EDUCATION

It is a gorgeous day! The Sun is shining! It is going to be in the sixties today, fantastic!

Yesterday, I was crabby. I don't know why. Crabby enough to put Jamie on a state of alertness. Two days past the New Moon, so it shouldn't have been related. I often have a touch of crabbiness on the New Moon. I had a good sleep last night and I am not crabby now.

In our discussion for relearning, I would like to talk about education today. I know little about this subject, in terms of what to do about it. Like lots of people I see much of what is wrong. There is a great deal of experiment with education and I believe the answers are out there.

Education is one of our major problems. Children are programmed to fulfill a sick societies requirements. We create drones to supply workers so a few can gain more power and money. The teachers among us might protest. From inside their capsule they might see it differently. They are dedicated beings who are doing everything they can to help their students. They want their pupils to think for themselves. They want the kids to learn and grow, and despite being in a system that seems to discourage genuine learning, many are opening their eyes to truth.

Lets face it. We are all products of a crippling system. We don't even know our history. As some one said, “The victor writes the history.” We are not told the truth about how the indigenous peoples, we call Indians, were brutally eliminated on our sweep Westward. We don't use the word genocide, when it is most appropriate. We don't know the truth of any war. The real reasons. The enemies atrocities are blaringly published; our own, how much do we really know? We don't know the real horror of slavery. Oh things come out. We have some idea; but our history is much worse than we imagine.

History is an easy example of how we distort education. It happens in every field. Anthropology and Archaeology have been crippled by elitism. New thinking is punished. New evidence is distorted to fit old ideas. One of the most crippling ideas, is the assumption that we have progressed in a linear fashion and there are not older civilizations that were more accomplished. I think that is absurd. I propose, that in a few years from now, we will recognize we are in a very dark age, intellectually, philosophically and scientifically. Spending some time reading the ancient Greek philosophers can be an eye opener. I learned about atoms, energy, the nature of perception, the nature of illusion, and had a look into a different world. I was startled by how much the Greeks knew, and more startled, that there was little acknowledgement in our educational system.

That be as it may. The past is the past. The greater tragedy is what we are doing now. We are more interested in turning out slaves for the military/industrial complex than we are in creating free beings.

What would an educational system look like that was geared to turn out free, creative beings, to live in the now, and enjoy the benefits of this lovely Earth?

I will leave you that thought.

The telephone rang ten minutes ago. My beloved brother, Garth, died last night. He left peacefully. It is a relief. He struggled somewhat in his last few days. Now I know why I was crabby yesterday.

Love and Peace, Gregg