Educate Yourself That Earth Is Our Children’s Sweet Home!

Can you ever believe that children you love and take care of so much will not have a healthy and clean home- the earth by 2050. They won’t be able to afford a lifestyle that we are having today if we continue to exploit the natural resources at the maximum level.  Our natural resources which are meant to sustain human existence on this earth are being extracted mercilessly and without much consideration for ecology. If the process of extraction continues at present rate, then naturally our children whom we love and care so much, will be orphaned and homeless. How can you expect your own offspring to have no sweet home- the Earth?

The forests, water, fisheries, petroleum products, coal, iron and other materials are getting exhausted due to excessive exploitation. The forest cover areas are reduced, water resources are contaminated due to toxins from the factories, air is being polluted so much that people are contracting and affected by unknown diseases.  If this process persists for another 10 to 20 years, then our children will be denied their sweet home. They will be homeless, for earth may not be suitable for living.

The consumer goods that we buy are full of toxic chemicals. They are poisonous and hazardous to our health and children’s health but knowingly or unknowingly we use and consume them. The fragranced consumer products are everywhere today. People use them in order to enhance their beauty and appearance. This happens because the media has created a hype that toxic chemicals make people look beautiful and handsome. These people don’t know about the composition of these products, due to lack of prior study, complexity of formulations, and limitations and protections on ingredient disclosure. Experiments and analysis were done on common fragranced consumer products—laundry products, personal care products, cleaning supplies, and air fresheners and found that 24 are classified as toxic or hazardous under U.S. federal laws. You can check here for further information-http://www.sciencedirect.com.

There is a new school of thought which is based on sustainability, equity, green chemistry, zero waste, closed loop production, renewable energy and local living economies suggest that these things are possible to attain if the government acted seriously and strongly together with the ordinary citizens. The large companies are creating manufactured demand and as a result they go on creating consumer goods rather than a better education system, or lifestyle.

The present technology, innovation, breakthrough and research and developments should not follow their industrial age of thoughts and philosophy. The great scientists and technologists should design technology that are eco-friendly and cause no pollution. It is possible to innovate completely new kind of technology though many claim impossible. The government must play an active role in spearheading the project to save the earth and provide a future home to our children and grandchildren. If we don’t take care of things now for them, how can they take care of things for their future?

Many economists claim that human wants are unlimited and resources are limited but why don’t they suggest some ways to sustain the resources for generation to come? Actually human wants are limited, if we educate ourselves to decide what are important and required for living. The corporations go on producing goods to make human wants meet but they should produce things which are healthy and good for human existence.

I am bit concerned about the manner the earth is being treated by the powerful men and women in the name of making more profits. Why can’t we plan ways to live together and provide for all ecologically, materially and socially? I believe in the future, our children will laugh at our folishness and childish behaviours. Instead of taking care of all, we think of only our needs and well being. Why not think collectively and take care of people collectively so that there will be happiness, peace and harmony in the world?

Let’s educate ourselves to provide a sweet home to our children so that they can be proud of us, and be responsible themselves to leave a legacy for generations  and generations. Earth is powerful, beautiful and liveable for all mankind. It belongs to every one and not a few big organization. A few people have no rights and power to choose to endanger the entire humanity and human existence. They must consult every citizen of this world if they want to do something. There should be some systems set up in order to assess all public voices to avoid mistakes. The earth belongs to all and so every one is responsible and important in saving our children’s sweet home. Let’s act now before it is too late.

Alwed Ekka

Wipe off the accumulated dust!

This is a great new year 2012 because it is filled with unprecedented opportunities to shine, thrive and live a lifestyle of your own making. Well, I wish all my readers a happy new year. This is the first week article and I hope you enjoy reading it.

This morning I was washing clothes and out of nowhere a thought emerged in my mind. I asked myself a question, why do people wash clothes when they get dirty or why do we wipe off the dust from the table or chairs? Why do we want to get rid of them? The reason is very obvious. Of course we want to wear cleaned clothes or use cleaned table or chairs. If there is dust on the chair, we normally dust off and sit. We normally don’t sit on the dust or we don’t wear the dirty clothes.

This put me into thinking that we don’t tolerate the uncleaned/dirty things and of course nobody does that for sure but we all fail to clean or dust off our bad habits, unforgiving hearts, irritation, anger, jealousy, hatred, quarrel and ill feelings. We don’t get rid of them  instantly. Instead, we wear them all the time, through out the day or month or years. We don’t mind wearing them unlike the unwashed clothes. We find it easy to cover up things or hide it from others by putting on cleaned clothes.

Just like we wash the dirty clothes so that we can look nice when we wear them, likewise, we must also wash ourselves too. We must get rid of our ill feelings, anger, envy, hatred etc. It would be an excellent idea to shed off old habits that don’t bear good fruits,

Another point that I would like to make here is that when we make mistakes, we feel bad. Why should we fret so much about it. Just like the new dress that gets dirty, same we get dirty by making mistakes. Mistakes haven’t belittled or harmed us. The mistakes have only made us dirty for a short time not permanently. We can clean our mistakes by learning some wonderful lessons. It is naive to ask, why do I make a mistake? It is like asking, why does clothes get dirty? Clothes get dirty because that is how it is supposed to be.

We live in this world and we are expected to dirty our hands but we shouldn’t continue to remain in dirt. We should clean and wash ourselves all the time. By becoming dirty you don’t become dirty for eternity. It is for short period. Remember, if you make a mistake, learn the lessons that you are supposed to and don’t have guilt feeling about it.

It is important to wipe off the accumulated dust that has been settled for months, years and lifetime. Do the laundry symbolically to wash off and renew your inner soul. You will feel rejuvenated and refreshed. You will have the wonderful experience of resurrection – becoming new again.

Alwed Ekka

Unschool Yourself For Freedom, Health, Prosperity & Happiness!

Conventional schools operate only to manufacture human products for big international companies all over the world. If people continue to follow the path of conventional education system, they can’t survive rather can not shine and thrive in 21st century. Here are some excellent quotes by wise men and women to inspire and guide us  to unschool ourselves and our future children.

“We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson

“My schooling not only failed to teach me what it professed to be teaching, but prevented me from being educated to an extent which infuriates me when I think of all I might have learned at home by myself.” -George Bernard Shaw

“There is, on the whole, nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a school.” -George Bernard Shaw

“The only thing I didn’t do in school was learn.” -unschooler Jason Lescalleet

“I am always ready to learn, but I do not always like being taught.” -Winston Churchill

“How I hated this school, and what a life of anxiety I lived there for more than two years. I counted the days and the hours to the end of every term, when I should return home from this hateful servitude.” -Winston Churchill

“School-days, I believe, are the unhappiest in the whole span of human existence. They are full of dull, unintelligible tasks, new and unpleasant ordinances, brutal violations of common sense amd common decency. It doesn’t take a reasonably bright boy long to discover that most of what is rammed into him is nonsense, and that no one really cares very much whether he learns it or not.” -H. L. Mencken

“Schooling, instead of encouraging the asking of questions, too often discourages it.” -Madeleine L’Engle

“A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.” -George Santayana

“Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance that accumulates in the form of inert facts.” -Henry Adams

“We’re drowning in information and starving for knowledge.” -Rutherford Rogers

“Every day I went to school was a constant attack on my self-worth. I learned not to believe in myself. It was a bombardment from all directions; the teachers were saying how bad I was doing in their classes, my family was ashamed of my grades, and the students were attacking me about everything under the sun! I was like a plant trying to grow in darkness–it doesn’t. It all left me afraid to dream my dreams-afraid to be my true self! Who wants to show their true self if they’re just going to get a rock hurled at it?! The real question is: how do we undo the damage done? We have to take time to dream again, not other peoples’, but our own precious dreams that mean everything to us. Our dreams are our life maps.” -unschooler Jenny Smith

“Before children go to school in the first place, all of their natural learning systems are intact. This is what we can see from families who have homeschooled their kids from the very beginning. However, once children are in school for about three years, they are forced to shift over to a very unnatural system to survive the emphasis on memorization and the daily stress, rigidity, and humiliation of classroom life.” -Judy Garvey

“You cannot teach a person anything; you can only help him find it within himself.” -Galileo

“I do not believe much in education. Each man ought to be his own model, however frightful that may be.” -Albert Einstein

“It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.” -Albert Einstein

“It is… nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom; without this it goes to wreak and ruin. It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty.” -Albert Einstein

“When was the last time you saw a tombstone with SAT scores inscribed on it?” -Edward B. Fiske

“Most people, most of the time, learn most of what they know about science and technology outside of school.” -National Science Foundation

“My grandmother wanted me to have an education, so she kept me out of school.” -Margaret Mead

“I hate, loathe and despise schools….School is bad for you if you have any talent. You should be cultivating that talent in your own particular way.” -Maurice Sendak (author of “Where the Wild Things Are”)

“Each day was a severe test for me, sitting in a dreadful classroom while the sun and fog played outside. Most of the information received meant absolutely nothing to me. For example, I was chastised for not being able to remember what states border Nebraska and what are the states of the Gulf Coast. It was simply a matter of memorizing the names, nothing about the process of memorizing or any reason to memorize. Education without either meaning or excitement is impossible. I longed for the outdoors, leaving only a small part of my conscious self to pay attention to schoolwork.
“One day as I sat fidgeting in class the whole situation suddenly appeared very ridiculous to me. I burst into raucous peals of uncontrolled laughter, I could not stop. The class was first amused, then scared. I stood up, pointed at the teacher, and shrieked my scorn, hardly taking breath in between my howling paroxysms.” -Ansel Adams (who dropped out of school at age twelve and began taking photographs)

“Oh, yes, I went to the white man’s schools. I learned to read from schoolbooks, newspapers, and the Bible. But in time I found that these were not enough. Civilized people depend too much on man-made pages. I turn to the Great Spirit’s book which is the whole of his creation. You can read a big part of that book if you study nature. You know, if you take all your books, lay them out under the sun, and let the snow and rain and insects work on them for a while, there will be nothing left. But the Great Spirit had provided you and me with an opportunity for study in nature’s university, the forest, the rivers, the mountains, and the animals, which include us.” -Tatanga Mani, Stoney Indian

A letter from Native Americans to settlers, dated 1774:
We know that you highly esteem the kind of learning taught in those colleges, and that the Maintenance of our young Men, while with you, would be very expensive to you. We are convinced, therefore, that you mean to do us Good by your Proposal; and we thank you heartily. But you, who are wise, must know that different Nations have different Conceptions of things; and you will therefore not take it amiss if our Ideas of this kind of Education happen to not be the same with yours. We have had some Experience of it. Several of our young People were formerly brought up at the Colleges of the Northern Provinces; they were instructed in all your Sciences, but, when they came back to us, they were bad Runners, ignorant of every means of living in the woods, …neither fit for Hunters, Warriors, nor Councellors, they were totally good for nothing. We are, however, not the less oblig’d by your kind Offer, tho’ we decline accepting it; and, to show our grateful sense of it, if the Gentlemen of Virginia will send us a Dozen of their Sons, we will take Care of their Education, instruct them in all we know, and make Men out of them.

“I loathed every day and regret every day I spent in school. I like to be taught to read and write and add and then be left alone.” -Woody Allen

“I was undisciplined by birth, never would I bend, even in my tender youth, to a rule. It was at home I learned the little I know. Schools always appeared to me like a prison, and never could I make up my mind to stay there, not even for four hours a day, when the sunshine was inviting, the sea smooth, and when it was joy to run about the cliffs in the free air, or to paddle in the water.” -Claude Monet

“It is absurd and anti-life to be a part of a system that compels you to listen to a stranger reading poetry when you want to learn to construct buildings, or to sit with a stranger discussing the construction of buildings when you want to read poetry.” -John Taylor Gatto

“The truth is that schools don’t really teach anything except how to obey orders.” -John Taylor Gatto

“There can be no education without leisure; and without leisure, education is worthless.” -Sarah Josepha Hale

“I was asked to memorise what I did not understand; and, my memory being so good, it refused to be insulted in that manner.” -Aleister Crowley

“Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training.” -Anna Freud

“If the student fails to learn, the teacher fails to teach.” -unknown

“Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.” -Oscar Wilde

“How is it that little children are so intelligent while men are so stupid? It must be education that does it.” -Alexandre Dumas, fils

“Knowledge has outstripped character development, and the young today are given an education rather than an upbringing.” -Ilya Ehrenburg

“Our schools have become vast factories for the manufacture of robots. We no longer send our young to them primarily to be taught and given the tools of thought, no longer primarily to be informed and acquire knowledge; but to be ‘socialized.'” -Robert Lindner

“Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.” -Plato

“Education consists mainly in what we have unlearned.” -Mark Twain

“It is easier for a teacher to command than to teach.” -John Locke

“An educator never says what he himself thinks, but only that which he thinks it is good for those whom he is educating to hear.” -Nietzsche

“The things we know best are the things we haven’t been taught.” -Vauvenargues

“The teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron.” -Horace Mann

“Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college.” -Lillian Smith

“I can’t give you a brain, but I can give you a diploma.” -L. Frank Baum, The Wizard of Oz

“School is like a lollipop. It sucks until it is gone.” -Ashley Salvati

“How could youth better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?” -Henry D. Thoreau

“The more I think about it the more I think high school is seriously warped.” -J.S. Feliciano, Pump up the Volume

“Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.” -Isaac Asimov

“In the end, the secret to learning is so simple: Think only about whatever you love. Follow it, do it, dream about it…and it will hit you: learning was there all the time, happening by itself.” -Grace Llewellyn

“It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results. The wish to preserve the past rather than the hope of creating the future dominates the minds of those who control the teaching of the young.” -Bertrand Russell

“We don’t need no education. We don’t need no thought control. Hey teacher, leave the kids alone.” -Pink Floyd

“Children do not need to be made to learn about the world, or shown how. They want to, and they know how.” -John Holt

“L“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will spend its whole life believing that it is stupid.” ~ Albert Einsteinife learning is about trusting kids to learn what they need to know and about helping them to learn and grow in their own ways. It is about respecting the everyday experiences that enable children to understand the world and their culture, and to interact with it.” Wendy Priesntz

“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will spend its whole life believing that it is stupid.” ~ Albert Einstein

“I spent three days a week for ten years educating myself in the public library, finding mirrors for myself in hundreds of books. At the end of ten years, I was completely educated. I had read every goddamn book in the library, and I’d written a thousand stories.” ~ Ray Bradbury

“A true bubble is when something is overvalued and intensely believed. Education may be the only thing people still believe in in the United States. To question education is really dangerous. It is the absolute taboo. It’s like telling the world there’s no Santa Claus.” ~ Peter Thiel, co-founder of PayPal

“School days, I believe, are the unhappiest in the whole span of human existence.” ~ H.L. Mencken

“None of the world’s problems will have a solution until the world’s individuals become thoroughly self-educated.” ~ Buckminster Fuller

“I think schools generally do an effective and terribly damaging job of teaching children to be infantile, dependent, intellectually dishonest, passive and disrespectful to their own developmental capacities.” ~ Seymour Papert

“We learn because we want to learn, because it’s important to us, because it’s natural, and because it’s impossible to live in the world and not learn. Then along comes school to mess up a beautiful thing.” ~ Peggy Pirro

“As far as I have seen, at school…they aimed at blotting out one’s individuality.” ~ Franz Kafka

“We must demolish the institution of schooling because it impedes learning and enslaves children. Then we need to put both money and creativity into creating opportunities and infrastructures that respect children and help them learn.” Wendy Priesnitz

“Drop out of school before your mind rots from exposure to our mediocre educational system. Forget about the Senior Prom and go to the library and educate yourself if you’ve got any guts.” ~ Frank Zappa

“Children are born passionately eager to make as much sense as they can of things around them. If we attempt to control, manipulate, or divert this process…the independent scientist in the child disappears.”  ~ John Holt

“Everything I am interested in, from cooking to electronics, is related to math. In real life you don’t have to worry about integrating math into other subjects. In real life, math already is integrated into everything else.” Anna Hoffstrom

“Education itself is a putting off, a postponement; we are told to work hard to get good results. Why? So we can get a good job. What is a good job? One that pays well. Oh. And that’s it? All this suffering, merely so that we can earn a lot of money, which, even if we manage it, will not solve our problems anyway? It’s a tragically limited idea of what life is all about.” ~ Tom Hodgkinson

“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.” ~ Pablo Picasso

“School is the advertising agency which makes you believe that you need the society as it is.” ~ Ivan Illich

Compiled by Alwed Ekka

What Did You Learn Today?

I quite often ask children who return home from schools, “what did you learn Today?” “Did you learn anything new?” What replies can you guess you will get when you ask children after the school? The most common replies that you will get: I learned nothing. It was a boring day. There was nothing new. It was the same old thing-BORING. This really got me into thinking why not the children learn something new everyday. There are many things that children don’t know about that they can learn and not be the victim of boredom.

There are vast areas of interests that children should engage in themselves to learn and master because they are capable of doing so. I understand when they go to school they learn nothing other than what is there in the books. Other than apple and orange they don’t teach other fruit names though there are many fruits available.  Parents expect their children to learn something new everyday but their children don’t learn new things. It is a pathetic phenomena today.

It is good to ask ourselves what new things we learn everyday? If we are not learning new things then we should make an effort to learn new things. Learning new things are basis of making our life better and meaningful. Let’s teach ourselves something new and also help others learn new things.

The children should be able to say I learned today about human behaviors, about healthy eating habits, how to remain healthy, happy, rich, and peaceful. I learned today how to be creative, innovative and how to make mistakes. I learned that I can make a difference in the world. I learned today that people are same and should not be discriminated. I learned today to be polite, respectful, helpful and generous. I learned how to make the best use of resources. I learned how to train people, teach people, empower people, guide people, mentor people and I learned to take care of animals, plants, the nature and the earth.

If children are taught all these things they will surely say they have learned something new everyday otherwise the texts will seem boring and stagnant. It is important to teach children what is important. Schools and colleges today don’t guarantee job security or financial security yet people value them too much and go extra mile to pay even the highest fees. The parents are willing to pay high fees for the children to get best academic education but they cringe paying for the most essential things of life that they must learn about.

Alwed Ekka

 

Teach Children To Become Better, Wiser And Skillful!

Many challenges of life could be easily overcome if we teach our children to become better, wiser and skillful. As long as people inhabit the earth, we are going to face problems that could confuse and depress us but if we focus on developing skills that can solve our problems then our children will be able to outlive space and time. Are we making our children better, wiser and skillful human beings of tomorrow?

It is always a human nature to wish life to be easy, less challenging and less demanding. But it should not be so because we can’t evolve to become what we are supposed to be. Schools and colleges must teach children to be better humans, wise and skillful enough to trade on any path they wish. However, it should not be the case of surviving one’s existence over the expense of another. The mentality of “survival of the fittest” should not be determining human existence.

I wish that children should be educated and taught to become better humans in order to continue the purpose of existence itself. I would like to see young people finding new ways to live on this earth. They should cast aside the conventional system, the dogmas, the doctrines, the old beliefs, old philosophies and various cartels for pretty obvious reasons. The conventional systems have failed us and misled us to anarchy. There is no cohesive principles in existence that can support human beings who want to live peacefully, happily and freely.

Even if nobody is teaching children to become better, wiser and skillful, they will be led to choose only those things that matter to them. Many youngsters do spot the errors in the old system and they don’t want to be part of it. Children will attract better things, better life and better future if they use their wisdom and skills wisely for the benefits of all. TEACH children to become better, wiser and skillful so that they can attract all the good things they wish.

Alwed Ekka

 

Instruct Children Through Informal Ways!

As a saying goes, ‘there is no ready made solution to problems’, we should realize too that there is no established formal ways to teach children everyday. Children get tired and bored when we apply the formal ways to teach them. They resist the formal approach but accept without hesitation when there is informal style of instruction. I will explain further what I mean by informal ways.

Today, children are taught in a formal environment all over the world and they get conditioned to learn in a traditional way. Though they dislike it, they have no choice but to resign to the fate of established system. Formal education system may work for some but not all children therefore parents must use their prudence to know what their children really require and provide them respectively.

I have observed first hand that children don’t really enjoy formal set up of instruction because it is rigid and inflexible. It curtails their freedom of movement, expression, experiment, exploration, imagination and innovation. Students learn more when they are taught in a friendly and informal way. They feel relaxed, open and receptive. I have been using informal approach for the past six years and I have noticed children gaining greater benefits this way than formal method of instruction.

Include as many informal words, expressions, tools and ideas as you can in order to teach children and they will love it. Your energy won’t be drained as much as it would otherwise. The children won’t feel lousy, lethargic and stressed too because the burden gets lighter. Try out yourself and use it for greater effectiveness and result.

You will discover informal ways of instruction while teaching the students and observing them. It is said that students should concentrate in the class but more than that teachers should be attentive during the period of instruction to get any feedbacks from the students. The feedbacks show up as you immerse yourself in instructing the students. Informal ways are kind of on the spot teaching tools. Without real connection there is no much gain and outcome so be open to apply informal ways to teach any difficult concepts.

 

Alwed Ekka

Teach Yourself To Keep Children Original!

All children were born original and they are original human beings. They don’t belong to our respective generation, time and space. They belong to their generation, their time and space. We adults tend to commit a grave mistake in educating them. We teach them to be fake and unreal. We discipline them to conform to our outdated time and space. It is a fallacy of the education system.

We as parents, elders and educators are not upgraded to the point that we can keep our children original. Our children are born with unique time and space, intelligence and ability that we can’t easily fathom. We try to understand them from our old perspective and vision. I think it is wrong to see them as we perceive.

We need to be educated and taught not to spoil them through our education system, which we believe is the best invention on the planet earth. Just pause a moment and evaluate the situation. Our children spend minimum 20 to 25 years in schools, colleges and universities and how can we expect them to waste so much of their precious prime time of development and growth? Many students don’t seem qualified enough to meet various industries needs though investing nearly 7300 days in 20 years span of time. These 7300 days are very important phase of learning, development and growth because it determines whether the children will stay original or take the unreal shape.

I am afraid that our children should be turned into one kind of mechanical robot to do one particular task. The education system propagated by industrialists and other vested interests won’t serve the purpose of human existence and survival on this planet earth. Being original can solve a greater part of our world problems.

I urge the parents, elders and educators to teach ourselves to keep our children original so that they can belong to their time and space. They come with varied skills and abilities to solve the challenges of modern existence. I am sure there will be goodness, harmony, peace, love, abundance and health among all mankind if we encourage originality..

My son will complete soon 3 years and all these time and space I observed and learned a lot from him how elders miss the point of education. My son is fast, active, vigilant, fearless, curious and original. I am afraid if we as parents are able to see the originality as he joins the school.  When children are fast, we say they are too fast and the reason is we are slow not they.

We as parents, elders and educators must guide them, coach them and mentor them to grow in their space and time rather than our space and time. Our space and time is not same as it used to be when we were born. It has changed and we have moved on in years. So obviously, we don’t see our time and space. We are in our children’s space and time because we are moving in time and space. Let’s respect our children’s time and space and avoid conforming them to one system.

Alwed Ekka

Don’t Remain School Educated!

Majority of parents and children believe that going to schools and colleges will guarantee them a secured future for lifetime. I think they are mistaken by this notion because there is no safe and secured jobs available to feed people. School educated people spend most of their precious time working for others and working for money that doesn’t support them. It is necessary today that people should not be content with school education alone for taking care of themselves. They must engage in learning and educating themselves about many things.

The tax that people are paying today through inflation is very high and governments all over the world are silent and blaming the banking systems or the whole sale market and hoardings. Inflation is a ravenous tax system, which devours all people. It is a strategy that is used everyday and everywhere today. People are school educated and they are only prepared for jobs. But they are equally so ignorant about the truth that is bypassed by ignorant statements of people in authority. Going to school is important today more than before but don’t remain school educated for the rest of your life. Learn new skills and ways to make a living and possibly to earn a fortune.

Looking at the world financial crisis all over the world, I get the feeling that many are school educated and nothing more than that. The schools don’t teach everything and don’t tell the truth. As long as people remain school educated, so long as people will suffer and remain ignorant about the world and the system that controls the entire world economy. Those who understand the market economy benefit much and grow richer and richer while others who have no slight knowledge fall prey to recession, inflation and other fallacies.

Therefore don’t remain school educated for life long. If you had educated yourself about silver investment two years ago, you could have benefited a lot by now whose price is sky-rocketing day by day. The school educated people don’t recognize easily the opportunities rather they forego them. Allow yourself to acquire as much information about many businesses and market activities.

Don’t remain school educated for life, do something to expand your knowledge base and information channels to harvest more benefits. Move out of school boundary and have no limit in your interest to explore truth. Go as far as you want and be independent to develop and educate yourself to maximum.

Alwed Ekka

Let’s Educate Everybody!

Education has been a tool for centuries and it was guarded with great care. Only a few really had the access to good education while others were considered to be slaves and ignorant, not fit for learning. Even in this 21st century, the same situation and attitude exist among human beings. The education is reaching to those who can afford it by paying high fees. Why not educate everybody instead of a few?

Let’s educate everybody how the present economic systems works and functioning all over the world. If everybody knows about the status of present economic system, the majority of people will never approve the present style of economic system. The masses will oppose and won’t support it because it doesn’t take care of everybody. Many people are ignorant how money is printed, transferred, charged interest and invested. If people knew about the reality behind the banking systems then people will never vote for the political leaders who are part of the conspiracy theories.

Let’s educate people about food, resources and other needful things in order to survive on this earth. There is enough food production, resources and other needful things but the present economic systems create lack and scarcity to scare the people in general of not enough. The available food production can feed everybody for 5 years even without producing further. It is the profit based market economy that is causing inflation, recession and depression.

Let’s educate everybody about the health issues and medicines. Medicines actually don’t cure the diseases. Medicines only postpone the death day by allowing the sick to live for few more years. Medicines only harm the natural immune system and kill the cells that keep a person alive. In my view, a tree saves life, it nurtures the life and maintains the human existence on earth because it gives clean air. It is better that we should know about ideas behind the marketing of pharmaceutical medicines. They are there in the market for profits and profits don’t guarantee the continuation of life.

Let’s educate everybody that manufacturing weapons, bombs and engaging in wars are not of human nature. Fighting and quarrelling come from inside the mind of people no doubt but it can never be approved. Bombs won’t threaten life, but they do create a massive destruction on this earth. So we should never manufacture weapons to kill people rather we should innovate weapons to feed people and sustain living beings on this earth.

Finally let’s educate everybody that loving, understanding, caring, helping, guiding, teaching, leading towards right path and doing good things are the real objectives of human existence. We must adhere to the purpose and mission to live peacefully, abundantly, freely and truthfully. Let’s educate everybody in all aspects of human civilization and endeavor. Let’s be a better human civilized world today.

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Be An Active Learner And Not A Passive Learner!

Each individual is blessed with unique set of talents, skills and abilities. These abilities can be further developed potentially if the individual assumes the responsibility of learning the stuff by actively involving himself/herself. Being an active learner is the best thing that an individual can taken upon himself. Passive learning has no depth and strength. It is therefore desirable to be always an active learner.

My son is two and half years of age and I am proud to see him involve actively in exploring, learning, questioning and knowing things by himself. My son is learning many things because he is involved in the process actively and it is a great way of imparting education to children. He holds the toys and admires it, throws the ball, breaks the stuff, fixes the broken pieces, scribbles on the walls and papers and repeats the rhymes, says the alphabet and recognizes the animals, plants, colours, flowers and many other objects. All these things are possible for him to do because he is an active learner. He learns himself by his beautiful senses because all of them are involved actively in the process. This is how the adults should learn as well as the grown up children.

I am afraid, as my son would grow up and join the institutionalized schools and colleges, he might be discouraged to continue his active learning style. The schools and colleges don’t really appreciate the active learning style rather they encourage the students to learn passively. Here there is not much participation of students. Everything is ready made and fed to the students’ brains. This passive mode of learning is not a better choice because it cripples the able person from learning and growing.

When I was studying philosophy the professors always gave ready made ideas, concepts, knowledge and wisdom of other well-known philosophers. They expected the students to learn by heart those concepts and vomit them out during the exam. It was purely an exam centric study and an absolute passive learning style bored and tired me so much. There were no new ways of looking at the reality and the world. Those already discovered notions, concepts and ideas stood like the fundamental principles or dogmas and that couldn’t be changed. On the other hand, I wanted to rethink, rediscover, re-analyse the concepts and re-look the existing reality from a new perspective but were not encouraged to add new ones because being a student I couldn’t think or figure out new concepts and notions. It is important to be an active learner today because you will learn more and there is a great depth and strength.

These days children are made to learn things passively. The system doesn’t allow them to learn actively. This is a sad phenomena and if it continues it is not good for the future generation. Albert Einstein as a child was a slow learner. He couldn’t do better academically in the beginning but when he persisted his active learning style, he emerged victorious, genius and great. This is what an active learning style could do to an individual if they really learn to embrace it. Bill Gates pursued and did things actively as a result he could transform his own life. So did Steve Jobs, Michael Dell, Larry Ellison, Thomas Edison and many others. Active learning frees one’s ignorance and gives freedom.

It is therefore important that you become an active learner than a passive learner. If you want to be an extraordinary human being, you must follow active learning style. Don’t remain passive. Be active and do something that you find catchy and interesting.

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