Dumbing down our children–Day 405

 

Between the 23rd of July to the 3rd of August there were 2 articles published on the Daily mail. 

The one article showing how the Smartphones generation is dumbing down the children and within that the important of Vocabulary and Language and the second article about why teaching children how to spell is no longer require in an area where the smartphone auto-correct the user's spelling.

 

Here is the reference:

 

1. iPad generation 'will learn fewer words' as oral tradition of passing on knowledge is dying out

 

"Text messages, emails and using computers to learn could be stunting children’s vocabulary, experts fear.

 

That is because our brains are hardwired to learn new words when we hear others use them in everyday conversation.

 

But learning with smartphones, tablets and computers, instead of listening to a teacher or parent, means young people are not being given the chance to hear a wide range of words, experts say…"

 

"…Dr Catani’s research suggests that children who learn from on-screen images, rather than listening to conversation, will also find it harder to take in vocabulary"

 

 

2. Stop teaching children how to spell because smartphones can do it for them, says academic in attack on traditional teaching

 

"…Spelling lessons should be scrapped because children can correct mistakes on their mobile phone or computer, a university professor has claimed.

 

Professor Mitra said in an interview with the Times that emphasising spelling and grammar in the classroom is: 'a bit unnecessary because they are skills that were very essential maybe 100 years ago but they are not right now…"

 

 

The children are the products of what we as society accept and allow and we as a society are directly responsible for the dumbing down of our children. Here understand, there are multiple dimensions involves for instance, you cannot expect a parent to not stand in alignment to the society accepted codes as that would affect their children's social status and we all know how mean children can be to one another. That means that if in a class of 30 kids for instance, a parent put their foot down and would not buy their child the I-pad that everyone else have, the child would feel lacking in comparison to their peers and in many cases, the majority would take down the kid that is lacking and that would cause psychological issues that would influence the child for their entire life on a subconscious level.

 

So we as a society, have embarrassed the I-pad as unconditional part of our lives as if we cannot even consider a life without it. Despite of the understanding that these gadgets are not effective nor supportive for the development of a child personal character, we give it to our children and further perpetuate the dumbing down process of our children.

 

We as individual parents cannot do anything about it because the I-pad/smartphones epidemic has already went to a point of no return. We hope, pray and trust  that the educational system would compensate for our ineffective parenting skills, though as the result shows, the educational system is deliberately designed to dumbing down the children.

 

The parents believe that they are powerless and thus convinced themselves that the education system is trustworthy because someone who is qualified had said so. We trust the words of our corrupted Politicians more than we trust ourselves and because of that, we cannot even consider for one moment that if we want to see a change, we must become the change.

 

It has been no secret that we are having an educational crisis all over the world; It has been no secret that the educational system dumbing down our children. If I may ask - Doesn't that makes us, parents, even dumber if we know that there is a problem, we know the problem manifests consequences on the behalf of our children and we know that we must become more involved and take our responsibility in making sure that our children would become the utmost effective human being that can be? and yet, we do nothing to correct the problem.

 

So parents - are we going to wait or are we going to be what our children expect and need us to be?

 

More to come…

Curiosity of Knowledge and Information - Day 27

Art by Scott Cook

I forgive myself that I’ve accepted and allowed to design myself in the nature of limited form of curiosity wherein, I’m curious about the insignificant knowledge and information and disregarding the practical physical application of and as a living being that moves and direct according to that which is best for all life.

I forgive myself that I’ve NOT accepted and allowed myself to see the self dishonesty within the nature of curiosity wherein I seek for self empowerment through knowledge and information so that I won’t have to focus on the practical living application from the starting point of taking self responsibility to change myself, and could define myself as an intellectual and smart being to validate myself as EGO.

I forgive myself that I've accepted and allowed myself to have failed to see that curiosity is a tool that I'm using to preoccupied myself.

I forgive myself that I've accepted and allowed myself as a spiritual being to preoccupied myself with curiosity of who and what I was in my past lives despite of the irrelevancy of the knowledge and information as it is clearly hasn’t assisted and supported me with realizing Who I am as a living physical being but rather kept me further away/separated from myself and life as a whole.

I forgive myself that I've NOT accepted and allowed myself to take into consideration the nature of curiosity design where I'm being busy and preoccupied in my mind, wondering and pondering about who and what I was in my past lives and within that, abdicated the responsibility to face WHO I HAVE PROGRAMMED myself to be in this life time and accordingly change myself from the starting point of Who I am as a physical living being that walk, move and direct myself and this world as that which is best for all.

I forgive myself that I've accepted and allowed myself to be curious about who and what I was in my past lives instead of focusing on what is HERE and what is require to give direction to manifest myself and this world within the nature of what is best for all.

I forgive myself that I've accepted and allowed myself to program and design myself within curiosity about other people lives because I haven't realized the relationship between curiosity and gossiping wherein curiosity is the trigger point of the  desire to gossip about other people either with other beings or within one's own mind.

(For better context with regards to Gossiping, please read Facing Gossip - Day 7)

I forgive myself that I've accepted and allowed myself to seek for information and knowledge that will satisfied my curiosity and I haven't even consider my starting point within the desire to "know" and thus, I'm not taking responsibility for the information that I'm gathering from the perspective of zero self practical application and by doing so, I'm preoccupying myself within my mind and allowing myself to miss a breath and thus not living as a physical expression but as a mind expression which do not support a LIFE that is best for all but only the Life of myself as a self interest individual.

I forgive myself that I've accepted and allowed myself to give value to curiosity within the definition and belief that a curios being is pushing oneself to be better, to be intellectual, to be smart but within that I've not realized that those components are a mind component that are based on the validation of self through external and separated forces and within that, I forgive myself that I've NOT accepted and allowed myself to realize that intellectual/smart/wise is useless unless it comes with a physical practical application that is best for all life.

I forgive myself that I've accepted and allowed myself to develop curiosity towards irrelevant and insignificant points in my life to preoccupied myself in that which do not support LIFE because if I would have done so, I would have to take the responsibility to change and focus only on that which support all life.

I forgive myself that I've NOT accepted and allowed myself to realize that the starting point of fulfilling one's curiosity is because self experience oneself as limited and inferior.

Art by Scott Cool

I forgive myself that I've NOT accepted and allowed myself to realize that we live in a world where the information and knowledge is not accessible for everyone and thus, those who hold on the information are taking the rule of powerful and superior and the rest takes the rule of powerless and  inferiors and within that, I forgive myself that I've accepted and allowed a world where information=power even though, the information is in no way a support of life that is best for all but rather the opposite

I forgive myself that I've accepted and allowed myself to have failed to see how information is being a tool to manipulate and control within the power game of authority vs. submission  to authority.

I commit myself to focus only on that which can be practically applied as a physical living expression that is best for all.

I commit myself to expose all aspect of curiosity designs such as curiosity of sexual expression within children whom are not being assistance and support to understand and realize sexual physical expression and thus left alone within their mind and within that abuse themselves and others. As well as, I commit myself to expose the abusive nature of curiosity in relation to following one's thoughts in the illusionary/fantasy domain in the mind and the consequences there of.

I commit myself to stop participating in the power game of superiority/inferiority in relation to information and knowledge within the realization that I'm not defined by information/knowledge.