EDUCATION: a discussion

"The United States has mastered the art of under development, and developed a veiled attempt to maintain that policy and approach towards children. Genius hides or reveals itself in youth. Teachers need do only two things for children: stoke the child's fire, and allow them to play. In short, create sacred space where the space dictates the behavior of the teacher, and the spirit of the child reveals itself to the teacher, the community, and the family. Pulling a child out of this safe space is cruel, self serving, and selfish, but it is the state of the American education system. " Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories

Thank you Gregory, but I humbly submit that it is worse, much worse than what you've said. I'm reminded of those famous lines in the "Charge of the Light Brigade":

Theirs not to make reply,
Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to do and die:
...Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.

Western education is a tool of social control that would be the equivalent of a mother Eagle plucking the feathers of her fledglings and then nudging them out of the nest. However, although I loathe the notion, there are good reasons for a booby-trapped educational system: First and foremost, a mind left to its own survival will automatically seek higher levels of consciousness; consequently, the wicked men who sit in the pantheon of the gods understand that they must spoon-feed us a diet of servitude in order to remove the innate inclination to…as the ancient Egyptians said, “Know thyself,” which is, I believe, the most profound quote ever uttered by human lips.

I’m always looking for inspiration for a new article, and I think I’ve discovered it this morning in this article – Know Thyself! This concept is nearly impossible in a society that disrupts our natural rhythm with creation and the universe on every hand: Why do we celebrate “New Year” in the dead of winter? Why is there a daylight savings time, which alters our body's harmony with creation? Why do we continue to celebrate the destruction of the human species with poor diets, poisoned water and air, and a lack of rest? And add to that, a controlled education designed to have one to ride off into the valley of death…Yours is not to reason why, yours is just to do and die.

There is no more wicked a remedy to life’s ills than the offer of suicide, except when the practitioner requires that you build the furnace that you will jump into. In the end, our greatest deception of all will be that we participated in our own destruction.’ – David R. Tolson November 12, 2010

Korean babies

“David, you are making a revolutionary's call to radically change, not society, but self.” –Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories