the quantum soup. Learning is definitely not a single thread, but a multitude of them, and they over lap and create learning banks that combine forces over time.

Education system, or education smorgasboard?

Today, we have this strange sort of education detention system that is based on some German fella who thought “hey everybody, here's how we can gain maximum production by getting everybody to a certain standard”… So this current paradigm of 'education' isn't about learning in a seeking sort of sense, its cage of conformity in order to gain maximum gain from those who are pulling the strings at the top!

Giving the system credit, it has recognised it needs to innovate, and it has to a degree; essentially what you have though is exactly what Aley has declared in this post and that is the teaching to a standardized test. As long as you have that, u have failure. Restriction. A reason to be uninspired. Frustrated.

What teachers don't recognise is that establishing the desire to learn, is far far far greater than the actual learning of anything in particular itself. Until a real sense of meaning and purpose is established, what is the point?

1 + 1 = 2… hooray… u get a star..

But u know what, perhaps to some cadet, 1 + 1 doesn't equal 2 it equals 0 and he's gonna fail the test big time. But u sit that cadet down with mathematical eccentric and he will be recognised as a genius. Sit him down with a sharman or guru and the child has insight.

In a new world, perhaps it won't be so solid that 1 and 1 is 2, and that if a child mentions something abstract that perhaps there could be something new coming through? Sure, it is important for energies that are being born into this world to understand what is, but doesn't that only serve as much for an actual dialogue to take place between the new and the old?

So education is preperation for the world. Preperation for a solid or a change? The world is different by the time the education has finished. Concepts that were taught are now irrelevant? What do u do? Well, the uninspired learned remains stagnant while the inspired forges ahead.. keeps with the times and adds a bit. Naturally, the strongest survive. Generally the uninspired join the treadmill.

Here's something to question, teachers of the world… if what we have created so far has got us all in a bind now, concerned about global survival and on and on the negative list goes…. what makes us so sure we have the answers?

Who should be asking the questions? Who should be doing the grading?

There needs to be a meeting point, of course.

What do we want to come about from our learning interactions? A better world? A better inhabitance?

We can't have a fixed learning schedule and expect there to be change…. and we can't expect there to be innovation in young minds when we have irrelevant deadlines being imposed. 

Do we continue boring minds, slaughtering their time for the production line? Or do we inspire minds, remind them of insight, unleaden the chains and get them ready for change?

Do we continue scratching our heads, wondering why children are so angry in schools, pretending the reason isn't the fact that every being knows when its energy is being sucked to death by something, and it is, because u innately know that what you are being taught is a bunch of stuff to support t and further a broken and backwards system that probably should have never been implemented in the first place? 

“Oh no, its all those violent video games and movies”, yells the teacher and government in unison. Yep, they'll do anything they can to attack on the things that keep your mind away from homework and study just so that you can end up joining the queue.

Wake up edu!