Alternative Education: Homeschooling Our Children

One major shift resulting from colonial education is that our identity as human beings is based on what we can achieve and do. For humanity’s ancestors our identity was defined by what we will not allow ourselves to do under any circumstances. The importance of this concept is tremendous for the modern individual. Any competent person can be trained to do anything, so that is a nominal aspect of our identity. One’s values and human quality will be based on the discipline one has to control himself/herself and protect the surrounding world from his/her evil. Today, we will have to determine if a system that has built its wealth from two millennia of pillage, murder, theft and destruction, offers us enough incentive to continue investing in its development rather than putting our energies into the institutions that educated humanity on living as a functioning member of this planet.