Side Effects of The Present Education System ( depression ,anger, jealousy, unhappiness, wars)

 

“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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