Your Personal Philosophy Of Education
Critical For Educational Wellness

Simply put, I do not believe that we, as parents, are doing a good enough job of holding schools accountable for providing a high-quality education to our children. For fifty years now, the public education system has been out of control and society had paid dearly for these mistakes. We have lost control of educational wellness in our society.

The education issues that we, as a society, face today are making a huge mess out of everything that we hold dear. In fact, the problems caused by our poor functioning public education system are a key contributor to the stress management problem in our society. People must be taught strong stress management skills when they are young, but, it seems school is the most stressful experience of all.

Just like every other institution in society, the public education system served a valuable function at a particular time in history, but that philosophy of education is no longer serving our society. It has to change! We now know that educating groups of kids all at the same age in massive groups of 30 or more per class just doesn’t cut it. Something has to change!

The current model came into use after WW2 when the population grew dramatically in a short amount of time. Schools had to make big adjustments to accommodate the 76,000,000 Baby Boomers and it wasn’t long before children became little more than numbers in a cookie cutter education system. The system began to weaken and even though the system was being stretched thinner and thinner, the system still didn't care about your personal philosophy of education.

In the elementary classes, children still stayed with one teacher for the better part of each day but at the secondary level, the children were moved from class to class each hour like cattle on a cattle drive. Learning systems began to fail, drop out rates increased, violence and destructive behavior began to increase and today schools are some of the most dangerous places to send kids.

Educational experts tried all kinds of things to fix the problem and when school-based solutions didn’t help, schools began dictating to parents how to raise their children. They began offering sex education; death education; and they began forcing families to put their, so called, ADD/ADHD children on Ritalin. Not only was your personal philosophy of education unimportant but now your parenting philosophy was being challenged as well.

Two of the books that I had to read during my mandatory English Literature training in high school were “Lord of the Flies” by William Golding and “1984” by George Orwell. The first of these books showed us the potentially disastrous results when a large group of same-age, same-gender children gains the power to be in charge of their own destiny. The second book shows us what happens when there is far too much governmental and institutional control in a society. These books were written by two authors, whom are considered to be some of the best writers in history and yet we seem to have learned nothing from them. The average parent's personal philosophy of education is still heavily rejected in schools.

Day after day, year after year we send our children to schools to be educated in large groups of same age peers and we allow ourselves to be dictated to by government and unions. It seems we have completely forgotten that we once had a personal philosophy of education. We have forgotten that we once had standards and expectations for our children. Schools are failing and they will continue to fail until parents decide they have had enough. Schools have the ability to change, but parents must demand it. Parents are the only stewards of educational wellness that exist in a society. The parent cannot and should not be replaced.





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