When a baby cries, the whole world runs to aid him/her and check that s/he is fine: when the baby laughs, everybody laughs next to him/her; when the baby is hungry s/he lets his/her mother know the need s/he has…A baby becomes the attention of the environment because s/he doesn’t judge those who carry or hold him/her. 

Everything changes when the baby grows up and starts listening to the adult world who dictates what s/he can’t do; who says everything is impossible, who tells him/her s/he’s not valuable enough and that s/he has to be strong to face reality. It’s within that psycho-emotional repression that this kid develops to face the world that’s waiting for him/her to become a qualified, useful and expected working hand instead of becoming a mind that thinks about goals to achieve his/her dreams. 

At the young age of six, children start with the elementary school; waking up early is the first requirement to be on time and start with the first subjects before lunch, which seems like a relief as long as you’re part of the popular group everyone loves; otherwise, it’s another bitter taste of an inevitable feeling of rejectment.

It never made any sense to me, the memorization of events that happened more than 100 years ago. I believe that the purpose of keep doing this is not to break with the habit of educating proud nationalists who know how to defend the border that defines the country they assimilate as theirs; a nation where there were and still occurs murders, killings and tragedies.

I still can’t understand why do children have to learn the limits of every country, memorize the existing rivers and learn the capitals of their entire nation or  those of the other nations who are part of the world; when in many of those places the wildfire, vegetation, jungle and forests are disappearing due to the severe impact of the climate change.   

According to The World Health Organization close to 800,000 people commit suicide every year in several countries of the world. I’m certain that the biggest fear of the human beings is the sense of dissociation they experience, that isn’t related to their country of origin; this thought comes from the feeling of rejection of living in a place where we’re subliminally forced to be like others and this fact impedes us from connecting  with our authentic self, instead we seek to become an unreachable being. 

“Before teaching children how to read, we’ve to help them learn what love and truth is.”  

Mahatma Gandhi.

What’s the future of the new generations?  

It’s difficult to predict the world’s end, but if we continue ruled by the same educational system that forces us, we’ll keep evolving on the wrong path, one that’s far away from who we are and what we wish for; because everything we’ve been taught by it, is far from how things really are, and we remain loyal to a conditioning truth. 

  • According to the United Nations (UN) the most dangerous place for a woman is her own house; this happens among other reasons, because until now there are no school subjects related to conscious love, ‘cause if they were implemented, girls and boys could contribute more compassionately to each other and they wouldn’t grow up thinking that love is something they can only find on the outside; that way, society wouldn’t have to deal with 87 thousand women murdered on the hands of their couples, who they perceived them as the love of their life.      
  • I still believe that if the educational system helped children with activities that lead them to believe in themselves, they could connect with their happiness and stop seeing it as a goal; otherwise, the 250 million people that according to the UN have consumed any kind of drug in the world will increase if we don’t attend the causes, and those new generations once again will go after the use of cocaine as the only option to connect with happiness or they’ll choose the use of heroin to feel free of the need of being perfect; because if at their home or school it’s impossible for them  to learn this then, when will they do it? 
  • I still believe that if there were school subjects such as emotional language; children would know how to recognize their emotional states and they wouldn’t feel embarrassed about how they feel, that way they would learn how to build their own emotional intelligence in a way they are able to stop living emotional relationships and start relating with others through consciousness. 
  • I still believe that if there were classes about environmental geography in schools children would be educated to take more care of the environment, animals, water, nature etc., And they would be guided to understand how the impact of their actions affect the world they’re living in, because it’s not about changing the current generations, which are already manipulated, it’s about transforming those that can give another sense to the world. 
  • According to UNESCO there are 758 millions of illiterate adults in the world, people whose presence also has an impact; as Nelson Mandela once said: “Education is the most powerful weapon you can use to change the world” and I believe that, without education, there can’t be consciousness at all. 

What’s the solution? 

If the systems under which we are educated remain the same, we’re going to get more generations mentally oppressed, instead of free minds that contribute with positive changes to the evolution of the earth. 

If the educational systems accept the creation of new ways of teaching, we would make inclusion a habit and differences would no longer be a problem; if education provides spaces to help children to understand and develop their talents, these children could use them in the benefit of others and not in harm of the world, oriented by the deep repression of feeling unworthy. 

We should let children choose what they want to learn and make of the required school subjects something enjoyable; because responsibility starts on the way we perceive life and the most important test consists on accepting what we are without feeling fear about what the others might say about us or feeling hurt for not fitting into the stereotypes the system demands; in the end, life’s just a game we’re going to lose someday. 

Let’s make the educational systems involve programs about guiding children in the management of their emotions, thoughts and attitudes so they can develop their wisdom and learn how to use it to choose where they wanna be; stop asking children what’s what they want to be when they grow up, because that’s part of a label that only segments and conditions them; let’s help them discover in which places they work better; let’s allow them perceive themselves as complete beings because they’re capable of achieving fundamental changes; ultimately the main purpose of everyone in this world is spreading the love through everything we experience; otherwise, we’ll keep dreaming of a better world while we remain seated watching how everything ends.   

With love and service, Shary ChavLó ∞