Test scores reflect only one part of the process of education; the part that applies at the individual level. An educational process that focuses primarily on test scores or individual performance is deficient. Human problems are not caused by our inability to understand the word around us but by our inability to understand each other. Unfortunately, not only do our educational systems pay scant attention to the latter but they seem unaware of the insidious negative effect that the area they focus on has on our ability to understand each other.

It is a lack of faith to have faith without checking the basis of your faith. Faith must not only be based on what an entity can do but in how important it is. That is why I don't only drive my car but I check the oil and other fluids. It makes no sense to have faith in what God can do and have no faith in how important He is to you. If He is important to you, you will continue to assess what you think about Him.

Success is defined by understanding, not by preparation. No amount of preparation will enable you a accomplish a task for which you are not designed or which you do not understand.

Many people seem to think that Systems Thinking is the same thing as thinking systemically. This leads to the idea that there is a group we can identify as systems thinkers. Systems Thinking is a natural condition; to think systemically is a positive action by an individual. Thinking they are the same could be counterproductive, One result is that we are more focused on how to lead organizations/systems instead of understanding the role of systems thinking in how these entities lead themselves.

The greatest battles of all time have been won by the brain not by brute force. This is why the key is critical thinking and not critical action. Yet we have confused the two, advocating critical action while believing it is critical thinking.

Breaking the resistance

Humans have experienced world peace in the past so there can be world peace in the future. The key lies in understanding that the remedy we propose for any situation depends on our analysis of how that condition came into existence. At the moment we seem to think that the disruption we now witness among humans began in one area and has spread throughout the species. It is from this analysis we have developed the idea of healing the world one person at a time. The analysis is wrong so the remedy is also wrong.
The only place where we can find an adequate analysis of how disruption entered human consciousness is in the Bible. Unfortunately, because that section of the Bible -- Genesis 1-4 -- is also accepted as Scripture to both Jews and Christians it allows for both theological and social interpretations. Unfortunately, the only interpretation that has been accepted is the theological interpretation which says that disruption among humans was sown by an outside influence. This leads to the expectation that world peace must also be imposed by an outside influence. Both the analysis and the remedy are wrong.
The key to finding the remedy lies is accurately analyzing how the disruption entered our psyche. We need a social interpretation of Genesis 1-4. How much longer will the theological world resist?

Two Bibles

How can a book that is so widely read, studied, analyzed and discussed be so universally misinterpreted? When people say "The Bible" says they don't even realize that there are two parts to the Bible and the part that is used as justification for what they claim the other part says does not say what they believe it says.

I am not blaming anyone because I did not see it either. But I see it now. Most people believe that the first chapter of Genesis was written to prove that God created the world. That sounds reasonable based on how it begins: "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." But they fail to see that if that was the reason why that chapter was written, chapter two would not have been included in the book as well.

Because they assume a false purpose for the chapter they have not taken the time to figure out the real purpose why the chapter was placed in the book of Genesis.

In short, that chapter was written along with chapter 2, 3 and 4 to explain why humans do all the inhumane things that they do. The way it is written it also provides the way to get rid of them, and it has nothing to do with religion.

I can understand why believers would miss that. They like the idea of fallen man being rescued by God. I don't understand how skeptics and non-believers could miss it