Education and Love
What are the important things in life? Do a survey and what are likely to be the answers? The replies are likely to the things like “achieving one’s dreams” or “bringing up your kids to be healthy and happy” or “helping society”, or “enjoying the moment”, or maybe even “love”. So when you look into the schools’ national curriculum, it might seem sensible that what the kids are being taught should reflect the most important aspects of what it is to be human. It might seem sensible, but these vital aspects aren’t in the top group of subjects, they’re not a subject some way down the priority list – in fact they’re not a subject at all! The most important aspects of life are tacked on to subjects like religion. Which enforces the incorrect notion that you can’t give love unless you subscribe to a God. So how one earth are people going to understand love, and life, when nobody is ever taught it! It’s another inversion – the most important things are barely addressed, whereas, the things which stifle our souls – training to be in work – those things have become almost the sole purpose of learning for children. We’re turning kids into computer operators from the age of 5, in order to boost our GDP, without the state stopping to ask what actually is the purpose of going to work anyway? To get money to support us while we experience the wonderful world around us perhaps? Work as a means to living? Everyone goes through the school system. It is an Achilles heal in the teaching of love and life to people, and government’s all over the world should think on that, and prioritise their curricula accordingly. And have the courage to dissociate love from religion. What gives us the right to exert our egos on kids and force them to believe something which most adults nowadays question anyway? Teachers teach kids to pray to God, but ask the teachers if they themselves believe in God. Most of the teachers don’t go to church, many don’t believe in a God, and how many truly believe in the power of prayer? Not many. It’s insanity – kids being taught to believe something by grown ups who don’t! But children have the right to the Truth. Truth which stands alone regardless of anyone. Truth that love exists in us. Truth that our love makes the world a better place. Truth that we don’t actually know if there is a God. They have the right to reality, not to have their minds distorted by things which nobody has ever seen. That’s faith though.
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