Is Our Education System Working?

Is our educational system really working to promote positive progress?

The problems we are faced with today are the results of unethical leadership. Our business and political leaders have had the best education, yet many would sacrifice human wellbeing end the environment for the love of money.

Growing up in Soweto, near Johannesburg, South Africa has taught me to value “ubuntu,” or “I am because we are.”

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Ethical problems can only be solved if the leaders are humanistically centered, have a love of nature, and agree not to enrich themselves unethically. This is the call to all leaders in the world to understand the purpose of life, which has been outshone by the illusionary world of money.

Who would hurt others for personal gain?

• Political leaders who caused or are still causing human suffering.
• Businesses and business people who promote harmful products that are of danger to human health for the love of money.
• People who oppressed my ancestors by making them to feel inferior because of their pigmentation.

Now, almost everyone in the list above had an opportunity to go school to acquire education. So, is our educational system really working to promote positive progress?

I am lectured by highly educated people who can’t even manage their own lives. Medical Doctors who preach that smoking is harmful and yet they smoke like there’s no tomorrow. Problems like global warming are the result of an education system where people studied how to manipulate nature irresponsibly.

Such severe problems as global warming and poverty are ultimately the result of our ignorance of our own essential nature, which is universal and the source of infinite energy and intelligence. The ignorance of one’s own self is the basis of all the problems, shortcomings in life.

Scientists have provided some obvious technical answers. Global warming is caused by greenhouse gas emissions and the solution to the dilemma of global warming is to reduce emissions via improved technologies, policies, and regulations where necessary. (One of the most recent ideas in the U.S. along these lines is a change in the federal tax code to encourage the use and development of alternate energy sources by corporations).

The solution to all the challenges is to have a system of education that gives completeness to the curriculum so that students coming out of the educational institutions will be fully developed and completely responsible citizens. Students must be brought up in the values of life, which is developed in higher awareness and understanding.

I learned to value ubuntu growing up helping my grandmother in her garden. Our education system fills our brain with knowledge, but not our hearts with compassion or love. Ubuntu is the pillar of all morality, peace and development. Our education system must develop the mind, spirit, and body of a student.

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