Aligning Education With the Future

0:01 Some years ago, some parents in the USA had an interesting conversation with their local elementary school administrator. They were concerned about the type of education their children would receive, so they set up a meeting to interview the administrator with the idea that they were prepared to undertake home schooling but did not feel competent themselves to teach some of. The more. Technical Subjects such as mathematics or science, nor the character forming subjects such as art or music. They were also concerned about the question of socialization of the children. If they were too isolated, the Seminole question they. Asked was.

0:45 Whether the administrator could realistically affirm? That the. School was teaching the future rather than the past in terms of preparing the children for life in the modern world. The administrator admitted that their entire curriculum was based in the past and. Realistically, they. Were not actually preparing children for the world that everyone could see was taking shape for the future. As a result of that conversation, the parents and the school developed a new model where the students would be homeschooled but would be scheduled into. Specific classes that the. School could provide. Without formal.

1:27 Enrollment and without graduating from the school, the children received the benefit of both aspects, while the school had the opportunity to observe students who were clearly. Awake. Motivated. To learn and forward-looking in the way they. Dealt. With issues, everyone felt that the program thus devised was a step forward. Our educational systems and even parental expectations are set to make children fit in. To society and thus. We inculcate. The habits and world view prevalent at the. Time which? Automatically act. As an.

2:08 Impediment to the process of development and evolutionary change. We expect children to be what their parents have been, and anything new or different meets with resistance, both from the society and from the parents who are afraid of the child potentially failing in the society. Or being. Different and thus not accepted. Children carry. These expectations into their youth and later into their adult life. In many cases, dreams and ideas they had get pushed aside and they take on duties and relationships as expected and suffer from depression.

2:50 Boredom. And a sense of purposelessness. Instead of moving the entire society forward, we are fixated on maintaining the status quo, regardless of its limitations, drawbacks, and obvious failures. Today we see a new generation of children being born who clearly have a different vision and purpose. Even at a very early age. One is reminded of Sri Ro Bindo's vision in Savitri, a legend and a symbol quote. I saw the omnipotence flaming pioneers over the heavenly verge which turns towards life, come crowding down the amber stairs of birth, forerunners of a divine multitude out of the path.

3:39 So the morning star, they came into the little room of mortal life. I saw them cross the twilight of an age, the sun eyed children of a marvellous dawn, the great creators with wide brows of. Calm the. Massive barrier Breakers of the world and wrestlers with destiny in her lists of will, the labourers in the quarries of the gods, the messengers of the incommunicable, the architects of immortality. And he goes on their tread. One day shall change the suffering earth, and justify the light on nature's face. End Quote.

4:24 Savitri, a legend and assemble book 3 can't of four pages 343 to 344. The mother writes quote. This is what it should be instead of making children ordinary with that dull, vulgar common sense which becomes an inveterate habit and. When something. Is going well. Immediately brings up in the being the idea. Oh, that. Won't last when somebody is kind the impression oh, he will change when one is capable of. Doing something? Oh, tomorrow I won't be able to do it so well. This is like an acid A. Destructive acid.

5:07 In the being which takes away. Hope. Certitude, confidence in future possibilities when a child is full. Of enthusiasm? Never. Throw cold water on it. Never tell him. You know, life is not like that. You should always encourage him, tell him yes, at present things are not always like that, they seem ugly. But behind this there is a beauty that is trying to realize itself. This is what you should love and draw towards you. This is what you should make the object of your dreams, of your ambitions. And if you do this when you are very.

5:47 Small you. Have much less difficulty than if later on you have to undo. Undo all the bad effects of a bad education. Undo that kind of dull and vulgar common sense. Which means that you expect nothing. Good from life. Which makes it. Insipid. Boring. And contradicts all the hopes, all the so-called illusions of beauty. On the contrary, you must tell a child, or yourself if you are no longer quite a baby, everything in me that seems unreal, impossible, illusory, that is what is true.

6:28 That is what I must cultivate. When you have these aspirations, oh not to be always limited by some incapacity, all the time held back by some bad will, you must cultivate within you this certified certitude that that is what is essentially true and that is what must be realized. End Quote. Reference Sri Aurobindo and the Mother Powers within, Chapter 16, Body, pages 125 to 126.