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| I've thought of an amendment, and an addition that needs to me make. When I'm at the North Pole, I want to see the aurora borealis. I want to lie on my back at the North Pole, and stare up at the Northen Lights. Seriously, check this shit out. The greatest light show on Earth. And, 6) I want to set up my own school. I mean, I suppose that's the dream of everyone with a social and/or political agenda, but that doesn't make it a bad one. It's going to be an entire intergrated education system, from when children are 2 or 3 right up until 17 or 18. It's going to have it's own farm that the pupils will work and care for and look after. They're going to have to look after the animals, mucking them out and feeding them and milking them, and then they're going to eat them. It's going to teach children about food and where it comes from, breaking down the barriers that modern society is erecting. I mean, how many people can seriously connect a hamburger or a sausage with a cow or a pig? How many people can even connect a potato with something growing in the ground? It's all just abstract stuff we pick up at the supermarket. And then people freek out when they find out that a pig is going to be killed to make a sausage. And it's also going to teach them about life and death. It's going to teach them that it's the quality of life that's important, rather than fighting to stretch it out as long and thin as possible. It's pointless to try and engage is some prolonged battle with death, because you're going to lose it. Children need to be taught that. They need to be taught that death is something natural and good and not something to be feared. But by the same token, it will teach them an empathy with other living creatures, human and non-human. It will teach them that pain is a bad thing and we should do everything we can to strive to avoid suffering. It will teach them to help other people in pain, and not be scared of them. It's going to teach them a lot of other things that children aren't being taught these days. It's going to teach them the importance of language and communication. People are manipulated and misled every single day and they don't have the tools to recognise that. I mean, how many people can tell you if a news report is biased? How many people can look at an advert, and not just get swamped in the cotton wool of the packaging, but see through all that to the actual message behind the advert? Not nearly enough. And films, how many people can see films as a series of strung together cliche? When 'Sin City' and '8 Mile' came out, everyone hailed them as masterpieces of high art. Film at it's best. It's not. They might be good, nice and polished, but they're not high art. They just have a few snappy visuals and a story that can hold water. It's a bit clever. Not hugely clever. And muisc. Music is so much unoriginal, uninspired, recycled crap these days. The same words over the same few notes and progresions, or the same pre-programmed beats. Children need to be given the tools to disect the art around them and understand it, because art is how humanity expresses it's emotions. Comparative religion. All faiths are equal but hold different beliefs, none right, none wrong. Teach them to understand and analyise the structure behind people's faiths. Of course, I'm not going to ditch the study of language and science and maths. They are all vital to an understanding of the world we live in, vital tools in anyone's ability to think for themselves. But pupils are going to be engaged and interacting. It's not going to be some authoritive teacher standing at the front of the class and preaching. Classrooms are going to be noisy, with people talking and exchanging ideas and finding things out for themselves. It's a nice dream, isn't it? Rather hippy-esque and, I suspect, totally unrealistic. Of course, no one can tell me that with certainity until I've tried it. |
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