We are all part of education
I would like to open this blog with a reflection on our role in education and what our attitude should be to create a more conscious world, since these kinds of reflections are what have led me to create this space.
When we talk about education, it's usual to think of school. However, education is something that goes further. Education is related to learning, to everything we experience and helps us to conform as a person. Also, we can say that education is everywhere and it is the way we relate to the world, including our relationship with others, with animals, with everything that surrounds us... but particularly, with ourselves.
The need to develop self-awareness
Usually, we are taught how to behave according to social conventions from a very early age. We are taught what is understood by good and bad and even what is to success in life and what we should do to be successful, if this is what we really want.
And what are we taught about ourselves? About who we are and what we are living for? Regarding we like and make us feel good? Are our talents considered and how can we help others through them while enjoying doing so?
It may be that the answers to these questions do not meet the expectations that others have projected on us. It is a fact that people tend to respond to the expectations of others, especially from those that are important for them, parents, teachers and friends, mainly. This is what is known as self-fulfilling prophecy.
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What would the world be like if we learned to be authentic, to listen to our hearts and to serve others by giving the best of ourselves instead of what is supposed to be the best for us and for others? What would happen if we learned to boost children’s potential instead of focusing on what we consider that are their deficiencies?
I ask myself these questions, which encourage me to foster a sort of world where these scenarios could become true. Perhaps, to some of you, this vision may seem utopian or even a fantasy. However, I think for something to happen it would be necessary to believe that this is possible and to take the appropriate actions to get it. The idea is the first step to make something happen. I think the effects derived from responding to the expectations imposed by today's society are well known. I assume that we are all an integral part of society and we have the responsibility for changing society if we don’t agree with it. And how? Learning to look inward, daring to look at what we don't like about ourselves and take action to change it instead of complaining about what we don't like about others, about society, about life… Change begins in every one of us. We have great power. We are important and we have to assume that responsibility ... Is it not wonderful?