The Soup Of Life - The State Of Education

 

I am looking on in horror at the state of education in it's present form.  The old Sysan Proverb states the soup of life is salty enough without adding tears to it and I believe our Government is adding plenty of tears to the education system at this time in history.

Parents are removing their children left, right and centre to escape the draconian damaging effects of Government control over an education system that is failing, and letting down, so badly, so many children and families.

Of course Home Education is a freedom that every parent has, but not all parents are equipped to educate their children in a way that children need to thrive in a modern world. How can they when they themselves have been so badly let down by that very same system even before their children get there and inherit a system that has so badly failed so many before them.

We are all swimming against the tide. Education is not just about learning Maths, Science, etc etc, education should encompass how to learn so that this can be applied to every facet in life. This is an essential ingredient to help children get through this thick soup of life. To help the child is to help the adult.

It is not just about subject, it is also about substance and that magic substance ingredient, in my opinion the most important and essential ingredient is missing from our current education system.

In times gone past political education philosophy was about controlling the masses to work in the factories and in the fields, but that has lead to what other experts have termed 'dumbing down the masses'. That long term effect has lead to todays chaos in the classroom and ever more people leaving in droves.

The whole education system needs to be overhauled but I fear that reform is something even the so called experts in education are having difficulty in finding the answer to.

Meanwhile, we wait for someone to come up with an answer to how we stop parents taking their children out of schools to home educate, and Governments desperately trying to stop them, fearing that the children will not get the education that philosophy dictates and they have a right to receive by law, yet ironically that very substance in our education system they are trying to prevent parents leaving, itself is missing that essential ingredient. 

That essential ingredient to education that will assist a child to progress and get on in life is a right enshrined in law for a reason, those events that lead to that law being made and those that devised and developed it, understood the importance of that Law for a harmonious society and advancement of the human race. A law that will assist our children to progress and be successful in life. yet paradoxically knowing how the education system has failed the parents and contributed to the social decline that we see with ever higher suicide rates, bullying and violence and parents feeling like they have lost control. 

On the other hand we have the problem of how do we stop schools giving up and off rolling children by teachers that have had that all essential ingredient absent from their training. This lack of essential ingredient in their training is so very evident and causing chaos across the education system.

There are so many problems with the education system it is hard to see where it all starts, but one problem is leading to another and all the solutions they are coming up with are just causing more chaos.

Our education system is in a mess and unless someone comes up with that missing solution to get it back on track we can only expect things to get worse.

The education system is a mess and the more solutions that are implemented  by so called experts, the more of a mess they are making. Experts failed solutions are causing ever more issues and ever more social woes. The failure of the education system is costly to society in so many ways.

The thick soup of life just gets thicker and thicker when it comes to education, despite all good intentions, in my opinion by the laws of nature the experts have currently got it all wrong.

Policy makers really do need to start listening because if they do not, who knows where this will end with the social decline unfolding before our very eyes.

The deficit in the education system is having serious knock on effects right across all facets of life for millions of people, it is a recipe for disaster, it really is time our Government woke up and stop sleep walking us all into disaster.

Ignorance breeds ignorance

I found myself shaking my head once again at one news report that appears to be circulating and doing the rounds entitled Parents OUTRAGED at curriculum as video emerges of children learning to PRAY at mosque.

There are no comments on this article which of course would divulge the pure ignorance of the article.

This hate fuelling rag often has articles along the line of encouraging hate towards Muslims, but appears to get away with it due to their style of cleverly skirting around the law.

What is sad is that people want to keep their kids in ignorance, surely it is better to understand what others do, with a knowledge of the why and how's, instead they teach their kids to hate something they know nothing about, the reactions of the children having instruction on how to pray in a mosque seems to have unsettled a lot of people and resulted in attacks of the school system for trying to teach an understanding of other religions and cultures.

This is the problem with teaching diversity and respect for other cultures and religions, people are afraid of what they do not know and some are so ignorant they would prefer to carry on hating it rather than understanding it and preserve their ignorance no matter how much it is detrimental to their kids.

Among the voices of disdain are calls that it is indoctrination, but please... give me a break surely it is better to let a child have an understanding of what their parents are hating on so much, rather than be indoctrinated in hate, hate is the ugliest human trait especially when it is accompanied by ignorance.

I will certainly be doing the same and introducing my kids to different religions so they have an understanding of what is wrong with this world, when it comes to hate against other religions and cultures, I want my kids to be part of the solution and not part of the problem.

We will be having visits to different places of religious worship so they have an understanding of how other people conduct their faith, Mosques, Buddhist temples, Churches, Synagogues are all on our list of places to visit, we will be looking at what other people believe and the structure of their religion.

The funny thing is, I bet if you asked these people what they 'hate' so much about other religions you will not get any kind of rational answer from them, how can they give a rational answer about something they know nothing about.

Kids need to understand what is happening in the world and why there is so much religious hate and intolerance, understanding what history has shown us and why there are still battles between religions will surely go a long way to making our world a better place.

Even the atheists need to be understood, and the main theme I get for atheists is that there is a war fatigue going on, they are sick to death of the battles between religions, even then there is a sense of ignorance as some do not understand anything about religion by either way of history or culture.

I can forgive those that have a fundamental understanding of religion and then come to the conclusion they 'hate' religions, but for the majority that is not the case, they just hate something they know nothing about, living in their little ignorant bubble of hate and ignorance breeding further generations full of hate and ignorance.

Teaching a child about other religions is not about indoctrination and it is something I hear a lot, 'little Tommy is being indoctrinated because they have learnt about Diwali or little Jane has visited a Mosque so will now become a terrorist'.. It is so sad to hear.

One thing I love about our world is the diversity of culture and religions, these are all to be celebrated as that is what has been at the core of humanity since the beginning of mankind, it has been the primary source of social progress.

Those universal spiritual principles which lie at the heart of religion -- tolerance, compassion, love, justice, humility, sacrifice, trustworthiness, dedication to the well-being of others, and unity, are at the very foundations of progressive civilizations.

At the same time, it must be acknowledged that the perversion of religion has been a primary cause of social disintegration, intolerance, hatred, sexism, poverty, oppression and warfare down through the ages, with the addition of ignorance, surely for the further progression of mankind teaching children about religion can only be a good thing.

I can hear a few reading this saying 'I do not want my child to be indoctrinated into any religion', but that is not what I am saying, what I am saying is that understanding and learning about history does not make one a historian, or learning about art does not make one an artist, but it does give an understanding and goes a long way to enrich life. Visiting a mosque and having instruction on how they pray does not make one a Muslim.

Some parents need to look beyond their own selfish self and understand that their kids are not them, they are growing up in a very different world to them and it would go a long way to help their children prepare for the world that the majority want to live in, a peaceful one, action is what it takes to make a better world and every one of us has a part to play in that, breaking down the cycle of ignorance and intolerance is a good place to start.