The quality of education today

I remember back to when I was a student at university and what education was like back then.  There was no online information and books being shredded.  Also you either passed or failed and if you failed you either worked out why or tried to change subjects. Now things have changed.  The student is at university in most instances because they are unable to obtain employment and the focus on quality has changed with this.  It seems that the Heads of Department which existed with the more traditional British model seem to have disappeared.  This process allowed a professor or experienced academic to monitor course work.  This now has been replaced with excessive administration staff which seem to have little grasp on course content at all in itself outlaying a poor quality of course material for students to obtain access to quality course material. 

In the past a basic Bachelor of Arts Degree would allow a student a means of furthering one's knowledge and to question information which was processed and received.  Now a Bachelor of Arts degree is more or less the equivalent of a high school certificate.  This degree as well as other Bachelor Degrees would enable the student to obtain a basic understanding of a subject area and either use this as a means of enabling them to better understand the world around them or to entertain the idea of undertaking further study.  I have no desire myself to undertake further study because I believe there is too much information and too little assimilation of authentic or accurately substantiated information.  Also I see students seeming in some instances of knowing very little about what they are actually learning.  It is a sad loss to make very little use of valuable time within a university.  The changes of doing away with faculties and implementing schools which seems to be a more American based system in my opinion leads to poorer output.  Information and learning within universities needs to be about quality and more importantly an encouragement of higher and more critical thinking.  I cannot understand also how some universities can be so narrow minded, tunnel visioned and controlling in their approach to supposedly learning.

I cannot understand why education has deteriorated so much today as it seems there is more of a focus on pushing people through educational systems or attending university to obtain a better job.  Time is simply wasted on the interim period and actual fact based, constructive, and critical thinking.  A university should be a place for the student to explore the world and knowledge around them and be a place to encourage higher thinking instead of a place in some instances to hibernate from the difficulties of finding employment.  It frustrates me when I see students and very few actually show little or no interest in what they are learning or more sadly unable to discuss what they are learning as they are too afraid of standing out as independent.  If students were actually able to enter a higher state of thinking then a university environment would be a different place.  One where quality would be much higher and more importantly thinking more evident. 

All persons are able to obtain an education in all walks of life but sadly very few seem to be able to find the path within an educational sense to apply a knowledge of thought and higher thinking into the world around them.  Going back to the period of Socrates, Plato and Aristotle, the word academic was derived from what I understand academy.  I am not sure of the actual Greek word but this was a place of thinking and learning as well as a focus on athletic ability.  What needs to be implemented within educational institutions to engage students in thought and to connect them with a better way of thinking and learning?  I guess there must be an answer somewhere?

A different way of thinking and functioning

Ever since I was born, I have always found that the way I interpret, learn and process information is different to that of other people. I could never understand why within the school system I always found myself on the outer and failing in this system, which supposedly deemed my intelligence level.  I found myself at an early age wanting to know more about gravity and water flow and how counterweights worked and studying the effect of marbles in certain experiments.  Added to this, I found myself reading encyclopedias as the words made sense than a manipulated education system that was specifically flawed in many ways to allow for retention.

The school years, especially the latter ones were like a combat zone.  I spent my lunch hours avoiding combat zones instead reading the Guinness Book of Records breaking the records information.  How tall was the tallest man?  What was the longest record with an algebraic equation? The list went on.  Despite wanting to have a purple bicycle and replicating Disney characters onto sheets of cardboard when I was about 11 years old, I also became interested in growing orchids.  I collected many different species and became fascinated with the little maintenance required in growing orchids.  My grandmother's next door neighbour had many orchids but sadly trying to get an orchid runner (a way to grow a new orchid) my attempts were unsuccessful.

I had many interests and also had a telescope which I would set up and gaze into the heavens with. I became interested in looking at the moon and wondering what a crater looked like.  I also wondered whether the moon itself rotated as the patterns on the moon never seemed to change.  The moon represented mystery to me as how did the moon glow with its magical whiteness and pure glow?  I wondered whether it had some kind of florescent characteristic although I knew the sun really was responsible.  I also looked for nebula and also Mars.  Why was Mars red, why did Saturn have a ring around it?  What was God's plan I used to wonder to myself? 

I was told within school that having no intelligence I would not go far but I knew that such assessments were incorrect.  I would learn when I was ready or how best learning suited me.  When I first attended university, I enrolled in Ancient and Modern History, English and Philosophy.  I enjoyed researching philosophy and looking back I think I can remember a few Aspies teaching the subject.  The many theories and concepts such as Descartes and the "Brain in the Vat" did get me thinking.  When I was totally consumed in philosophy at the University of New England, I could reach a point of being in a higher state of consciousness.  We all seem to live our lives in capsules being our own bodies and we cannot ask anyone else if the world and reality exist because we have to absorb and process through our own bodies.  I believe we are all a blue print of God as ourselves are never replicated even in identical twins there is a difference.  Perhaps we live on earth in the physical world and then go on in eternity in the spiritual world.  By this I don't mean that people walk around carrying a ball and chain but more so an eternal consciousness that defines who we are as individual people.  Perhaps in the eternal life, the fourth dimension is evident through the so called tunnel and spiritual realm.  I often even wonder about the Egyptians and what exactly they knew and whether they were the forerunner to Atlantis.  A city that perhaps although I will sound crazy on a higher state of thinking.  Nothing is known about the construction of the pyramids and how such structures were created.  They seemed to think differently to us.

I find reading difficult because my eye sight is not the best.  My ears have very sensitive hearing and I can hear even the slightest of noises.  Now when I have to live in this world not designed for Aspies, sounds can be simply overwhelming.  Music in gyms or in shopping centres are just like sound explosions at times.  It is like being again in a combat zone as well as all this visual thrust in your face junk that you seem in shopping centres.  I look at myself in the mirror to see who I really am and to see what I like and don't like about myself. For each and everyone of us God provides us with a vessel which is our own body but sadly some of us do not look after it.  We also operate in a more physical sense to bring out the absolute worst that as a creature which can be inflicted onto others.  People seem highly stressed now as if some kind of force is controlling them and making them question and even dislike themselves.  It is about time people look within and start to open and awaken their spiritual selves.  In the spiritual sense a person can be much happier. They can detach themselves from this physical world which brings out often the worst in human behaviour such as greed, selfishness and harm to others.  I cannot understand why people don't open their eyes to the spiritual world because the world would exist more in harmony but instead humanity has to learn the hard way. Perhaps if there is a life review, a person will understand what and how they should have acted within the physical sense. 

I spend my time constantly thinking and questioning the world around me.  I believe this monetary system inflicts misery onto people because it suppresses and controls them but in the current world man is stuck with it unless he opens his mind and starts to understand his spiritual self.  Just think the world would be so much a better place if people opened their eyes and didn't consume with their heads and lust.  Perhaps this is God's message to humanity and that which Jesus demonstrated that goodness makes for a better world? 

Is it God's calling?

It is seems that whenever you mention God today that most people look at you odly or dismiss you as a bible basher which seems sad in the so called modern world.  I often wonder just what God thinks of the world when most people don't want to connect or become distracted by material possessions or other objects? 

It is my belief that God does exist but the problem many confront is that they tend to shut themselves of and not want to think or find ways to connect with God.  For instance churches have failed over the centuries to instill this God fearing term to now a more cynicism that if God exists how come there is misery and famine in the world?  What people need to understand is that God is not human and is above humanity's understanding. To put it simply people need to discover and unlock their spiritual selves.  In a more spiritual sense, there is no greed, envy, hatred, judement of others etc. Greater thinking encourages more tolerance and understanding and forges a better world but humanity seems to be possessed with greed and existing in a veil of ignorance primarily through the fear of death.  To be comfortable within yourself you need to understand your inner self.  That which lies within. What energy is contained within you and how such energy can lead you in a more positive and productive direction within your life.  I believe that God provides us with life and it is up to ourselves to discover our own individual journey.  Some people are kind and all loving and others are simply unsavoury and here to touch us lessons.  If the spiritual self is nurtured, better coping strategies can be implemented to deal with situations but sadly now such strategies are not nutured.  The world has become confused and people can often be better, carry hurt and harm  other people.  If people were more spiritual then this would not happen.  I see people and difficult people as a means of trying to learn to become a better person myself and to try and become more spiritual.

I think people have lost touch with themselves and connecting with God because they fear death and more so themselves.  People need to love within and accept more so than consume and seek happiness.  The latter causes more unhappiness and it does not purify and create peace within one's self.  One of the things I have noticed with humanity is how people are stressing themselves unnecessarily, not eating properly and living beyond their own means.  Money does not buy happiness but inner happiness does.  I know God is helping me because I know some very kind and beautiful and all loving people in my life.  Such people help guide me through times of difficulty and help me to understand God much better.  It is up to every individual a special blue print of God to find their own journey but I am saddened when so many people just feel a sense of loss or distraction within their lives.  People fear that death is the end and that some will be judged.  I don't believe God judges anyone.  Jesus was a physical embodiment of God but I think some stories written about Jesus were somewhat exaggerated.  This being that Jesus walked on water, could cure people of sickness etc.  Very little is known about what Jesus actually looked like but I do believe he had unique abilities to guide people to a better understanding, and higher way of thinking within God's all lovingness. 

I often spend my time over thinking and one thing I am looking into at the moment is the existence of Atlantis.  Just before I mention Atlantis, I would like to provide special mention of Egypt.  Very little is known about the Egyptians but one thing we do know is that they were mysterious and seemed to exist in a higher way of thinking.  They seemed to have been involved in very few wars if any?  They had a belief in life beyond death and built the pyramids and other notable monuments.  I often wonder with their higher way of thinking whether the Egyptians ascended into Atlantis?  Atlantans seemed if Plato was correct to have lead very productive and higher thinking existence.  Perhaps Atlantans knew far more than any other civilisation.  Their untimely destruction could have been through the fact that they destroyed themselves or perhaps entered another dimension or even gone beyond a physical life?  Again if you imagine the next life, perhaps they perished because of ignorance because they knew too much?  Again this needs further research.  It seems that ignorance causes humans to become greedy and in most cases destructive.  It is not a spiritual way of life.  In the next or eternal life all of us exist in a spiritual form but fail to do so and learn the lessons of harshness and destruction within our physical bodies?  God perhaps allows us the opportunity in our physical lives to see how we learn from our mistakes?  If you make mistakes then you will learn and understand just what evil can do?  I dislike in myself some of the physical characteristics of sometimes judging others and finding it hard to forgive.  I see more the need to complain about wrong doings than to react to them.  I also find avoiding them is another way but when exposed to them, I need to operate more in a spiritual sense so that I can cope better. 

Lastly as humanity exists in the third dimension, perhaps the fourth dimension is entered upon the physical life?  The tunnel which is often described and the peaceful light and the spiritual presence is found in the next dimension?  Some people just think death is final but one thing is for sure that people have no control over it like they have no control over birth.  However perhaps as humans we live a mortal life and then an eternal life?  The tunnel may be a step into the next dimension leaving the physical 3 dimensional world behind?   I just wish people would think more and try and find their spiritual selves because the world would be a better place if they did?  Why do you think people who claim to have experienced near death experiences come back with a renewed outlook upon life?  Why do people foster a better life when there is goodness?  Perhaps more people need to understand their spiritual selves better?  Imagine a world without greed, selfishness, hatred and judgement?  Why can't this be so?  Why does this empty materialistic world continue with all the anger, bitterness and hatred to go a long with it?  As people we shouldn't be cruel and violent and one has to wonder what exactly is causing this?  Just have a think about it, can you activate or find your spiritual self?  How does God work for you or perhaps you are not letting God into your life or don't open your heart to see how God is helping you?  I will leave these thoughts with you for now to have a think about.