Reforms Start With Kids - Good morning to all of you! - A lot of nowadays' social misalignment, incongruity and misfitting is crying ever the louder for drastic change. The primary question though, appears to be, "Where and most of all how would we induce this long overdue change. We need a major shift of paradigms to solve that problem and to stop it from globally spreading any further.
In order to take a step as paramount as to slowly reverse certain deeply encrusted negative social patterns, we will have to reconsider educating our off- spring while they are still flexible as far as teaching and adapting to new and fresh ways. Our kids are in fact the only way out of a multitude of dilemmas as the bearers of light into a much brighter future. We just need to teach them differently from what we've been used to. Let's think outside the box for a while. Spiritual awareness is something that we all ought to be working on, but up to a certain age kids seem to have a much more natural access to spirituality than adults. Therefore we should enhance this natural path by keeping them away from the narrow- minded ways we tend to perceive reality and by releasing them from those rigid stereotyped duties and chores. Instead we should let them be themselves as they are about to bond with fauna and flora first. Schools should be de- institutionalized and turned into a type of full day care centers where only the spiritually most advanced teachers are recruited for work. Of course, this would imply creating different schooling places for that new species of educators first. Those facilities would not require millions of dollars to maintain them but would be simply equipped and run by volunteers who are willing to work on a base of bartering. The new day care centers would be kept plain and simple to take the focus away from any monetary values which may easily confuse the young minds. The less pompous the surrounding, the less distraction and thus more time and energy to concentrate on the bare essentials of teaching. In my kind of school I would first and foremost start teaching the kids how to treat themselves and one another with respect since this to me is the primary milestone down the road of change. Good manners is something I don't come across here these days too often either and would hence become part of my curriculum, too. Furthermore, I would definitely encourage my students to playfully learn how to cook as to bring back an extinguishing art. Arts, languages, math, music, home economy, cooking, handicraft, dance, and religious education would be mandatory subjects all of which need to be taught somewhere out in nature away from the contemporary hectic pulse of life. As far as clothing, yes, my alumni would be wearing comfortable school uniforms made of natural fabrics because envy and jealousy are notoriously irritable to any progress in overcoming differences that are just not real. Bullying would have to be addressed if necessary although I'm quite positive that any form of harassment would eventually disappear with increasing spiritual awareness. Since small children are still very moldable, impressionable and good- natured, they would easily pick up on positive input. The next couple of generations would gradually bring more and more change to the table, and after 20 years we would clearly see the first few distinct signs of positive social overhaul. If we as adults fail to teach our kids how to generally modify life to the better, we'd better stand back and watch our children take over. Honestly, where are we standing now after decades of social decay? On dangerously rocky grounds, that's about right. Just yesterday I heard someone drop the remark that once the last church on his block was going out of business, the whole area would ultimately -just like the rest of the city- sink into crime, drugs and poverty. That tiny church was the last bit of straw to cling onto, so the man, after the school next door had been shut down as well. As of yet, we cannot change anything about the rotten circumstance that every aspect of our lives revolves around money one way or another. However, if we succeed in teaching the little ones that money is definitely not everything that matters in life, we will collectively speaking slowly but surely take a new and much more promising direction. Why not start today already? Lesson One is in fact simpler than you may think. Go ahead and show your kids the priceless value of committing one good deed a day which is in no way attached to money without expecting anything in return.
In order to take a step as paramount as to slowly reverse certain deeply encrusted negative social patterns, we will have to reconsider educating our off- spring while they are still flexible as far as teaching and adapting to new and fresh ways. Our kids are in fact the only way out of a multitude of dilemmas as the bearers of light into a much brighter future. We just need to teach them differently from what we've been used to. Let's think outside the box for a while. Spiritual awareness is something that we all ought to be working on, but up to a certain age kids seem to have a much more natural access to spirituality than adults. Therefore we should enhance this natural path by keeping them away from the narrow- minded ways we tend to perceive reality and by releasing them from those rigid stereotyped duties and chores. Instead we should let them be themselves as they are about to bond with fauna and flora first. Schools should be de- institutionalized and turned into a type of full day care centers where only the spiritually most advanced teachers are recruited for work. Of course, this would imply creating different schooling places for that new species of educators first. Those facilities would not require millions of dollars to maintain them but would be simply equipped and run by volunteers who are willing to work on a base of bartering. The new day care centers would be kept plain and simple to take the focus away from any monetary values which may easily confuse the young minds. The less pompous the surrounding, the less distraction and thus more time and energy to concentrate on the bare essentials of teaching. In my kind of school I would first and foremost start teaching the kids how to treat themselves and one another with respect since this to me is the primary milestone down the road of change. Good manners is something I don't come across here these days too often either and would hence become part of my curriculum, too. Furthermore, I would definitely encourage my students to playfully learn how to cook as to bring back an extinguishing art. Arts, languages, math, music, home economy, cooking, handicraft, dance, and religious education would be mandatory subjects all of which need to be taught somewhere out in nature away from the contemporary hectic pulse of life. As far as clothing, yes, my alumni would be wearing comfortable school uniforms made of natural fabrics because envy and jealousy are notoriously irritable to any progress in overcoming differences that are just not real. Bullying would have to be addressed if necessary although I'm quite positive that any form of harassment would eventually disappear with increasing spiritual awareness. Since small children are still very moldable, impressionable and good- natured, they would easily pick up on positive input. The next couple of generations would gradually bring more and more change to the table, and after 20 years we would clearly see the first few distinct signs of positive social overhaul. If we as adults fail to teach our kids how to generally modify life to the better, we'd better stand back and watch our children take over. Honestly, where are we standing now after decades of social decay? On dangerously rocky grounds, that's about right. Just yesterday I heard someone drop the remark that once the last church on his block was going out of business, the whole area would ultimately -just like the rest of the city- sink into crime, drugs and poverty. That tiny church was the last bit of straw to cling onto, so the man, after the school next door had been shut down as well. As of yet, we cannot change anything about the rotten circumstance that every aspect of our lives revolves around money one way or another. However, if we succeed in teaching the little ones that money is definitely not everything that matters in life, we will collectively speaking slowly but surely take a new and much more promising direction. Why not start today already? Lesson One is in fact simpler than you may think. Go ahead and show your kids the priceless value of committing one good deed a day which is in no way attached to money without expecting anything in return.
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