Who's Responsibility Is It Anyway?

Yesterday I posted about the before and after of modern schooling systems. Before schooling, we are all growing at a staggering rate. After schooling, most humans are stuck in their identity of who they are, what they know, how they get by, who they'll be friends with, etc...

Is it nature or nurture? Do our neurons stop developing through the school-age period, and we're simply DONE at age 18 o3 22? Or does the schooling system take it out of us and leave us a shell of the curious, creative soul we were born to be?

I'm sure there's studies and arguments on both sides. This is a fun, light-hearted blog, so I'm not going to get into it.

What I want to consider tho, is what an educational system might be like that fully embraced curiosity, creativity, questions and exploration.

Do you think an adult who was socialized to see failure as growth, change as life and questions as the keys to the kingdom would allow him or herself to be locked into a frustrating job with a mountain of debt and a cocktail of mood altering prescriptions to numb the soul and tolerate the madness of our modern social systems?

I hope not.

Even a slightly inquisitive mind with enough experiences playing sports or music will know that practice is the key to mastery. What if that inquisitive mind turned itself on solving the problems we really face, not just the problems posed to us by big media and a morally absurd social norm that allows us to jet around sipping our collective lattes in our sweat-shop clothes and disposable lifestyles like we're more important than the 200-300,000 starving and impoverished laborers (per each of us) that have been shafted into making this possible?

What if we simply raised our kids to ask bigger, more important questions?

What if we gave them tools and introduced them to teachers or mentors who could help them answer those questions?

What if a generation of young adults emerged like a force of nature and swiftly implemented new solutions to problems that, as Einstein warned us, could not be solved at the level we were at when we created them?

Because we can't solve war with bombs.

And we can't solve the schooling system problems with teachers and administrators who are a product of that schooling system.

I'd love to hear what you're personally doing to take your child's education into your own hands.

Cheers,

Craig

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