THE PROBLEMS WITH MODERN MEDICINE AND STANDARDIZED EDUCATION
Modern American politics and Western medicine are quite similar in the way they currently function. In short, each seeks to mask symptoms rather than address and possibly correct the problem. Stated in biblical terms, American politicians and doctors would rather enslave people who come to them for help by consistently giving fish to eat instead of teaching how to catch fish that they may feed themselves and no longer need help from anyone.
In the medical field, medical doctors generally never examine the cause of the patient’s disease; they merely address the many symptoms that accompany the disease, seeking to alleviate them.
In the world of politics, especially as it pertains to education of the young, the usual mode of action is to keep applying bandages to the symptomatic wounds that appear in the educational system. Instead of examining the reasons why a child is not learning or even acting up in class or getting in trouble, the system will usually just punish the child. Well, what good does that do? None.
Instead of learning, behaving, and being otherwise productive and happy, the child is grinded in a mill of standardized idiocy that runs counter to his natural curiosity which invariably leads to the development of a psychological disorder. The child then comes to hate ‘learning’ (because he isn’t actually learning anything of value) and hates to try to learn for he knows he will fail at some point and failing will bring punishment.
He refuses to behave in class because he has no motivation to do so. He naturally rebels against a system of ‘learning’ in which no one learns. And so disruptions of the daily teaching routine continue as this is the only way he can get any feedback whatsoever, albeit a negative feedback. With his newly acquired mental disorder he will see no other way to get any attention he so desperately needs, so he becomes a ‘trouble maker’ or a ‘problem child’ or in the new Nazi-like medical jargon, he becomes a case for drug treatment because he is ‘attention deficit’ (how absurd to use jargon from the political-financial world to describe a simple mental problem). All the while, the educational system never questions the possibility that what they offer in the way of ‘education’ is anything but that, and therefore should garner no one’s attention.
Either rarely or never do those in charge of the educational system ever examine much less implement newer systems of education as found in foreign nations whose children routinely score better than their American counterparts. Generations-long indoctrination has led these so-called ‘authorities’ to believe that their way is best simply because they think they live in the greatest nation on earth, which just so happens to have some of the stupidest children on earth.
They may address the symptoms all they wish, punishing the children even more, even prosecuting the parents for not conforming to their rules, forcing children into dress codes (isn’t this what the military does?), requiring children to wear Identification tags with assigned numbers (isn’t that what prisons do?), etc., etc., etc.
The educational system as it is will never work. And thank God it is breaking apart at the seems even now. Otherwise our nation, the so-called ‘land of the free’ will never be free because every child who is indoctrinated (oops, I meant educated) will never have been exposed to the concept of personal freedom.
It was discovered long ago by a small number of wise people that the best way to educate children into any subject whatsoever is to just let them study it when the wish. And if they have no interest in a subject (such as basket weaving) then there is to be no requirement for such. Perhaps the most important subject a child needs right away is to learn to communicate effectively in his native language, reading and writing to a level of excellence. From there, a child can learn anything they wish if they will just read about it. Why else did the ancients place so much value on great libraries around the world? Because if anyone wishes to learn what is in the library, they need only get a free library card and visit at leisure. How simple.
This is the proper way of education within the Will of God. Teach children only what they want to know, when they want to know it. There is no need to force them to learn something out of sync with their own ability to learn. In due time (and a very short time at that), their own curious desire to know any subject will manifest itself. And the ‘authorities’ will be relieved to know that if we stop meddling with a child’s natural curiosity to learn, always forcing it (learn it now!), stifling it (learn it later!) and constricting it (that is forbidden…you don’t need to know that!), then a surprising number of children will want to learn and keep learning. Eventually it will be seen that a child’s natural curiosity to learn will result in their learning even more than what is required by the state!
Allowing education to flow naturally, each according to his ability and desire, is the only way for anyone to learn anything. This is the only proper way for education to flow and produce incredible results. This should be the model for all schools, even colleges.
To date, the author has learned of the existence of only three schools that offered what is just described (or close to it).
The Waldorf, the Sudbury, and the University of Virginia as originally founded by Thomas Jefferson. The reader is encouraged to read up about these splendid systems of exemplary education.
All else are corrupt institutions that were damned from the start, and therefore doomed to fail. They are failing now. Want proof? How many school shootings have you heard of in the last year? Somehow, my gut instinct tells me that if a system of education produces students who are hell bent on murdering their fellow classmates, then perhaps the system isn’t working after all—and perhaps never really did function as advertised in the first place.
Case closed.
And as for the multi-billion dollar Medical Industry? Since it is currently a mostly corrupt institution…reread the last paragraph.
