Compassion, hope to matriculate, a little space, love. The missing ingredient in education is education. No longer our the children of the future being taught to care, they are being trained to kill. Dog eat dog world, right? This is why I dropped out of one of the most prestigious schools for teaching art. It's all so rushed, education is vague and it's entire sentiment has been plagued with worry. The word "education" is one within a whole new contextual arena akin to survival and deny. If we take a look closer at education on a world level, again people are mainly being taught skills for personalization and they are not being taught to earn a living, rather they are being taught to earn an earning.

Those that earn an earning go on and on without any pause or any contemplation for the big picture. Now the "article title" was "the missing ingredient in education". We must ask, "education on what level" and if there is a missing ingredient than those that are now earning an earning mindlessly should open to the secret. No longer are humans "human beings," we are rather human doings, getting on and doing completely absurd jobs for the sake of tv dinners, oh, and a tv.

Education should be dubbed "reducation" for it's inherent bloody gauntlet of reducing the human mind to a classroom and all the stiff chairs that get in one's way. How beautiful would it be if schools had programs where one got to choose where they wanted to learn. We have it now but it's insanely difficult to apply for such field trips. Instead the field "trip" ends up in the teachers mind and the egoic nature of the system and the teacher combine while police officers down the block load on calories in their classroom, a cop car. We have a new classroom of the 21st century and if you have not seen it then let this author inform you of it's complexity.

No longer do children and college students work, study and test in a classroom. The right pioneering label for the classroom milieu is known as a "classroot". The "classroot" is simply the internet and it has transformed the way toddlers learn and it has transformed the way med school students learn and communicate. So the missing ingredient in education is education because people do not stare at the four walls in a room anymore, they stare into cyberspace or at a colleagues website, not at a chalkboard. This all sounds a bit avant-garde but just wait around a few more years and you will see how the internet is creating a frenzy of information devoid of any kind of wisdom. Yale's motto, "lux et veritas" is cute but where is the truth when one has been brought up in front of the screen. Say goodbye to the dictionary and the Bible and just pay attention to the inbox of the future.

Let's call education the "inbox".. The missing ingredient in education is therefore the "inbox."

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