Monday, October 14, 2013

Educating our children (#1718)

I have no children of my own yet to me the most important thing any of us can do in this existence is to make sure our children know as much as we do if not more. Some, probably a majority of folks may think that serving ourselves to all the fancies and pleasures we are able to acquire is our most important occupation, I would wholeheartedly disagree. I have had few fancies and pleasures of this world but in no way did they ever compare to the giving of knowledge to others. It is a remarkable thing to see the light come on in someone's eyes when they grasp a concept or equation that had been nothing but frustration for them previously. The gift of passing on knowledge is a deep and full satisfaction. We are a continuing species, a chain that is linked by our own lives in order to further an idea that what we don't know about ourselves and our existence is just waiting to happen for us in the future. We have to get to that future by providing all we can within some happy boundary. Those who have come and gone before us have left us the blueprint to accomplish not only the goal of species survival but species maturation and information gathering to wisely use it. None of us is unique in that regard. We all do what we can to add to the path we are on and it is good for us to do so. To be human we are bound to learn and understand ourselves and as we continue to do so we also find it satisfying to pass what we learn and grow from on to the next souls who would find some knowing from it. It is a natural progression from us to the next and how we do it either exemplifies who we are or highlights the struggle that we are having just being human. 

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