Soap Box Part 1

So one of the many things I'm really passionate about is education.

It just occurred to me that one of the many things with education is that when we teach it is with the intention that information flows unidirectional. This is what we know and this is how it is. As any of you know who I've talked to about knowledge is that when I go to a scientific meeting and listen to talks on the current research one of the first things I think is, "What? We didn't already know this?"

I mean COME ON! When we teach we should be informing students, Hey this is what we know but this is what we DON'T know about the same idea. The list of don't knows will be more mind boggling than what we do know.

How do we expect the next generation of civilians, politicians, educators and researchers to solve a problem if we lead them to think that the only way to solve a problem is with the solutions of the past? The fact the solutions of the past have not solved cancer, world hunger, poverty, heart disease.....and the list goes on just reinforces the need for more creative thinking and better education than is currently in place.

Fear seems to always come up as a beneficial does of reality but at the same time fear can also render people unable to do anything. We should not be instilling fear of the unknown into a society that is faced with more unknowns than any other. People are innately afraid of what they don't know or understand. One of the best way to correct for this would be enlightening young impressionable minds that we know much less than we are informing them.

Propelling students into the unknown armed with the knowledge that we've survived this long without the answers to the greatest mystery's of life seems to me the best way to help us further society without hindering creativity causing mass hysteria along with a dysfunctional society.

We are all going to hell but hey, good thing I don't think such things exist.