Negative Side Effects of the Present Education System
The education
system of today glorifies success over happiness; leading to a complex
situation wherein people try to be successful to be happy; but do not attain
the happiness they seek from their efforts through being successful and hence,
become disillusioned overtime, leading to increasing depressions and violence
in societies.
As long as success
is pursued blindly by promoting competition in childhood, it justifies
increasing of happiness in self by reducing happiness of others; thus
justifying corruption and promotion of inequalities amongst adults.
Anger and negative
feelings amongst those defeated rise and the energy of jealousy/unhappiness
spreads and dilutes the positive efforts of the successful; because all human
energy is connected. Jealousy, wars and manipulations which ravage the defeated
minds, often create more harm than the good effects created by success.
To understand why
success has become important over happiness, we need to understand how
education evolved from a need of survival carried over from our animal ancestors.
Evolution of Education - From Animal Mindset
to a Human Mindset
Education
represents the development of human life over animal life, and is the most
important factor which distinguishes human beings from animals.
Animals often feel
helpless against circumstances because their brain is less developed, unlike
the human brain. Animals cannot grow resources as they live only in the present
moment and have no future visions, no ability to abstract words from pictures
or analyze in logical or abstract steps. Animals cannot reason about the WHYs
or think of the HOWs. Since, animals
cannot read or write or imagine/ co-create abundance, animals have genuine
fears of survival.
Hence, animals are justified in racing for survival
and killing for competition for reasons such as fear, food or self-defense.
However, human
beings are not justified in becoming competitively brutal, racing for money or
using violence because their minds have the capacity to sustain the body
without using rudimentary methods of survival as the animals use.
The development of
literacy represents the complexifying of human existence over animal existence
in all areas of life. Literacy has improved life associated with survival,
production of resources, money, counting, exchange of goods and services,
creating technology, inventions, and has also, led to increased development of
the creative brain in areas other than the concept of surviving in the animal world.
The spread of education has facilitated spiritual development of the brain and
manifested portals of expression such as painting, dance, music, evolution of relationships,
literature, history, geography etc.
However, though, education has evolved technology, it
has remained primitive by intention and animal-like in its execution. The
stress on competition, scarcity consciousness and compromising in fear for survival
has had negative effects on general peacefulness in society. The development of
literacy has not been not able to neutralize the need to overpower others by
increasing optimism, compassion and peacefulness more than the need for negative
thinking and helplessness.
The present debate
is between the opposing thinking patterns of a survival consciousness and an
evolutionarily higher abundance consciousness which has a higher positive
thought frequency. Positive thinking seeks to spread education such that the
negative effects of competition are transcended by a focus on abundance &
benefits of human life over animal life with the understanding that animal-like
needs of violence and competition are harmful and reduce spread of happiness in
human terms.
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