By Dee Gibney, Hamilton
I would like to explain to you why you need a serious upgrade from the past that you seem to want to get rid of so badly. First of all you quote “minds talk about people” does not even make sense since minds can only think and not talk. But, getting beyond that you have 5 incomplete sentences and 5 run on sentences. You use a/mark instead of the word or and use a ? and not start a new sentence. So this is why we need to keep old methods in school to teach children and adults how to write. I find most of your writing with incomplete thoughts and not making much sense.
You wrote that it is more effective to start talking about ideas rather than others, who and what are others you never explain. You go on to write asking how many react to the past and have a need to upgrade thinking. There is nothing wrong with knowledge from the past this is how we put building blocks together to change the future or make our present better. We need the past to better understand where we are now as a nation and as a people. We use the past so as not to make mistakes that we made in the past that cause much harm to many people and nations.
You made no sense when you wrote that “we focus on the other people or get news inputs from elsewhere.” What other people and what is elsewhere?
You say we focus on institutions built in the past. What institutions and what past? You say we focus on old theories of education, health, well being and governance. This is your opinion only. If it was not for the past education in these areas we would not have a future in any of these fields. You say what we FOCUS on is what we see and create more of the same. I don’t see that at all, what many focus on creates new ideas to improve many situation and our country. You then wrote “ but we are already creating it none the less with our daily choices.” So what does that mean? Choices we make over what? you ask are you actively participating,” participating in what you neve say.
You go on to write if you have not changed your thinking it is not relevant either. Relevant to what and again that sounds like your opinion and yours only. You are making a judgment with nothing to back it up. You say the key to learning is natural, again who says! Learning for some is difficult and requires many methods to learn what comes easy for others. Once again your opinion only, who says schools are not relevant today as you claim, what facts do you have to prove that. You go on to quote 98% of teachers, where did you get that statistics from you did not say and have no proof that teachers favor less creative children. You go on to explain, in your opinion, why once again without any facts. I know plenty of creative people and they are no more difficult than others like you claim.
Your diatribe on strategies to mitigate makes no sense and you form opinions about people without facts. You quote two books and explain nothing about either of them so quoting them makes no sense to the reader. As for your let go of the past its over, is very dangerous idea. We need the past to learn from to seek a better future and without the past we are doomed to make the same mistake that were in the past.
I think you need an upgrade in your thinking that includes the past!