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If we think for just one minute and allow History to be our guide in deciding one way or another just who shall teach our children and how we will see some very profound lessons we should have learned by now to see the answer clearly without hesitation. For example; in Australia we have seen the destruction of an entire race of people through British Colonization with regard to Aboriginal Australians, or indigenous peoples belonging by nature and by culture to the land. Throughout these torturous and heart-breaking years the Aboriginal people endured having their children taken from them by force for the single belief that "white" people could do a better job in educating and in general raring these children we see the outcome today to be far worse way beyond the aims and objectives these so-called "experts" had initially set their sites upon. Today in Australia we see almost an entire race of Aboriginal people, what is left of them, confused culturally and emotionally and of course suffering and why? In a word; "education" provided by these so-called "experts" who felt it their right to reign supreme over local people of the land of which they had no knowledge and could have benefited greatly by learning the very culture they set out to destroy which might have other-wise saved many "white" people lives over those years.

Before anyone can claim to be a so-called "education expert" one must ask themselves the under-lying and most profound question of all, that being; "what aspect of education and the administration of it makes it supreme against any other in the world"? The world as we know is diverse at every level of life, so is also, the local community and environment in which children live. Thus I believe it stands to reason with Spiritual, common and so-called expert sense that we naturally teach our children within to a degree of the confines of their own environment and culture being relevant to them. In saying this however, that does not imply that children should not be educated in matters beyond themselves and/or local region. In order to educated children and adults alike we as teachers always have in the forefront of our minds the relevance our teaching will have to those we teach. After-all, at day's end, the aim and objective is to educated a person to achieve a goal, in the general sense of this Article children I believe are more-so the essence of the issue at hand, and henceforth reference to that cause is made specifically.

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