TEDxDirigo - Zoe Weil - The World Becomes What You Teach

Wow, thanks for sharing this, Fairy.  Zoe Weil is a gifted educator, a fabulous speaker, and a great human being.  Her ideas could revolutionize not only education, but life on this planet.

The problem is that the entire public education system is designed to train children to become obedient workers.  They are taught what to think, not how to think.  There's a very good reason for this.  It supports the System that best supports the elite class.  They are the ones running the show.

Changing the System will take more than great ideas.  The world is full of geniouses, like Nikola Tesla, whose ideas were suppressed to preserve the status quo. The System itself must be changed to allow creative ideas like this to flourish.

I pray that events this coming year will shift the power back into the hands of the people, so that we can create a world that serves humanity and life on Earth.

There has been much talk about police state, fema camps, economic meltdown, etc.  I truly believe that the status quo (supported by a bogus debt-based central banking monetary system) will have to crumble, turn to ashes, and out of those ashes, ready to blossom, to be born again, all of the inherent wealth of Humankind.

There would most likely be much collateral death and damage in the evolutionary process, but overall would be such a good thing for Humankind, for the planet and for all other life on the planet.  I am the impatient type, so when I see some "writing on the wall" I just want to get on with it, get it over with, and get on with the brilliant blossoming magic that follows...

This magic (so perfectly displayed in Zoe's talk) sure seems to be paralleling all the horrid despotic nonsense we see... She reminds me that there are those who may or may not be aware of the atrocities, but choose to see and live the world they want...  You go Zoe!!!!!

I've heard Soe Weil's encouraging, uplifting talk before and was so grateful to pass her ideas along to friends. I agree, however, with Noa and Chris who are both aware that true, meaningful education for life will not happen as long as the current system of economics is in place. The corporations who sell the cotton clothing produced by slave labor and who sell bottled water and on and on and on.... would never allow it. The local chamber of commerce wouldn't allow it. "We can't have our children questioning our marketing strategies."

I do like Chris' comment,"She reminds me that there are those who may or may not be aware of the atrocities, but choose to see and live the world they want.." That's why I treasure video's like these. 

Along with this humane approach to education, programs like the "Century of Self" which would allow students to peek behind the curtain to examine what "Marketing" is all about and how powerfully it has affected our culture.

Have any of you seen the film "Even the Rain"? That would also be viewed in my class were I still teaching. 

Thanks for that, Jody.  I hadn't heard of this movie before.  But I am aware of the Bolivian people's battle against Bechtel, the water conglomerate who made it illegal for the citizens to gather even the rain.  I also know that the people ultmately triumphed against the corporation who tried to monopolize what amounts to life itself.  This story sets a precedent and a warning against future such greedy SOBs.

Here's the background... http://www.uchastings.edu/faculty-administration/faculty/roht-arriaza/class-website/docs/law-and-development/law-and-development09-bolivias-war-over-water.pdf

Here's the movie trailer to Even the Rain...

If anyone knows of a young person whose parents would want to give them this kind of education it has been happening since 1957 at The Meeting School in Ringe, NH. The school has had a hard time making it in this economy as the Quaker boarding school it was so has recently become a semester school, where kids could just spend 1 semester out of their 4 year high school education learning to live a sustainable life and freely explore other topics that the student might wish to explore. Required classes used to include peace studies.

http://www.meetingschool.org/