Suffer the Children to come...

     As cherished friends, relatives and dear family members grow older, a thought comes to mind; it is difficult to realize continued life without their company, but it is even more difficult to release them from long term obligations of friendship and family obligation earned over decades.

     Whose life is more cherished; the living or the dying? Difficult to discern, when the living care so little for who lives and who dies; beyond their borders. Difficult to discern as they commit loved one to infirmities equal to imprisonment and incarceration. Difficult to discern when such loved and cherished lives are condemned to suffer in agony and pain; tantamount to torture. Difficult to discern when the pursuit of oppression, repression and destruction surpasses all forms that engage Peace.

     It is difficult indeed, to lose those one loves to illness and infirmity, death and disease; worse yet to watch them suffer in pain. There are only 2 prayers one can offered here; the first for Healing that may or may not come and other for the release from the pain and suffering; into the Peace sought for the entirety of that Life.
Which would you choose?
Which demonstrates the Compassion and the Mercy sought throughout the ages by all Mankind?
Would you deny others their Rite to Peace as you deny them their Rite to choose that Peace, while attempting to gain that Peace yourself?

Suffer ye the Children of Man to pass this way to Peace.

© copyright R Anthony H. Rock

"An Educated Illusion"

     I have been giving some thought through observation of the human species and how they educate their offspring and how they turn such instruction over to those they believe have their best interests at heart. This of course prove to be the canard of human existence.

     In a World contrived and build on the hierarchy of individuals and individuality; one thing escapes most people, while education and its availability are supposedly for all to partake, the truth is far from evident. Who is educating your children and how are they  establishing such equality of instruction that is non-evidenced in the resulting graduation of more and more illiterate young people trolling the streets and avenues of every country of the World.

     The decided outcome of today's "dumb-down" attitude to education, blames the children for not wanting to learn, while the administrations remove the exciting and progressively positive attributes to schooling. Though "Apprenticeship" is decidedly the best form of education and nepotism is a renowned form of passing on one's knowledge to one's offspring; some occupations frown on children being part of the every delivery of service or labour.

     Societies around the World disapprove of one form of education or another, but in truth; all societies disapprove of equal education taught equally to all children. With age limits imposed on the beginning of their "Dumb-down" ideology of education; one finds many unworthy of education sliding through with ease, while those who desire to learn and absorb knowledge as sponges do water, are ignored for racial, ethnic or financial biases.

     The species relies on the formation of classes; upper, middle and lower; with each have education dispersed and parsed according to the above criterion and biases. The best schools are in the best neighbourhood, while the lower class schools are found lodged in ghettoes the world over. a student subject has to be exceptional in their endeavours to be propelled beyond the boundaries of established by society and the individual is rewarded for their prowess.

   If every child had equal opportunity as they claim to learn an equal curriculum established in a World-wide pattern, there would be an increase in the number of so-called exceptional students. Prejudice, petty jealousies and biases are human traits, unabashed and vividly evident in every corner of the circling globe. If you want smarter students , you need to start with a smarter system and curriculum and teachers willing to put aside their personal biases, prejudices to teach children; not based on who they are, but that they are.

     If the species wants equality in their citizenry, they must first share in the education of their offspring in like manner. One cannot say that all students are equal if one is unwilling to teach all students equal curriculums in equal systems with equal verve and equal dedication. The fault is not in the teacher or the teaching, but in the administration and the administrators who decide what is taught, how it is taught and who it is taught to.

     As a conscientious parents wanting the best for your children; perhaps you should begin with the manner and means by which your children's education is administered. Education is not a privilege it is a rite of passage for all children in their struggle to become the adults all want them to be.

© copyright R Anthony H. Rock