When I was a child, education seemed fairly straightforward. We all went to primary school, very few people we knew were functionally illiterate, and no one we knew thought the earth was flat. Today it’s a different scene. I hear tell that around 50% of the people in the United States cannot read on a 7th grade level, and that an alarming percentage believe the sun rotates around the earth. The recent pandemic changed the face of education, and time will tell if we have learned anything from those events. We see steps in the right direction. Tennessee has started a statewide tutoring program to get their students back to the “normal” level, and it will help around 150,000 students. Worldwide, we are also seeing baby steps. In Ethiopia, more than 2 million children are currently out of school, due to war, drought, flooding, and other circumstances. They have begun an accelerated learning program where in 10 months the first three years of school can be taught, allowing the children to enter school in 4th grade. This program is held in brightly decorated spaces with a focus on music and games in order to encourage a sense of joy. Perhaps this is the solution: bring the joy of learning back to school. If children are happy in school, feeling comfortable and safe, they will learn. We can do this …
“Child of God, you were created to create the good, the beautiful and the holy. Do not forget this. The Love of God, for a little while, must still be expressed through one body to another, because vision is still so dim. You can use your body best to help you enlarge your perception so you can achieve real vision, of which the physical eye is incapable. Learning to do this is the body’s only true usefulness.” A Course in Miracles T-1.VII.2:1-5
“Eternal Truth is changing the universe. As mortals drop off their mental swaddling-clothes, thought expands into expression. ‘Let there be light,’ is the perpetual demand of Truth and Love, changing chaos into order and discord into the music of the spheres.”
Mary Baker Eddy - Science & Health Page255:1
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