How to help instill proper education?
In todays society we teach our young basic concepts to better instill a concept of critical thinking, mathematics and prepare them for the future.
Many subjects are taught in todays schools but these subjects are not designed to produce proper forms of understanding in morality, sanctity and sanctuary.
Education today is predominately designed to provide them with the basics to get a job. There is a missing factor which should be provided to present to the young a way to obtain higher morality and an understanding of true sanctity of all life and the sanctuaries for which we exist.
This can be provided without the use of any religious practice. Religion is not the source of this. We are. The individual needs to learn why morality is important. What sanctity of all life truly means. Why the sanctuaries of others exist.
To better facilitate the process we can include class based lessons which would include a breakdown of the many different types of sanctuaries that exist not just for humankind but for all kind. The concepts to address would be nature reserves and why they are important. Of the small creatures such as bees that help other creatures. The links in nature that create the circle of life. These lessons may seem unimportant however they are presented so that the young minds begin to contemplate and understand the life around them and how these creatures are a different and important because of those differences.
A morality that begins to respect and love the little parts of the world around us would be generated from this. An understanding of those sanctuaries and the reasons for these sanctities would be given energy for them to grasp the morality that should be present yet is not.
It is important in these lessons to include a break down of the literal meaning of sanctity of all life. Without any religious pretense or ideology to distort it. It would help to remove the idea religion attempts to create of sanctity with human supremacy. For there are some practices that do not include this such as Buddhism the use of any specific religions should not be present in any of the lessons. These lessons are to be designed to educate the meanings and not to promote any specific concept such as vegan. It is very important to include the difference between survival and slaughter and the acceptance of why in nature creatures such as the lion is not committing slaughter but is engaged in survival.
These lessons should include symbiotic relationships without the use of concepts such as slavery. Genocidal slavery is not an appropriate topic and in this regard the concept of farm animals is excluded from any lesson. The use of breeding animals in captivity should also be excluded. Though in this regard the use of breeding endanger species with the intent to prevent their extinction and release them into the wild is acceptable. Symbiotic relationships where no harm is done to the creature such as beekeeping that provides a method of collection which is both peaceful and non intrusive into the cluster is acceptable provided it does not exclude the difference between taking the honey and honey being collected without doing harm. In these lessons the details of not commanding nor controlling the creature should be present and explained. Such as the hive can leave at will should they choose too. Symbiotic relationships that do not manipulate the free will nor the freedoms of the creature, such as zoo’s and farm’s.
To detail the differences of morality and as such these lessons would define the difference between selfish thoughts, selfless thoughts and even actions of the same. These lessons would include ways to learn how to break down your thoughts and understand them, to organize them and could even include basic mindfulness. Ways to stop and think, to enter into a logical process of thought by providing specific ways to not only express yourself and your thoughts but also to express emotion and to understand the basics of those emotions. This will provide a way to communicate and understand self.
As these concepts are given energy by the individual they help create a mind ready for understanding of both others and self. Those educated in this way will be capable of considering others and even there own minds to far greater degree then is already present.
Religious practices are not a requirement to learn morality, sanctity and sanctuary. If we as a species only rely on a religion to educate in this manner we will end up with concepts of human supremacy, for in todays world and society religions have an idea that Gods love is a competition and this is far from true.
We could even begin to educate them to better understand the basics and differences of love. How to identify blind love, unconditional love and true love. There is a blog present which explains these differences located here:
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