Currently, the education system is a disgrace.
A helpful education would consist of many field and classroom trips. Students would practice concentrated observation of all that they see on these trips. Concentrated observation is a thought or feeling of no thought, as opposed to the aforementioned class discussion on feelings, which is feeling limited by thought. Trips then, would explore new areas of feeling.
When in a classroom, to study a subject a student would have as much say in the studying of it as anyone in the room. Exploring an unresolved subject often requires questions. Questions reflect a point an individual comes and grows from.
Professionals and teachers would not give answers before questions have been asked. The current method molds student thought toward those answers because they unnecessarily set up the class discussion.
Instead, teachers would become helpers to students in their self-created question and/or answer process. This way the new generation would be encouraged to take the most sincere path, instead of being unjustly molded by the ideas from the past.
Nobody professes a perfect life, free of unwanted jobs, unwanted feelings and bad relationships. This is not surprising since no one understands everything about the implicit quality of commonly shared feelings and experiences such as attachment, desire, love, relationships, awareness, fear, and conditions. Implicit quality means any connected variables which must always occur in an experience.
We should find out why implied variables occur, if the particulars must occur and what we think of them. Everything has an implicit factor variable, because everything in reality is interconnected. The implicit factors of anger could include divisiveness from others, a bad feeling in the body, excess thought or an obstacle to solving a problem. If we don't like the implicit factors we discover, finding them out can fundamentally change our lives.
Unless we change the current system, I advise students to drop out of school, or spend less time focused on school, to make time for these fundamental issues.
If we are our feelings, and we don't understand those thoughts and experiences, we don't understand who we are. This world needs people who understand who they are much more than people who think they understand algebra, history or anything. We can't know anything else when we don't know ourselves. The studying of any science to discover ourselves is irrelevant if we are not primarily relating science with our everyday feelings.
I feel that our ignorance makes us at fault for the atrocities of society. Our society could benefit from therapy, and this new school system would provide it. Any new idea needs bureaucratic application, but that is secondary to the idea.
This idea for a new educational system is a realistic and needed alternative to the typically irrelevant, self-perpetuating prescription for human disaster which is now called education.
People seem to care to help improve world conditions, but they aren't efficient in their methods.
I call for a new progressive movement.
Brant Skiles is a world issues special major senior.