BEFORE2030 - A LIVABLE FUTURE For people, planet, and all life
REVAMP PUBLIC EDUCATION
Completely! I had to learn the co-sign rule in high-school, that was very stressful, and I’ve never used it in my life of 73 years, I wonder how many others found this? I thought school had become more relevant in recent years, but young students tell me it hasn’t, and they are still taught that fascist, unjust, merciless civilizations, like the Egyptians, are ‘great’ civilizations. So, a child might ask, “If I go home and force my neighbors to pile up all the rocks in my garden into the shape of a pyramid, will I be great?”
I was raised in England and was taught that the history of the royal families was my history. The history of the most murderous, oppressive people in the land was my history. I used to ask, where is the history of my family? This was viewed by the teacher as being insubordinate. In this fast-moving time, it’s going to be even harder to educate for the moment.
Public school education appears to be in a heightened crisis since the end of the Pandemic: Charter schools gutting the public-school budgets, teachers leaving on mass having awoken to their predicament, culture attacks coming from many quarters, under-funded institutions, etc. We are recording large dropout and truant numbers in schools also. Youth unemployment has skyrocketed in China with so many graduates. Where does all this end up? Will we see radical changes in the near future?
Sir Ken Robinson, educator, said there’s a revolution underway tied to technology and population growth, consequences as yet unknown. Again, something localized may be in the model change, not federally mandated, leaving so many kids behind. Even college futures are unpredictable right now with students questioning the return on such high costs.
It’s interesting that Ken Robinson equates the current education system to industrialized agriculture, touted by some as a success, without acknowledging the huge problems it’s caused to the environment and that it’s unsustainable. He says our social systems suffer from the same problems. It’s time to reinvent.
What if the focus of our education system helps us live in our immediate environment? Something to do with the houses we live in, landscapes, utilities, built environment, neighborhoods, waste water, the effects of climate change, and less corporation dependent family provisioning, less dependent on worldwide supply chains, educating for a true sense of place and our interactions with it. What would that look like? My proposal read: 5 – 12 years old, Self-reliant, Systems Thinking Education.
Hope without action is 'hopium.' Despair without contemplation of solutions is defeatist and lazy. And, in fact,
in some circumstances, nothing less than disingenuous.
Us late moderns are hopelessly unskilled to meet our upcoming future. Digital knowledge alone is not sufficient for self-reliance in the physical world that supports us. Could we, 'be the change we want to see?' And, if not, reskill for that?
And while we're at it, we need education and rehabilitation initiatives within the entire industrial prison complex and not just punishment culture.
Further info:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzvuJrVXNW8 (Sir Ken Robinson)
Completely! I had to learn the co-sign rule in high-school, that was very stressful, and I’ve never used it in my life of 73 years, I wonder how many others found this? I thought school had become more relevant in recent years, but young students tell me it hasn’t, and they are still taught that fascist, unjust, merciless civilizations, like the Egyptians, are ‘great’ civilizations. So, a child might ask, “If I go home and force my neighbors to pile up all the rocks in my garden into the shape of a pyramid, will I be great?”
I was raised in England and was taught that the history of the royal families was my history. The history of the most murderous, oppressive people in the land was my history. I used to ask, where is the history of my family? This was viewed by the teacher as being insubordinate. In this fast-moving time, it’s going to be even harder to educate for the moment.
Public school education appears to be in a heightened crisis since the end of the Pandemic: Charter schools gutting the public-school budgets, teachers leaving on mass having awoken to their predicament, culture attacks coming from many quarters, under-funded institutions, etc. We are recording large dropout and truant numbers in schools also. Youth unemployment has skyrocketed in China with so many graduates. Where does all this end up? Will we see radical changes in the near future?
Sir Ken Robinson, educator, said there’s a revolution underway tied to technology and population growth, consequences as yet unknown. Again, something localized may be in the model change, not federally mandated, leaving so many kids behind. Even college futures are unpredictable right now with students questioning the return on such high costs.
It’s interesting that Ken Robinson equates the current education system to industrialized agriculture, touted by some as a success, without acknowledging the huge problems it’s caused to the environment and that it’s unsustainable. He says our social systems suffer from the same problems. It’s time to reinvent.
What if the focus of our education system helps us live in our immediate environment? Something to do with the houses we live in, landscapes, utilities, built environment, neighborhoods, waste water, the effects of climate change, and less corporation dependent family provisioning, less dependent on worldwide supply chains, educating for a true sense of place and our interactions with it. What would that look like? My proposal read: 5 – 12 years old, Self-reliant, Systems Thinking Education.
Hope without action is 'hopium.' Despair without contemplation of solutions is defeatist and lazy. And, in fact,
in some circumstances, nothing less than disingenuous.
Us late moderns are hopelessly unskilled to meet our upcoming future. Digital knowledge alone is not sufficient for self-reliance in the physical world that supports us. Could we, 'be the change we want to see?' And, if not, reskill for that?
And while we're at it, we need education and rehabilitation initiatives within the entire industrial prison complex and not just punishment culture.
Further info:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzvuJrVXNW8 (Sir Ken Robinson)
