Money Can't Buy You Love (or Success)

The misapplicatin of reources, that is the attempt to use money as a panacea for all ills is a symptom of the disease. It's been tried to buy kids good grades, buy teachers collusion and in general to buy time, a commodity we seem to be extreemly short of. These attempts to continually substitute cash for caring, caring about the truth only leads us further from the succsess that is still ours to experience. But the following article is right , that success is slipping away. And not just for America but all of humanity. The attempt to create a more sophisticated form of brain surgery in order to dump in the STEM soup will not work. However if you give a kid a cardboard box on a hill and guide them to describe the cause and effect of gravity, you would well be on your way.
A critical part of establishing the beachead for STEM in each community is for people to gain the sense of place we have mentioned so often.And in order for success it has to be found in every facet of life in every community. I really believe that this is just another abstract idea for 99% of anyone who hears the term. But a sense of place HAS to happen in order for real learning to take place. Learning is a state of existence as a higher level of consciousness in thought takes place to continually sort and sift information for each individuals understandings of what they perceive as life for them.This is natural for all people and to some extent for animals to a point in their life. For the infant human it reaches a crescendo of creative and cognitive development in the Einstein years and if nurtured continues somewhat unabated through out life although on different levels of thought as their bodies and perceptions develop.
There is a common denominator for people and animals to a point of divergence, it is the instinctive basis for empowering all the senses, they are the five senses; sight, touch, hearing, taste and smell. All of these are essential to navigating the shoals of life in the physical world. All animals and people have this gift,but just watch your dog or cat, they are light years ahead of you in having mastered the use of these basic senses. It is the sixth sense that has the capacity to set people apart from the banal existence of animals or the hunter gatherer in the urban jungle. This sense of there is something not quite in focus, something that is lingering to be born through an awareness, a clarity of purpose for our life, this sense is a need or longing to create and it is the prime motivator that has to be incubated and nourished in every person, most importantly it must be protected and allowed to flourish in every child. In order for Children to bring about the advances in understandings of STEM and life that are so crucial to our continued existence, they have to ask the questions and be encouraged to find the answers themselves. We will most assuredly fail if the old model of education does not get out of the way.Students cannot continue to answer the mimeographed questions from a teacher who has memorized what they needed to know to attain their teachers degree, or at least they cannot do this and truly learn. As we know one of the basic tenets of insanity is to perform the same tasks and expect different outcomes. That's not to say there isn't any capacity in some teachers to guide the students, that will remain to be seen and observed continually as opportunities to interact with children occur. Changing the pedagogy and predicates of childhood learning is the only key to unlock the door of success now, it always was. We didn't and still don't see this truth for many reasons, the main one is that the vast majority of people were too desensitized as children to perceive the opportunity to use that sense of creativity or to even become aware that they hold within themselves the essence of a kernel of this potential. As the enlightened few know this light exists within each child and may even still reside in some locked room deep within the psyche of most adults. I think the great ones of our past and present times called the potential for this positive creative brilliance to shine forth from the darkness as grace. In nature you see, we observe that all life flows in cycles. As long as life has the capacity to complete its cycles there is the chance for new life.

I am almost sorry to tell people that all the appropriations of every dollar couldn't buy a modicum of success in saving us now. For the answer to societies dilemma can't be bought, it can only be achieved through an agreement among enough people that we must rapidly and without restraint create lasting learning environments that empower our children to carry forth their own capacity to ask the questions. These questions which are the formative elements of thought, these thoughts are the precursors of thinking, this thinking will bring about the organic innovation that is the object desire of America's and all Humanity's continued survival for life's success on our planet.