How do you change the world? It is an idea that I have been working with for a number of years now. The first step to answering the question is to define what a change in the world means. I have come to define it as a positive change in one’s perceived reality. This allows both big changes in the world that effect many people as well as people who ultimately effect individuals. One of the greatest challenges when facing a problem such as this is that you have to be willing to fail. Meaning ultimately that you have to be willing to try and try again.
There is a moment we face over and over again in life where an idea is perfect. It can not get any better and it just has to work. Ideas are only ever perfect in our minds. This is why we have to be willing to fail. Failure is not an ending, but rather a beginning to learning. I just finished watching a TED conference video on education and it made some very valid observations on education today. Briefly, we are no longer in an information age where students have to go to school to get information. Now it is all around them. The job of education now needs to be to guide knowledge. We are not achieving this goal through current means of standardized testing. It instills the idea that it is not okay to fail. Every question must be correct and your grade depends on it.
What if we taught constructs of thought rather than objects of thought. To understand how and why is more powerful than the what. Systems of understanding allow you to implement knowledge over a great plain of understanding.
Tags: education, Inspiration, knowledge, learning, school, thoughts
