Being A Human On the Edge of Enlightenment: The educational gap in America. How to build a bridge to the future?

Friday, May 18, 2007

The educational gap in America. How to build a bridge to the future?

I have some ideas on this and how we can equip future generations with learned minds that may be able to help rebuild and move forward the “Great Opportunity” America has stood for the past 225 years or so. I never again in my life want to deal with a President with an IQ in the 90’s, or one that has run 3 consecutive businesses into the ground. We need and deserve better leadership then that, but we will struggle to achieve that with the current educational system we have in place.

Let’s explore education here in the U.S. Ask any college professor about the quality of student he is receiving into his class and large percentage will tell you the students lack the skills necessary in the basic math and sciences.
This should not be hard to understand. It's a result of underpaying the people we entrust with our childrens minds. (I mean REAL teachers not administrators) We need to pay educators more OR find another way to get the best minds available to educate or future generations. Real world expenses and life cost more then we are willing to pay and perhaps more than we can pay under the current model for education.

Those that are called to teach but have been diverted into the world of business due to financial reasons are the ones this idea is constructed around. We need to expose our children to the best minds available in order to raise the bar a few notches. We need those that love what they do and thoroughly know their subject material to instruct our children.

Next installment....The concept!
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Becoming Aware

As I look around me at the world, I think about the things I have learned (personal experience) and the things I have been taught (other peoples experiences) To tell the honest truth I have learned much more in my life then I have ever been taught……but somehow I have been focused more on what I’m being taught then on what I am learning. This difference is subtle yet important.

Being taught is what happens in a classroom. Like automatons kids are TAUGHT what the powers that be want them to learn. I do really mean those words. We are not awakened to the limitless possibilities of human nature…. We are told what to believe and what is “fact”. My experience has told me that facts are only facts until they are dis-proven or shown to be only a first step in understanding.

One thing I was TAUGHT is that “RELIGION” was there to bring comfort to my soul and the soul of the world. The Religious organizations were always in a self professed struggle for our souls with the "powers of darkness"….and only adhering to their word would keep me on a path of righteousness so that I and we would be “acceptable” to the heavenly father. I want you to realize the significance of the fact we are called a “flock” or a “following” and we ACCEPT that term as something endearing and born in love.

Then I looked in my own life and my friends lives and I LEARNED that natural instinct is to want our children to reach and achieve more then we ever did. So am I to conclude the following..if the church speaks for the heavenly father, does the heavenly father want me, his child, to achieve nothing more then to perfect subservience? He does not wish for me what I wish for my own children? Does that make any sense, Or are the words I am being told to believe and follow the words of some person or group that wants to control me? Who's words ARE these and why do I give them more weight then my life's experience? Do I want to just follow leaders blindly and accept what is told to me by people in power ( religious leaders and heads of governments) or supposedly in the “know”or do I want to open my eyes and use my LEARNED life experience to guide me forward?

Have you ever contemplated that there is a vested interest in retaining the status-quo? You and I are to blame for this too because it's EASIER to accept what is told to you....but what about when you get that nagging feeling in your stomach that something just isn't adding up ... doesn't maintaining the status-quo explain allot of “stuff” they tell you not to think about or worry about (Roswell incident) or science that had been learned that was “too important” for the general public to know about (read about Nikola Tesla ) until it had been fully militarized. What great scientific advances are under wraps or just plain being discredited because they are in the public domain? Why don’t they encourage in earnest new scientific endeavors until they try to fully realize how it can be used as an offensive or defensive weapon?

It’s time to remove the wool that has been intentionally pulled over our eyes all these century’s. With the advent of the internet and the decentralization of storage on the web, it is becoming impossible for the continued control of what information you are given. The lies you have been told can now be debunked, the misdirections uncovered and the conspiracies revealed. They try to counter act this by going on the offense to debunk the debunkers or call the newer scientific advances frauds, which in turn has creating a war for your mind. The key word in that last phrase is YOUR mind.

All I hope to achieve with this blog is to have a space in which we can examine different views and bits of knowledge that are out there. My intention is to post things that interest me and might interest you too. Maybe even a place for the synergy of energy to bring like minds here to meet, talk and exchange views on the material presented here.

Thank you for the energy that you bring to this planet.

Namaste’