What is missing from the education system? Heart, soul, breadth, passion, rigorous allegiance to facts, openness to a new spectrum of ideas, debate and wonder. Education has become a deadened teach-to-the-syllabus process of mind-numbing conformity overburdened with government interference and control; too afraid to challenge it's parents to allow it to achieve what they never experienced: a pursuit of excellence and rigour at all cost allowing the free expression of thought which can allow a society to be the frontline on the frontier of the future where our children will be living and creating a new world. There is a tragic loss of potentiality with each generation that fails to resolve this deficiency. Education has the power to help us all to realize the weak fallacies that underpin our cultural framework, sweep away the deadwood and allow the next generation to have the grounding and scope to develop the fresh perspectives that can lead us to a better outcome and give us the integrity to influence a sceptical world to move in a more progressive and unified trajectory. Until we reward excellence and the pursuit of the truth with an objective analysis of all our shortcomings as a people we will never allow the individual to unleash the powers of their minds and talents to build toward a better world. Teachers need to be the facilitators that fire the innate energy and wonder of children to open their minds and give them the world so they can put a constructive and reverential stamp upon it.
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