Lyrics That Mean Nothing ~ We Were Gifted with Thought ~ I'll Be Holding On To You

Lyrics That Mean Nothing ~ We Were Gifted with Thought ~ 
I'll Be Holding On To You

Many of our target learning goals in school are declarative: I know that.......

But to me, that's like asking a baby how to walk without ever asking them to take that knowledge and use it to practice walking.

Knowledge is important but it is still the lowest level of thinking. We were gifted with thought. Creating what only we can with our thoughts and evaluating the results is the highest.

It's time to move our feet to a more introspective beat. 

Test scores will go way up.

Seas of self-doubt will be parted.

And our children will be left standing on a mountaintop with their arms raised and smiles on their faces as the Sun rises to greet them with each new day as they grow into adulthood.

And then lower-level thinking that produces lower-loving living like terrorism and child abuse and maybe even the divorce rate will begin to diminish instead of what we're seeing now as they are increasing.

(@ 3 minutes into this song): 

Lean with it

Rock with it

When we going to stop with it?

Lyrics that mean nothing 

We were gifted with thought

Is it time to move our feet

To an introspective beat?

Lyrics That Mean Nothing ~ We Were Gifted with Thought ~ I'll Be Holding On To You

Lyrics That Mean Nothing ~ We Were Gifted with Thought ~ 
I'll Be Holding On To You

Many of our target learning goals in school are declarative: I know that.......

But to me, that's like asking a baby how to walk without ever asking them to take that knowledge and use it to practice walking.

Knowledge is important but it is still the lowest level of thinking. We were gifted with thought. Creating what only we can with our thoughts and evaluating the results is the highest.

It's time to move our feet to a more introspective beat. 

Test scores will go way up.

Seas of self-doubt will be parted.

And our children will be left standing on a mountaintop with their arms raised and smiles on their faces as the Sun rises to greet them with each new day as they grow into adulthood.

And then lower-level thinking that produces lower-loving living like terrorism and child abuse and maybe even the divorce rate will begin to diminish instead of what we're seeing now as they are increasing.

(@ 3 minutes into this song): 

Lean with it

Rock with it

When we going to stop with it?

Lyrics that mean nothing 

We were gifted with thought

Is it time to move our feet

To an introspective beat?

Thought #69 on Ending Terrorism ~ Revolutionary Change Comes From Revolutionary Thinking

KICKSTARTING OUR HEARTS ~ Thought #69 on Ending Terrorism ~ Revolutionary Change Comes From Revolutionary Thinking

The problems we have today, including the rise of terrorism, have been created by the way we have educated our children in the past.

A completely different way of education that gives teachers time to allow their students to think for themselves versus getting them ready for the test may be what we need for an educational revolution.

So far it's just been lip-service modifications of the same surface-level system leading to reactionary surface-level decisions that create birth, school, abuse, work, terrorism, death surface-level and increasingly terrified living.

KICKSTARTING OUR HEARTS ~ Thought #67 on Ending Terrorism ~ Developing Our Students' Higher Brain ~ Violence is the First Refuge of the Incompetent

Of the three brains that make up our total brain, the highest is the neocortex which makes up 5/6ths of the total organ. 

Yet we still rarely access it in education, falling back on the lesser limbic and still lower reptilian brains because these brains resist change. 

That's why I think Eleanor Roosevelt said, "Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people." — Eleanor Roosevelt

In a reptile-eat-reptile world where we use the lowest part of our brain we react emotionally to each other who we see as different and dangerous, and must “kill them all”. This is the place in the brain where terrorists are doing their "higher-level" thinking and making their conclusions on what action must be taken to solve their problems.  

We develop the higher competence of the higher neocortex in their kids and our kids and yes, education changes the world as its people come to truly higher-level and less reptilian conclusions on how to resolve conflict.