Education X Politics

We have just experienced yet another act of democracy, the 2018 election (mayor, legislator, town mayor) and referendum (power policies, human rights, naming). The results are quite overwhelming. It could almost be the fourth party alternation, except the presidency.

Well, we're certain not here for politics nor am I even going to try. Nonetheless, I should point out that it's improbable to separate the two like most people would try. Politics is life; education is learning to live.

My job is to talk to people. The society has a working title for us as "teacher".

I agree with as well as believe in it. Everything, is about politics, I once said. However, education tops politics because it's the root of everything. It's how we live, how we communicate how we treat one another and how we pass our knowledge to the next generation. It's our legacy.

People are suffering unnecessary pains, mentally, physically or both (because they're interconnected). We don't learn how to live a happy life because we don't teach it in schools where most of us assumed that's where knowledge is acquired. No, no, no my dear friends, knowledge of life is within life and schooling is just a tiny part of life, like a speck of dust in the wind. We ought to take full responsibilities and full control of ourselves. We are exactly where we belong, always. We may not deserve hardships but it is our obligation to make the decision to get the hell out of them. In other words, bad things can happen... but we choose whether to handle them or be handled by.

I feel the weight of democracy strongly and particularly this time, for blindness of party ideologies overpowering logic, for the irrational actions and words people created to target the few to blame, and for people's lack of one of the key abilities in this era... the ability to differentiate right from wrong. The last one is subjective, yes, but I mean to say that we need to at least be able to pause and question what we see or hear from others, the media or EVERYTHING.

All in all, things happen, things pass. Like it or not, no matter how the world changes, we shouldn't be greatly affected by it; we evolve with it. Don't change who you are, as a good person, for the gains and losses in the world. Be emotional, and then be calm.

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