[Uplift]

Our 'modern' education system is actually a relic, left over from medievil times, and restrained and biased by that era's beliefs. Imagine an education system using techniques like Photo Reading, Meditation, Anthony Robbins, Personal Training, Accelerated Learning, NLP, Paraliminals, and the myriad of other successful learning methods under the 'self help' umbrella. All of these techniques recieve rave reviews from adults, yet aren't good enough for our kids? What is going on?
To me it is a situation beyond ludicrous. Sad even. Learning should be fun, children learn so easily and thrive when they have fun. Kids resist the present teaching methods. Look how they learn so easily from things like Sesame Street, Power Rangers, Ninja Turtles, Bay Blades, etc. They eagerly paticipate in these vehicles which teach them to spell, count, imagine, construct, deduce, ponder...effortlessly in comparison to the ridiculous medievel system. It is ridiculous that after twelve odd years of supposed 'education', people have to seek out 'self help' or 'self improvement' methods to be happy and successful.
Presently, from day one, children are taught to ignore their strongest, most powerful insights, intuitions and self knowledge, and truths. Every particle of their being is telling them to run, jump, climb, test, explore, laugh, laugh, laugh, chat, giggle, giggle, giggle, bond. Yet there they are, forced (and didn't that medievel era just love force) to be still, silent, and bored out of their skulls. Witness the fidgeting, whispering... children reduced to sneaking, contriving, just to chat and giggle with another person. Watch them pour out of school, at every break, free at last, free to be true children.
And that is day one...the pattern continues for the rest of their school lives. A child knows when he or she is hungry, they know when they need a drink, they know when they are tired, they know when they need to go to the toilet, yet all of these base instincts and intuitions, these connections to their individual, unique, special truth, are systematically broken down, and crushed out of them. It served the medievel ruling class very well. So why obese kids at school, drug epidemics at school, murder at school, guns at school, bullying at school, police patrols at school, depression at school? It couldn't possibly be our education system...not the mighty, hallowed halls of Wesminster tradition and fame!
A basic truth paraded around in the 'self help and improvement' world is the premise that doing the same thing over and over produces the same results. That change and different outcomes require different thought and action. Well tough luck kids, wear it, because all the adults are too busy doing self help and improvement seminars to be successful and fullfilled, living their dreams. You kids just shut up, stop fidgeting and whinging and get to school...and you better not fail either or you'll never get anywhere...and no, you can't go to the toilet...its not time, and anyway its been cordoned off by the police searching for clues and bullet shells.
How long are we going to let this idiotic situation persist. I think there's a procrastination seminar coming up.