The exile of feeling in education

[Skyhaven]

Hi all,

I often think about the root problems of our current global condition: the environment, socio-economics and the application of ethics in general. I think we could better the situation a whole lot if we would only re-asses our education system. I really feel we need to change what we teach the children at school.

A lot of what we learn at is school is about strengthening our rational mind, we are taught that our feelings do not matter. They only matter in our personal domain as taught by parents and people close to us, but it comes down to our collective domain we are basically taught by the education system that we need to get out there and make sure we get a (big) piece of the pie by using the left side of our brain.

Why is there never anything substantial on any political agenda of any party about what we teach the children, shouldn't a better world start here?

Here is a link to a talk by Ken Robinson that further addresses the matter:

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[rgray222]

The ruling elite for centuries have understood that information through education is liberating. This is precisely why most slaves around the world were never taught to read and write. The aim of the elite was to make life so difficult and so hopeless that people actually believed there was no way out of their misery. Once this paradigm was broken and education became the norm, the education people started to receive was outstanding. They were getting the same education as the elites. Consequently we had and explosion of free thinkers and achievers. They essentially built most of Europe and the USA. This could not stand because this elite status was never meant for the masses.

Ever since those heady days of outstanding achievement and confidence through education we have been in a slow deliberate decline. Education was taken over by the government, education became a right and was no longer a privileged. Wealthy people recognized this at an early stage an started to build their own schools. These private schools are still the schools of choice for the elite. These children educated in privilege are the ones you will find at the expensive elite universities. This has changed over the years but not much, there are children that go on to get an expensive education through academic and sports scholarships but these elite schools are still primarily for the elite.

Many people have woken up to the fact that their children are not "really" being educated in our public school system, hence the explosion of home schooling. The public education system teaches (if you want to call it that) only the basics. They do an extremely poor job educating young minds, most schools have cut back or cut out virtually every academic extracurricular activity that would challenge children. Home schooling is akin to opting out of the matrix, that explains why many governments will not tolerate home schooling.

Empathy and ethics were only meant to be reinforced from the school system but schools no longer attempt to address these qualities. Parents of today expect too much from the government, too much from schools. Government over-promised and schools horribly under deliver. The educational system is a bureaucracy, most of the much needed money never makes it out to the "field" where it will do the most good.

Parents and students of today should not look to the school system for character, empathy, ethics, or any form of excellence. Yes there are pockets of excellence but as a rule our educational system has been in decline for decades and shows no signs of changing. The only chance that students have to to learn these qualities is at home because the government will make no effort to instill these qualities in children

[Snowflower]

Regarding the word, "feeling," it is vitally important to understand that the leaders of the powerful countries are, for the most part, psychopaths. This means they have no connection to anyone (or thing) outside themselves. They want a world of automatons who cannot experience great joy or great sorrow - simply worker bees without self. The school system reflects this plan. So does the mental health system. Drugs are intentionally designed to create neutrality of emotion: no highs or lows. I believe the percentage of school age children on some form of brain-altering drug is 30%. Scary.

[BlueMuffin]

The ruling elite for centuries have understood that information through education is liberating. This is precisely why most slaves around the world were never taught to read and write. The aim of the elite was to make life so difficult and so hopeless that people actually believed there was no way out of their misery. Once this paradigm was broken and education became the norm, the education people started to receive was outstanding. They were getting the same education as the elites. Consequently we had and explosion of free thinkers and achievers. They essentially built most of Europe and the USA. This could not stand because this elite status was never meant for the masses.

Ever since those heady days of outstanding achievement and confidence through education we have been in a slow deliberate decline. Education was taken over by the government, education became a right and was no longer a privileged. Wealthy people recognized this at an early stage an started to build their own schools. These private schools are still the schools of choice for the elite. These children educated in privilege are the ones you will find at the expensive elite universities. This has changed over the years but not much, there are children that go on to get an expensive education through academic and sports scholarships but these elite schools are still primarily for the elite.

Many people have woken up to the fact that their children are not "really" being educated in our public school system, hence the explosion of home schooling. The public education system teaches (if you want to call it that) only the basics. They do an extremely poor job educating young minds, most schools have cut back or cut out virtually every academic extracurricular activity that would challenge children. Home schooling is akin to opting out of the matrix, that explains why many governments will not tolerate home schooling.

Empathy and ethics were only meant to be reinforced from the school system but schools no longer attempt to address these qualities. Parents of today expect too much from the government, too much from schools. Government over-promised and schools horribly under deliver. The educational system is a bureaucracy, most of the much needed money never makes it out to the "field" where it will do the most good.

Parents and students of today should not look to the school system for character, empathy, ethics, or any form of excellence. Yes there are pockets of excellence but as a rule our educational system has been in decline for decades and shows no signs of changing. The only chance that students have to to learn these qualities is at home because the government will make no effort to instill these qualities in children

I'd go even further and say there's a concerted effort not only to incrementally dumb down the population through our sorry excuse of an education system, but through physical means. If you look at the general quality of food and water, the absolutely ridiculous amount of contaminants and adulteration it's inundated with is having a long-reaching effect on general development and reaching our ultimate potential. Despite the claims we are supposedly living longer and healthier lives, we are slowly degenerating and passing our inherent weaknesses to our children in an already toxic and increasingly toxic world.

This is demonstrated by the fact babies at birth are loaded with hundreds of measurable toxins, and then we compound the problem with the brilliant decision to inject toxic poisons called vaccines and grant them a heavy dose of heavy metals to add insult to injury... a new born baby!

It's absolute madness I tell you.

[Frederick Jackson]

Yes, and it goes from bad to worse. With Bush's No Child Left Behind creating a culture of education by the numbers and Ms. Obama's school lunch program leading to further malnourishment and physical and mental weakness. Low fat milk for children? Why, the milk fats may have been the only decent thing they were getting for lunch! In Mexico, I understand the norm is to teach by computer. What better way to eviscerate our children emotionally while preparing them to live life as a mindless worker bee. Yes, it very much does seem as though there is a policy in place to dumb us down via not only a poor educational system but by poisoning the environment, particularly in the use fluoridated water and salt and also in an overarching vaccination campaign. This is part and parcel of the NWO Global Depopulation Policy. See:

http://real-agenda.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/KILLING-US-SOFTLY2.pdf

and

http://real-agenda.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/CHEMICAL_AND_BIOLOGICAL_DEPOPULATION.pdf

[rgray222]

Happen to come across this article tonight that supports my post #2

Record number of parents turn to homeschooling
Truth Frequency Radio
Aug 15, 2014

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RALEIGH, N.C. – North Carolina officials say there has been a huge increase over the past two years in the number of Tar Heel families who have pulled their kids out of public schools and begun educating them at home.


Source - Truth Frequency Radio (Record number of parents turn to homeschooling
Truth Frequency Radio
Aug 15, 2014

EAG News

RALEIGH, N.C. – North Carolina officials say there has been a huge increase over the past two years in the number of Tar Heel families who have pulled their kids out of public schools and begun educating them at home.
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[Daozen]

Good thread.

- I wouldn't sit there bemoaning gov. policies towards education. It'll take them decades to change.

IMO it's more constructive to aggregate a list of low cost private teaching schools and systems. There are hundreds of revolutionary projects out there.

Cool idea for thread:

10 low cost schools for the future.

[wnlight]

It really seems to me that the "dumbing down" of the US public school system is really an effect of the greater process of gradually removing resources from the general public. As the middle class is being decimated, there has been more emphasis on survival and less on formal learning. This seems to be true at all levels below that of the elite.

I think that children are being prepared to be fodder for corporate slavery. It seems they are taught how to do, but not how to think. Those who continue on to higher education generally must rely upon student loans which are designed to enslave them for many years after their degree(s) has been earned.