On the International Education System.

One can instantly think of many problems and bad things about education - in fact, anyone who is reading this now will most likely have been through an education system of some kind, and I'm sure we all have at least a few negative memories of schooling and I'm sure we all have problems with the way that things were done. All of the problems that you can think of, I'm also sure, are important, but none of them are as important as this:

When we are young, we have curiosity about things. It is impossible not to be curious. We want to touch everything, taste everything, smell everything and hear all of the noises anything can make. It doesn't matter what country you live in, or what language you speak - everyone is born curious.
The problem with the Education System is that students have so much of this curiosity taken away from them. Take England as an example. The students are usually very happy in the "Nursery" (pre-school) and "Primary School" stages, but when they reach "Secondary Education" (high school), the children start having to prepare for their General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) exams.

The pupils will stay up all night, cramming their brains with lots of useless facts and figures and with concepts that were never explained well enough to them for them to truly appreciate how it works, or what it does or what it means in the real world. This means that students often go through a transition phase, where they go from enjoying many subjects and learning about them, to not really enjoying the subjects  much anymore. The main problem is not that they don't enjoy the subjects (this is still, of course, very important), but that they loose all willingness to want to learn new things in these realms, because all learning means to them is more revising late at night for tests - something nobody wants. Because they have lost this willingness to learn, they have lost their curiosity about subjects - in fact, they end up not wanting to be curious.

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Unlocking the potential.

There are so many amazing different technologies out there in the universe today - Silicon based circuit boards, graphene, quantum computers, night vision equipment, super high definition cameras, GPS, space telescopes, hydrophobic materials, super-strength alloys and 3D motion sensor devices that will allow you to control a touchscreen device without touching it.

All of these things are amazing, and there are many more - but what is most amazing is what we are doing with them. Why are we wasting our time, technology, and therefore money on boring, uninteresting things with our technology, like making a rubbish TV series with a camera that could give us a better understanding of the world that we live in or using our incredibly fast smartphones as only an alarm or as a memo-pad?

I'm sure that psychology could give us some very interesting answers to this question, but really, the question is philosophical, and in some ways rhetorical, as it doesn't need an answer because there isn't a real answer. 

So I put forward to you this: let's use our technology in a selfless way - to benefit future generations by strengthening this golden age of information and technology before we ruin it by not doing anything about our world's current problems. We should work together to preserve what we have in this beautiful world and to gain more from this incredibly fortunate situation that we have ended up in.

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Welcome!

Hello and welcome to my new blog.
Here I will post information for your viewing that could one day change the world.
Together we can design a new world.
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