"Getting Educated in the 21st Century"

Get Educated

Getting educated isn't all that hard. Getting your kids educated is different. Basically education comes to those who want it. We have a form of education system in the public school system but it's not really worth a whole lot. In fact it's mainly a for profit business/propaganda system. It resembles more a certification system than an education system.

In the first place it wastes a lot of time. That costs people a lot of money. Secondly it's fairly meaningless to the claimed benefit of social strata change. I mention this because this climbing and advancing in social level is it's main selling point. It's really just absurd as it asks parents to pay to have their children indoctrinated into a failed society. Believing that we don't live in a failed society is a result of our education/propaganda system. In this it works really well. The great society, the greatest nation on earth and the rest of this diatribe is all propaganda and all false. We don't have a great nation. We may have a great big nation. We have a great big army. A great big government. A great big media propaganda machine. That hardly amounts to anything admirable, let alone great. We could be a great nation. All we need to do is some great things.

As for our current certification/education system. It is only a means of certifying a person. It says: I got this degree. The degree, or certification is all but meaningless. You can be a certified business major graduate and go nowhere. The reason for this, besides a dead job market, is that the certification doesn't mean you're smart. It doesn't mean you'd be a good business man or be able to compete with good business men. It's necessary because it's part of the business model. The business starts with tuition and profit is made from the student and his family. Then there is business placement. Business trainee positions. Business search markets. Entry level positions. All profiting off the would be businessman. It's all a business. A for profit education scam.

No one at the top really want's any educated people. There are enough. They need hopeful, simple, uneducated, misinformed, regimented, faith based masses. Living in hope of dreams coming true. Living vicariously on the lives of the top echelon and the adored celebrity. Don't believe this? Look at the list of top search queries. I would like to see people interested in alternative societal systems. The history of money, the history of civilization, religion or science. Maybe the future of space exploration. Latest news from experiments with frequencies and the Hutchison effect. Something that we could learn and support to possibly save the human race from madness and extinction. Instead you'll find a huge interest in American Idol and a host of political and Hollywood celebrities. Not everyone. Maybe not you. Just most - by far. Stupid far.

So I spend my days and nights wondering what I can do to get the message out. The message that it is not necessary to live this way. We are financially devastated. Not just the U.S., the world. It could never end any differently since that is the design. But it is just one example of the nation wide lack of education we suffer under. I think it may be shifting towards an awakening. It may be. I am starting to feel the weight of a critical mass towards a full reversal of planetary rules, roles and rulers. We'll see.

Universal Ethics

Believe it or not - Crossroads - may have found a set of universal ethical principles!

If you want people to gain a practical knowledge of ethics, or need to stimulate dialogue amongst people from diverse backgrounds, Crossroads' framework of principles offers a time-tested solution. Designed to be useful to anyone anywhere and from any culture, faith or walk of life, our framework has so far stood the test of thousands of people in North America, Eastern Europe, Africa, China, Russia, and the Middle East.

Used to teach, guide or manage ethics, our framework has also proven effective in a wide variety of settings - corporations, professional associations, civic organizations, schools, universities, and even a hospice.

There are plenty of tools for decision making, but few secular guides to help us detect when a situation has ethical implications. Outside of case studies, ethical dilemmas rarely present themselves as such. In real life they usually pass by before we know it, or develop so gradually we only recognize them in hindsight - a little like noticing the snake after you've been bitten.

These principles are landmarks - generic indicators and guides for an active conscience. They are NOT values, which vary widely between individuals and cultures. Nor are they absolute rules. They are simply a set of constant, essential principles that serve to trigger our conscience and guide our actions no matter where we are in the world.

Learn more about these principles by linking to Crossroads' 3-page article     Also Read ~ Monetary Systems

www.projectcensored.org

For 33 years, Sonoma State University's (SSU) Project Censored (PC) has engaged in pioneering research on, and advocacy for, First Amendment issues. Founded by Carl Jensen in 1976, it's now headed by Professor Ben Frymer. On July 1, he took over from Professor Peter Phillips who stepped down after 13 years of distinguished service as Director.

PC works cooperatively "with numerous independent (US) media groups," primarily to train SSU students "in media research and First Amendment issues and the advocacy for, and protection of, free press rights in the United States."

For over three decades, it's "trained over 1,500 students in investigative research" and continues doing it through "a partnership of faculty, students, and the community," cooperatively engaged in "research on important national news stories that are underreported, ignored, misrepresented, or censored by the US corporate media."

Each year, it ranks the top 25 and publishes them in its yearbook, "Censored: Media Democracy in Action." The latest "Censored: Media Democracy in Action." The latest "Censored 2010: The Top 25 Censored Stories of 2008 - 09" just out is the subject of this review. The book may now be purchased locally, online, and most easily at projectcensored.org/store.

The current edition is larger than even, and includes the year's honorable mention choices as well as additional chapters covered below.

In the preface, Peter Phillips and former Associate Director Mickey Huff highlight Censored 2010's theme in explaining the corporate media's emphasis on commercialism, the "inane", the "irrelevant," and their willful suppression of real news and information on vital issues.

Their betrayal of the public trust reveals them to be "a gossip rag or screed sheet, a veritable three-ring circus sideshow of spectacle and distraction," and a "dying system" relying on disinformation, faux reporting over real journalism, and the main threat to democracy in America that can't flourish without a free and open media able to supply everyone with real news and information.

In its annual editions and daily on its web site (projectcensored.org), PC offers the best of what the corporate media censor or suppress. Censored 2010 offers more of it than ever, and credit for it goes to Peter Phillips, Mickey Huff, and the entire Project Censored team. As Dahr Jamail ends his introduction, "we are (indeed) fortunate to have (a valued) ally like Project Censored."

Tricia Boreta and Peter Phillips explain why:

-- because "the absence of real news from corporate media has never been so complete;

-- Lies, deception, propaganda, superficial coverage, and overt censorship are on the rise;" and as a result

-- democracy is being willfully destroyed.

But PC isn't standing pat, and allied with 28 professors nationally have incorporated PC "curricula and investigative procedures into their classrooms." They, and a free and open Internet, are the future. But not without a long tough struggle against powerful dark forces determined to hold on and control all news and information sources. It's for public outrage and committed organizations like PC to stop them. It's our country and our choice.

You cannot open a book without learning something.
Confucius

It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.
Henry David Thoreau

The least of the work of learning is done in the classroom.
Thomas Merton

This life is a process of learning.
Lauryn Hill

Much learning does not teach understanding.
Heraclitus

Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.
Daniel J. Boorstin

Belief gets in the way of learning.
Jeremy Collier

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.
Leonardo da Vinci

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes along.
Samuel Butler

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
Henry Ford

Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.
Henry David Thoreau

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.
Oscar Wilde