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Please tell us about the changes happening in the American public education system. Will it crumble and rebuild itself? How will it be different?
The first dynamic that is important to understand is that the system of public education, as it occurs in America and most of the world now, is based on stifling children. The system relies on children whose natural learning instincts have been stifled in order to educate. The way that education occurs can only be enacted upon children who have already been stifled. The system has evolved to work this way based on the institution of oppression in society.
It is also important to understand that the system itself, the system of public education itself, is being stifled by larger dynamics at play in the United States. It is a chain of oppression that forms a cycle. The system is oppressed and then the system oppresses children and then children grow up in the system to be adults who become oppressive themselves.
There is a fundamental dynamic here that has everything to do with Enlightenment and the larger changes occurring in humanity. This dynamic is the difference between how people behave when they believe they are good, and how they behave when they believe they are bad. When people believe they are good, they are naturally loving and cooperative. When people believe they are bad, or when they hold a deep sense of shame or criticism for themselves, they tend to be competitive and difficult. This difference is deeply tied to the education system. Many institutions across the world, including educational institutions, instill a sense of shame in people in order to give them motivation to “fix” that shame by behaving well. As you move through Enlightenment collectively, it will no longer be possible for society to benefit from this kind of oppression. People will need to find a deep sense of love or themselves in order to naturally behave well, and this requires that you let go of the oppressive methods of institutions that instill a sense that you are bad or unlovable.
For thousands of years, adults have oppressed children. This originally occurred when human beings were hurt in ways they did not heal, so they carried those wounds with them. A person developed twists and turns in their psyches based on having been hurt and not recovering. People lost parts of their capacity for love. When a person is hurt and carries with them something broken in their heart, they look for ways to act out that hurt in a misguided effort to feel better about him or herself and resolve the hurt. Unfortunately when someone does that, they hurt another person -- they extend the hurt they feel in their heart onto another person.
Of course in any given circumstance, people are more likely to target someone they perceive as weaker than they are, and this often includes children. Adults often hurt children in a misguided search for healing. When adults do not work to heal their own hearts, they often act out their own hurt upon the children around them. This occurs physically, verbally, energetically, and at all other levels. One example is when an adult moves a child’s body without the child's permission. This could be as simple as picking up and moving a child from one spot to another without first asking them or telling them what is going to happen – or it can be as complex as moving to a different city without giving the child enough information to make sense of the change. What happens for that child in that moment is their sense of their own physicality is disrespected or even completely denied. The sense that their body belongs to them or that they have some degree of control in what happens to their body is disregarded in that moment.
As most parents know, it is very easy to do this without noticing. When you are rushing and you move a child from one spot to another, you often do not think of what that might be like for the child. It is easy to make this mistake. Luckily, children have a natural way to express their emotions, release the hurt, and fully recover from these kinds of mistakes.
In society, when children are taught that they are powerless in the face of adults' agendas, a culture based on discipline must evolve -- a culture that requires children to be disciplined into certain kinds of behavior in order for the child to participate successfully in society. This can only occur when children are taught over time that they are something other than good, and therefore must discipline themselves to be good. Over time, the natural inclination of children to cooperate gets subverted.
On the other hand, when children have all of their needs met, when children are given the time and support to make sense of the world and to understand the consequences of their actions, all children naturally cooperate; they naturally reach out to one another, they naturally ask for help and they naturally offer help to those around them.
It is the basic setting for human beings to know that you are good and that you love each other. The current education system first creates an oppressive relationship between children and adults. It then, through that oppressive relationship, subverts the child's own sense of power and creates wounding in the child so that the child no longer naturally has the impulse to be helpful or cooperative. Then the system applies discipline in order to teach children to be cooperative and generous.
Instead of drawing a straight line from a child's open heart to their cooperative behavior, the system creates a loop, like a pretzel. As the system itself goes through difficult times, as humanity evolves away from tolerating oppression, it is as if that pretzel is being pulled tighter and tighter. The system itself is becoming stifled and that is the reason you are seeing it beginning to crumble. The American public education system will continue to crumble, and as that happens you have a choice. The choice must be made not only by those who are running the system, but also by all of you.
Every single person in the world, but particularly every citizen of the United States, is feeding the public education system in one way or another by ignoring it and allowing it to continue as it is or by enabling it. For some of you, you are trying to support change in the system. All of you are feeding energy into the system, even if you do not feel connected to it on an everyday basis. As an American citizen, you give money to support this system, you make votes that influence the system or you avoid making a vote, thereby influencing the system. There is no way for you to avoid being connected with this system.
All of you need to begin to look at two dynamics. One is the dynamic in your own personal life around the oppression of children. In order to move through Enlightenment, and in order to help create a world where there is a healthy education system for children, you must address the ways you were hurt as a child and find ways to heal that. You also need to address the ways that children are oppressed in your life, particularly if you interact with children. Find ways to interact with more respect for children while continuing to teach them how to behave appropriately in society. Find ways to provide discipline that do not rely on the message that a child is bad or unlovable. Find ways to inspire the natural tendency of children to cooperate based on their love for themselves and others. It is only by modeling this in everyday circumstances for children across the country that the way will open up for your education system to be re-founded upon the natural tendency of children to act out of love for self and others. The educational system itself will respond to this shift as it occurs in more individuals.
The second dynamic involves looking at your relationship to the institution of education. Collectively you will take one of two directions toward change. Either you all will choose to engage this more actively in the next five to ten years and you will begin a slow but steady evolution toward a healthier education system, or you will not choose to avoid this issue in it in the next five or ten years and it will indeed crumble.
At this time, more and more parents who able to are moving their children to alternative systems of education, including homeschooling, alternative schools, and private schools. This is creating an imbalance in the public education system in which those who are engaged in positive change are stepping away from the system, leaving the children in the public system even more surrounded by adults who are not engaging, whether by choice or because they do not have the resources to do so. This increases the polarization in the American system that separates those with material resources from those who have less.
When positive changes are enacted outside the system of public education in alternative programs, they can help shine a light on what does not work in the public system and inspire the public system to change for the better. Using the alternatives to lead more resources toward the public system will enable the system to change gracefully. However, if all people avoid dealing with the public system, the polarization will continue until the public education itself crumbles. There are drastically different outcomes forecast depending upon which of those two directions you take. This is one of those institutional changes that will change everything with how the progress of Enlightenment occurs for humanity.
You really do have a choice at this point. It is useful, if you are engaged in the education of children in one way or another in the U.S., to have alternative programs where you can explore and begin to build a new model for teaching children, but only if you use this to return to the public system and change it for the better. It is vitally important that you somehow stay connected to the public system and keep open space for the public education system to benefit from your efforts or your discoveries. It will not be useful for any of you to completely leave the public education system behind. In fact, even if you try to do that, ultimately you cannot. As an American citizen you are part of the public education system and you will live with the societal consequences of having that system crumble.
Ultimately the system will change, either through a disastrous failing of the public education system or through a slow, gradual evolution. After this five to ten year window, you will know which course you are on. It will be undeniable. If you are on the course for the disastrous crumbling, you will probably experience two to three generations of people in the U.S. who are severely undereducated. The whole system of employment and capitalism will shift undeniably according to this change. You will likely find continued polarization of the wealthy and the poor in the United States. As you can already see, this polarization is causing societal breakdown and it will continue to cause that. You will have more internal disagreements in society, and you will actually open up the potential for civil war in the next two to three generations if the public education system does indeed crumble. It truly will spell disaster for the United States -- a disaster you will recover from over the course of hundreds of years, but a disaster nonetheless.
If, on the other hand, all of you engage more deeply in the public education system, and all of you address within your own lives, your relationship with children, removing every form of oppression you can -- then what is likely to happen is that the slow, gradual shift in public education toward a more respectful relationship with children will shift the momentum in terms of how the system is valued by society. It will become more valued, it will become better funded, and it will become again more deeply tied to local communities. People in local communities will be more involved in their local schools rather than simply sending their children there on a daily basis. This in turn, will help propel forward what is already happening, which is that your system of employment, which is your system for negotiating money and power, will continue to move toward a more balance.
The economic collapse that you have seen and the further economic collapse that you will see is actually opening space where people are building a stronger middle ground for more American citizens to exist in a state of reasonable abundance. That relies on a more widely educated population and that is what will grow slowly as the system begins to be better valued. The system will become better valued as children are more highly valued and respected. It has to start with your individual relationships with children. When you build this sense of respect and love in the system that educates children, it inevitably grows into a society based on respect and love.
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