THE FUTURE
All we shall ever have are words.
All we shall ever possess of any value throughout our entire lives is contained within words, so let us look closely at them.
What are words.
Every human word is an individual idea, ideas that we combine to create or explain what we know or what we think.
Ideas that may be simple or complicated, ordinary or bizarre useful or harmful. All human knowledge is contained within words, numbers though they may be precise are no more then words, our best explanations are possible with the correct use of words.
Our subconscious mind stores and delivers those words at will in order to give explanation or make inquiry throughout our lives.
Only by the use of written words can we store the precise meaning of the ideas we individually consider, every thing that happens to us or others takes place somewhere at sometime, where and when individually whether we recognise it or not we are all on a personal voyage of discovery.
The importance of words within the human condition can never be overstated. Reading from the prologue of Captain Cook by Tony Horwitz, he quotes from the journal of Captain James Cook
`(Ambition leads me further then any other man as been before me, but as far as I think it is possible for any man to go)`
Proud as I am to be from the same county and country and world as captain cook I am stirred by both his words and deeds.
My thoughts on the human condition are influenced from where we are, after a century described by Isaiah Berlin as the must horrific in the history of humanity, a century where he lived from nine years after its inception until three years before its close giving him both the time and the perception to write an explanation of philosophy and humanity concurrent with his century.
(The goal of philosophy is always the same, to assist men to understand themselves and thus operate in the open and not wildly in the dark.)
(Injustice, poverty, slavery, these may be cured by reform or revolution, but men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible.)
At sixty five years of age there is no time to look at the past only time to prepare for the future, my mistakes the worlds mistakes are history we do not have to repeat history only learn from it, individually we have in a modern world to absorb vast amounts of inconsequential knowledge, we need tools to deal with that knowledge, not only inconsequential knowledge which is peripheral to our existence but vital knowledge that enables individuals and societies to live in peaceful co-existence.
We learn naturally about everything we do from speaking to the highest achievements that humans are capable of, our personal potential in good health is virtually unlimited, only time and personal experience limit what we can achieve individually.
In combination with each other working with modern technology we are capable of building a fair world providing sufficient food and adequate housing as is necessary.
We need to exploit the natural resources that are available to us utilising the world’s non-renewable resources with respect.
The worlds greatest and most valuable resource is renewable, the human mind, by mans ingenuity every possible idea can be explored and utilised we are still in the educational Stone Age with provision and application of universal education.
Political will is lacking
I remain with James Cook and Isaiah Berlin on a journey of exploration we can longer leave education in the hands of past experience, that is not experiential every child needs to read and speak if it is to develop normally, symbol recognition in a multi dimensional manner is essential the first official part of the
One percent of vital knowledge we have to be taught early in our lives.
It is as natural for a human to learn as it is to breath, provided we arrange learning alongside practical demonstration, at an advanced stage something’s may be considered, just as you are considering this statement without reflection, without experience and without intellectual curiosity, obviously there is a better way of doing everything, but with human behaviour standard practise is simple it requires no intellectual application.
Education in its present manifestation is sadly lacking, it is failing the human race, most of us live in poverty, many of us waste half our lives learning, the cost of public education is difficult for countries with little resources to sustain in its present mode.
Time taken to teach children that have become disenchanted with education not only slows down their potential development in practical experience but it takes up others time and resources that would be better used else ware
If new models of education are not to be thought through, and developed as concepts in future education on these pages where are they to be considered?
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