The
Education Debate We're Not Having
At a national
education summit last year, Microsoft founder Bill Gates, a huge supporter
of public schooling, nevertheless told the audience that schools were
“ruining” the lives of “millions” of children
every year. ...Public-school proponents would have us believe that
government took over education for the sake of the poor. The truth
is, early activists - urged on by education bureaucrats - idealized
the militaristic atmosphere of Prussian schools and wanted to mold
the nation’s children into “good citizens”. - Scott
McPherson
School
Gardens
Worm
Farming
Change
begins with a Child
but not as a coddled lump
of con-formity
Having
a Baby? Avoid the C-word
Our
Throw-Away Mentality
Teaching Respect and Responsibility works wonders and can change the
World!
The
BEST Way to End War
"We need only love our children
and grandchildren more than the state" - Butler Shaffer
Building
Community
Soldiers
of War Bomb Barbie's Dream House
J.C. Penney brings war to our children... at bargain
price, only $45.00! Can you say BOYCOTT?
I am
of the opionion that children must not be shielded from life, unless
a real life-threatening danger is eminent. A child should
not be turned away from the TV newz, if it is on (though incredibly
propagandist and little more than the greatest Weapon of Mass
Distraction). Children should know the horrors
of war (not the glorification of it), just as they should not be shielded
from the death of a family member. It is an inseparable part life...
and life is death, and love, and joy and pain... To shield a child
from such things is to do them a disfavor that stunts their psychological
growth and disallows them the opportunity to learn and form critical
thinking skills. This is a major problem we have today with our children...
Raised on TV BS and all the "ammenities" of technology that
offers them a magnitude of lies and instills them with conditioned
responses (Pavlov's Dog) that ultimately destroys their ability to
think rationally.
Maybe,
if one does not want their childen to see such things on a daily basis
(or hourly) one ought to toss it out the window! Or seriously reduce
what comes into your home and innoculates your children from reality.
Go outside and teach them about what is growing and thriving in your
own yard, the fields nearby and streams and mountains and valleys.
Remember when boys went to rivers and ponds to catch pollywogs and
watched them turn in to frogs. Or caught a snake, or lightening bugs?
Do any of these things exist in our channeled and cleansed waterways,
or polluted rivers (those that still exist anyway) and air. It's almost
impossible to see mulititudes of monarch butterflys anymore. Get out
and teach your children about their immediate world outside the tube...
I venture
a theory that the reason so many young people feel the need to pierce
their bodies, to the extreme, is so that they can FEEL something. So
shielded are they from the realities of life, and pain (even a playground
will not allow a sliver), that they will cut themselves, starve themselves,
pierce themselves and eventually kill and/or maim animals, and eventually
other humans... They are compelled to go to war based upon a belief
in some "higher authority" who bangs the drums of war and
claims it is ordained by god... What sort of god is this? That is the
critical thought process that needs to happen in our children. Question
every authority at every opportunity.
Take the time to find out, rather than taking the quick and questionable
path of belief.. "They" thrive on our belief and rally fools
to fight and kill people on the other side of the planet, when we can
barely manage our own life and family. Manipulation is the name of
the game, along with incrementalism ...generation by generation...
they steal your very soul... your children, and your hard earned money.
I am not
religious and question those that claim to be "Christian",
yet do not heed the commandment that says: "Thou Shalt Not Kill...
There is no "except" in that statement.
Belief
is the death of critical thinking and
common sense.
And yes,
I have a critical-thinking, compassionate adult "child".
Read more
about these things from Krishnamurti...
and also the book The Continuum
Concept
