Now that we have shown that the education system is best equipped to return humanity to a state of cohesion this project has just taken on a very interesting twist. I want to be certain I don’t lose anyone in the ride that is up ahead. Let us review how we got here.
This began with the second requirement of the Nobel Peace Prize – the eradication of standing armies. The only way to effectively eradicate standing armies is to get rid of the distrust that makes them necessary. We then discovered that distrust is founded in a false sense of inequality or fragmentation within the human system. This led us to conclude that our primary goal is to eradicate the prevailing sense of fragmentation that humans experience. In attempting to determine who which of our institutions is best equipped to lead this re-education effort charge we concluded that both religion and government are not qualified because they are inherently fragmented.
This leads to another problem. The fragmentation that we find in humanity is a sign of a species that is not well-educated; the education of this species has clearly gone awry. In recent times several people, including Vartas Gregorian, the President of the Carnegie Corporation, have complained of the fragmentation in our educational curricula. If the fragmented nature of religion and religion disqualifies them from eliminated fragmentation from humanity how wise could it be to expect the education system to solve a problem that they seem to have caused? Thankfully, there is a plausible explanation and it involves the interesting twist we spoke about.
There are really two parts to education. The part we are more familiar with is what we call formal education and it really should be called Instruction. This is what goes on in classrooms around the globe. Instruction is based on the fiction that everything that should be known is known. In theory, teachers teach their students established truth. But there is another aspect of education that does not get much attention in the education community even though it may be more important. It is this part of education that we are interested in; the part that says we continue to develop and change as a species.
Everyone knows about the difference between instinct and intelligence. Animals function on instinct but humans have to use their intelligence to figure what they need to do in order to survive. This is because animals had a complete evolution. They know everything they needed to know in order to survive. This also has its limitations as we can see when the food source of certain species is threatened. They lack the ability to come up with a new food source. Humans are better off because we are less informed. Because our DNA does not tell us exactly what to do in each situation we have the privilege to figure those things out. What we should eat, how we should dress, how we should move about. Those issues are settled for non-human species. Humans can come up with a variety of options, and sometimes we can be wrong.
In this attempt to figure things out that we are attempting to complete our evolution or development. Fragmentation is one place where we got it wrong. We need to correct it. The future of the species is at stake.
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If man is truly created in the Image and Similitude of G-d, his evolution can never be complete because, like animals, his behavior would be instinctive. Because man was meant to be a god, there can be no limit to his education/evolution. "The race has not yet found out how to educate its children, though it has been trying for many years", said Ernest Carrol Moore of Harvard University, in his book "What is education", published in 1915.
One of the joy of living is the ability to recognize and correct one's mistakes. Lifelong learning seems to be the proper term for this. As long we focus on education as the passing on of accumulated knowledge there will be no hope of evolution for man, and no freedom from distrust can be achieved.
It is interesting that you cited a book from 1915. Two important books on this issue also were published around teh same time. They had the same name, "The History of Education." 1901 and 1904 by different authors.
As I said earlier, all the information we need is already out there. We have chosen to ignore it. When we look at the crime and violence caused by our distrust we can't continue to ignore the solution. It is cheaper to eradicate distrust than to fight its fruits.
How though do you account for the "evil" that men (and women) would do? Are you saying that individual acts of people harming people will be eliminated via this process?
I am not making any such suggestion. Rather I am suggesting that these acts only occur against people that are viewed to be enemies. If you only fight against your enemies then the outcome is obvious if you no longer have any enemies. It is a process similar to growth.
Yees, if men were educated from infancy to trust and love each other. There would be no need for wars. We dont fight those we love.
fighting is not the only harm that humans inflict on humans... child molestation, domestic abuse, etc. Ask those who inflict that kind of trauma and they would say that the love the person they hurt, and if not love certainly they did not see them as an enemy....
I think there are two responses to what Clay mentioned. First, mental defect may account for those behaviors whereas wars are begun by people who are in full control of their faculties. On the other hand, while they may not view them as enemies they certainly do not view them as bein a part of themselves. The effect is the same. Mine vs not mine. This reminds me of two of Hosea's children.
did not th bible say somewhere the imagination of man is evil beyond compare, who can know it. then we are xhorted to have the mind which is n Christ Jesus. why because Jsus thought it not robbery to be like g-d, but chose the form of a ervant. Why, because Jsus creatd mankind, so He lovs and claims and includes us in himslf. so it is an education that gt humans to think lik Jesus did. A liberating education that views all as equal
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