The Lack of Spiritual Education in Schools

If schools continue standardising science subject achievements as the crowning academic achievements then what kind of tomorrow are we promoting?

Our school structures produce a specific "work environment expectation" for the future. Schools shape what the ideal future individual looks like.

How do we perceive the ideal individual? Perhaps someone who follows rules, has a scientific mindset, and knows how to make a large income or earn a lot of promotions. This idea that we have about being ideal individuals is rooted in expectations impressed upon us during schooling.

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Science based subjects tend to push humanities based subjects to the side. In a lot of countries science based subjects including mathematics tend to take precedent over subjects such as literature, anthropological studies, and philosophical studies. This has resulted in the modern citizen having a particular set of global beliefs – a set of beliefs that might come off as questionable to some (including me).

Do You Recall someone at school once Giving You a Lesson related to spiritual consciousness, self-awareness, or self-understanding? These lessons are so essential to our own personal growth that it seems careless that schools would just pretend that those elements of life are irrelevant, or not a part of the curriculum, or inherit to our evolution as humans.

Spiritual Education is not needed

School children spend over 1500 hours Per Year in "Education" environments. This has a substantial impact on the kind of people those students will become after graduating from college. So when we ask whether spiritual education is needed should it not be up to parents rather than schooling policies? It is after all the investment of the parents into schools that keeps them running.

I would further posit that rates of dissatisfaction, work problems, and poor emotional awareness skills, are quite prominent in the world that schools claim to "prepare" people to enter. Schools teach knowledge to prepare us to do work. This is their agenda. It is not to improve self-awareness or to promote creative thinking outside the norm.

Spiritual Education should not be part of the curriculum

In 2006 I studied some units on ethics as electives while undertaking the degree in Business IT I was finishing at the time. Those that were taking the class as an elective struggled with basic philosophical concepts, as well as having trouble constructing a reasonable argument. How can critical thinking be taught after school education and as an elective? That's insane. It should be taught much much earlier. Critical thinking, the basis of ethics, and philosophical thought, should all be taught as soon as possible rather than being ejected into the corner of education that is dominated with the sciences.

Some schools teaching religion once again resort to a scientific method of reciting scripture or remembering who said what from the Bible. Is a humanistic school structure not possible at all? Or is it just undesirable when considering that it might cause people to find Their Core Selves and not spend all 40 possible hours of the week working?

Schools will claim that their curriculum prepares a person for real-world life. This is of course because schools frame what that life will be like with the actual process of indoctrination that forces an individual to chase a certain standard. Change the entire curriculum of all schools – and watch the world change.

Our spiritual understanding is inherent to us and does not need to be developed

The last point I would like to make is that the first 5-10 Years of a life sets more mental barriers within a person than that person will set on their own for the rest of their life. If schools are dictating ethics rather than promoting tools, experiences, and exercises for looking at the basis of ethics, then we are sure to continue producing societies without personal moral awareness. If schools continue setting a curriculum based on an expected future then few people will have the wisdom to make their own future and dreams come true when the time comes.

If schools continue standardising science subject achievements as the crowning academic achievements then what kind of tomorrow are we promoting?

Mental illness, depression, and unhappiness rates have increased more and more in the last decade because people are not being allowed to do what it is their hearts long for. Furthermore, in the modern world more and more people are being restricted from being their true selves. This has been a common historic trend – but whether we continue to support it or reject these standards is and has been in our hands the entire time.

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