Education Plus Compassion – How to Change the World
Mike Sygula – “There are two vital tools needed to improve our life on this planet and start living more sustainably: education and compassion.”
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Student Sets Gauge for Effective Education
Video – How hacking education can make young people more effective and happy.
Disgusting and Cruel School Lunches Prompt Massive Student Boycott
Heather Callaghan – It’s not so much the school they take issue with, but the shady food company to whom they are contracted…
Teacher Poses as Student and is Shocked by What She Discovers
Sigmund Fraud – An experiment helped this teacher to quickly figure out these 3 painfully obvious truths about modern school and how we treat children…
Dodging the Tuition Debt Bullet
Anna Hunt – Student tuition debt is astronomical in the US, and Germany announces free higher ed for all…
Psych Experiment Tricks Students Into Believing in Non-Existent Career
Heather Callaghan, Contributor Waking Times How career dreams are born, and then evaporated. Study shows how to convince those with low self-confidence to pursue their career choice – by first crushing their self-esteem…. What does it take to convince a person that they are qualified to achieve the career of their dreams? Researchers found that …
At What Point Did We Start Accepting Our Insane World As The Norm?
Marco Torres, Prevent Disease Waking Times Ever wonder when it was that we all started submitting to the terms of life as we are subjected to on a daily basis? When did we start accepting the poisoning of our water supply with fluoride and other toxins? When did we start saying it’s ok to pollute …
Mom Says NO to School System Intimidation
Heather Callaghan, Contributor Waking Times And Common Purpose, and the threat of Social Services… This British mum smacks down the punishing culture of the public school system . She gives a chilling account of what happened when her son was given confusing commands, humiliated in front of class, brought to tears and trauma and how it was covered up …
How Higher Education in the US Was Destroyed in 5 Basic Steps
Debra Leigh Scott, AlterNet Waking Times Higher education is not what it used to be, and that’s no accident. A few years back, Paul E. Lingenfelter began his report on the defunding of public education by saying, “In 1920 H.G. Wells wrote, ‘History is becoming more and more a race between education and catastrophe.’ I think he …
The Seven Pillars of the Matrix
Robert Bonomo, Contributor Waking Times “No one is more of a slave than he who thinks himself free without being so.” ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Contemporary baptized, corporatized and sanitized man rarely has the occasion to question his identity, and when he does a typical response might be, “I am product manager for a large …
North American Teachers are Revolting Against Standardized Testing
Jeff Abbott, Waging NonViolence Waking Times As the 2014 academic year nears an end, teachers from an increasing number of public schools across the United States, Canada and Mexico are reflecting on teaching at least one unconventional lesson to their students and their neighborhoods this past year: How to resist standardized tests. On May Day …
Report Finds Thousands Of Toddlers Are Being Medicated For ADHD
Dave Mihalovic, Prevent Disease Waking Times There is something seriously wrong with the way attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is diagnosed in young children in the US, with over 1 million kids being potentially misdiagnosed just because they are the youngest in their kindergarten year, with the youngest in class twice as likely to be …
Should Toddlers Be Medicated for ADHD?
Alex Pietrowski – “The trend of medicating children for behavioral issues continues to grow…”
Child Prodigies and the Assault on Creativity
Andy Dilks, Staff Writer Waking Times When you think of a child prodigy, you usually think of an exceptional young talent which has been recognised in a person’s early life and nurtured by those around them, who encourage their latent abilities to blossom and grow. Mozart, of course, springs immediately to mind – a rare …
16 Signs That You’re a Slave to the Matrix
Sigmund Fraud, Staff Writer Waking Times Today’s world is a strange place. We are inundated with signals from early on in life, encouraging each of us to walk a particular path, establishing blinders on us along the way to discourage us from looking for alternatives to what the herd is doing or thinking. Life is …
Time to Stop Treating Our Children Like Robots and Templates
Marco Torres, Prevent Disease Waking Times A child grows in our society conditioned to believe that happiness is perpetually postponed for tomorrow. Their hope and vision is confined to living within society’s expectations and standards of the future where happiness exists in promises. They must pass every grade and go on to the next level …
Left Brain Worship and the Religion of Academia
Julian Wash, Contributor Waking Times Dear Humans, Today I wish to return to consciousness a number of curious aspects associated with the institution that we call “higher learning.” In the process, I’ll call into review certain facets of its design and briefly describe some of the inner-workings of this construct, as I see it. There are many systems, …
Stop Dreaming, Accept ‘What is’, and Enter Your True Reality
Alen Mischael Vukelić, Contributor Waking Times Whatever path you choose, be it spiritual, scientific, non-spiritual, realistic, surrealistic, sooner or later, you ‘ll have to face it, that nothing turns out the way you want it to be. Can you do something about it – or should you just accept it? Should you keep swimming against the …
How to Reclaim Your Mind
Jefferey Jaxen, Staff Writer Waking Times This is an important piece for those that wish to begin walking their true path in life. Many, including myself, fall victim to advertising, propaganda, and poor food choices that all cloud our true thoughts and beliefs. There are many systems in place to gently steer the way we …
Can All Cancer Be Cured in Less Than 12 Weeks?
Gregg Prescott, M.S., In5D Guest Waking Times Please note: Any information presented in this article is for educational research ONLY. This particular article and author is not making any recommendations and is not giving any personal medical advice in the following material. On a recent interview, Dr. Leonard Coldwell claimed that ‘all cancer’ along with ‘all other …