This my first post that I intended to publish but the longer I spent on it the more in depth it got and the longer is became. Ultimately, I decieded that it will never be finished until I write a book, meaning I will update this and continue to post it until it's finished.
I've always been weary on the importance of education. I didn't think that college or even high school was a significant part of life. Now that I'm in college, I feel that I made the right decision in coming.However, my position on the matter remains mostly unchanged.Truly you can't trust your own interpretation of knowledge to someone else, and absolutely not to many of my teachers that I have come across.
My first inclination that the business-like, standardized education had an unsettling atmosphere was when in fifth grade Mrs.Ford's class had an Einstein "actor" come in to speak to the class about himself. In my excitement I read in preparation the only book on Einstein that was available, a fifty page Einstein biography that I eventually discovered was significantly biased. It claimed he developed the atomic bomb, whereas his research on particle physics is what prompted development, of which Einstein had no part in. Einstein always believed that "education is that which remains after after one has forgotten everything he learned in schools" Quotes in their nature are not something that aspire to be remembered. What you want is the information portrayed, not what they said. Of course you should be confident in what they said by how they said it, understand the different ways that it can be interpreted. What a shame it would be to seem a fool after recognizing a source in the first place. I digress, my point is that his words have been something of a running thought in my mind for years.
Source: "http://www.buzzle.com/editorials/1-27-2005-64905.asp
In my experience as well, I have learned that not enough emphasis is put on the goals of education, or where the goals of education should reside. The purpose of teaching should be to receive and gain knowlege, or to understand concepts outside of time or politics. For example, the Kansas school system's Intelligent Design education. The premis being an equal share of both ideas in an effort equate fairness. Consequently, I just read a (heavily conservative) book about the media coverage in the Obama campaign, and the idea of the Fairness Doctrine. The Fairness Doctrine is a broadcast law promoting equal air-time being given to both conservative and liberal views in a network.
Source:http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/F/htmlF/fairnessdoct/fairnessdoct.htm http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/08/ AR2005110801211.html
In the Fairness Doctrine, the sad truth is over-involvement of the government in commercial affairs. I do agree with the Kansas Board of Education on this (only this one time, I'm looking at you Brown v. Board). What seems to be overbearing involvement or indoctrination is the honest will of the people with the state. Despite common belief the state is in fact more powerful than the country. The definition of a state being essentially just a very large community with it's pooled goals and values. Only Federal institutions are more powerful than the state, only because it involves the state itself along with the others in the union.That's how countries should be run. The Tenth Amendment itself claims all power is given to states unless they collectively claim that either everyone or nobody should have that power. The Eleventh Amendment even excercises the soverignity of the states by prohibiting the Federal government to prosecute individuals. This means that a criminal can jump from state to state but only be prosecuted by the state in the state in which the crime was commited. The reason you don't see criminals avoid prosecution this way is not because the borders are tighter within the states than along the intercontinental borders; the principle of extradition in which a state captures and returns the criminal to the offending state is. (the conditions of extradition vary but an example from our policy with Great Britian can be found here )In this way the state is treated like an honored kingdom, with the states paying respect to one another under no neccessary order other than their written word. And like a kingdom, it is defined by its people, whether they be laborers, artisans, or clerics. Ultimately, the view of the collective people is defined by the leader, who grew up in the environment of his people. That means the method of education in the people should not be contested by outsiders as long as the people do as they see fit for themselves. This means that the Kansas school board is not providing a diservice to it's denizens and are completely in their right to do so. They are giving an idea to counter the idea of equal importance and equal uncertainty.
Source: http://www.law.cornell.edu/anncon/
Kansas' education curriculum is not the problem. The problem is how they would implement it. As will always happen, information will eventually, under no concequence or supervision, become biased. I suspect that the will of man is not to seek truth, but to create truth; to make his will law. If someone believe that only white people are people, then you would not be told that all other people are not people, but you would never be told that all other people are people. It's the directed misinformation, or withholding of information. Such a method of education is boundless as the area becomes more desolate and inhospitable.
My purpose of learning is to make myself better. It's not to create a gap between my brothers and sisters and all my peers, but just for the sake of it. I cannot put into words how valuable the mind is. It should go without saying the our conscience is the most valuable thing that makes us human, if in fact to only thing. And just as all things grow and shrink so does the mind. However, there are oblects that can grow infinitely and creatures that can grow infinintely, such as ivy. This concept of conservation of energy/motion/forces is all the same principle, meaning whenever something changes, a change is present in the opposite direction. When plants get too big they will falter and whither. When planets get too big they become inhospitable and attract more and more until it destroyes itself.
Whether it be the same occurance happening in both directions to the same concept of nature is coincidence. I say coincidence because matter takes the absence of space, so me being here is getting rid of the nothing that I had to move to get here. I conceptualize it by thinking that the movement of space itself, the expansion of the universe, is time itself. This means that existance through space exists in space itself, almost like leaving a footprint of imprint of events. And the reason time progresses is because the event is moving farther away from the each other from the initial velocity of the event.
So there are an infininte number of events between all events being that there is a solid stream of events between event A and event B. The rotation and revolution of Earth is really more of a measurement of time than a motion of time. There are calculations however that state that the universe is moving faster than the speed of light in it's expansion.However accurate that calculation can be I predict would neccessitate existing outside of time, or travelling equally fast in a compression of space and then measuring the distance between stars to discover the speed. It is my sound belief that every aspect of the Universe is cyclical, because there has never been an occurance I have seen that contradicts that. I do say, however, that outside of reality/space-time there can be an absence of time or cycle of events. However, from any perspective in our observable realm there is a perpetual sequence.
