“Education
is needed to be peaceful, optimistic and happy. The goal of all education is to
help children find happiness in life. Education is not imparted just for being
successful or earning money to support responsibilities. Education is given so
that children learn to think and reason by using their brains more than their
bodies, as distinguished from animals”
Education is encouraged in today’s world for as many
as can be reached by the literate society but peace and happiness are not as
accredited. If you can afford it, have
conducive family circumstances or are supported by the government, you do not
opt to not get educated but you often take the choice to remain angry and
become violent as education is supposed to get you money and acknowledgement.
In today’s world, money is considered as the measure
of approval and success even if the process of earning money makes you
negative. Anything that is paid for by money is supposed to be considered as
motivational by the majority of people who identify happiness with consumable
items and aim for satisfaction through buying cars, mobiles, jewels and
clothes. However, happiness does not increase by buying products as much as it
does not increase by playing with toys as children.
The factors which increase inner happiness are
sidelined in the race for earning money which creates a society which is
constantly complaining of unhappiness, depressions, diseases and misfortunes;
only because the focus of thinking is on the negative aspects of evolution and
creating short term satisfaction while ignoring the needs for peace and
harmony.
This lop-sided focus of thinking towards using money
as the measure of success arises from childhood, where success is measured by
getting marks which gets transferred to earning money in adulthood.
There is much less attention given to feeling happy
while working in childhood or feeling positive while earning money in
adulthood. However, happiness is a result of accumulation of positive feelings
which release positive hormones in the body, which, subsequently, create
satisfaction in the soul.
In contrast with the presumption that accredited
success automatically leads to happiness; the feelings of happiness,
contentment, joy & excitement which arise during working in any activity
are the key ingredients for the continuation of satisfaction after the job is
done.
The outcome of any activity is felt as positive if the
feelings being pursued during the act are more positive than negative, on an
average. If, during work, compromise is more than satisfaction, people are
bound to feel depressed as negative hormones will increase more than positive
hormones in the body.
Though there are several good effects of the present
education system, there is negligible attention given to creation of positive
feelings which would lead to evolution of consciousness towards a more peaceful
world. The inadequate method of measurement of happiness by measuring success as
good marks is spreading negative thinking by its excessive focus on
quantitative development over development of qualitative understanding that
overtime, leads to positive thinking in human consciousness.
With increasing emptiness in hearts and violence in
the world, there is an urgent need to minimize the negativity arising as side
effect of the enforcement of education; for accentuating the positive benefits.
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, diluting the positive work
of the successful, Since 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.
However, 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 create more. Human beings can 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.
For further reading, please refer to the book - SPIRITUALITY IN EDUCATION , chapter 2
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