by Mike Adams

This article is provided courtesy of NewsTarget.com and Mike Adams. (see below).

If you take all the people with the most pronounced hardships in life -- the working poor, the criminals, the drug addicts, and so on -- you find they all have one thing in common: a lackluster education. Nearly all the people who fall between the cracks in society share a childhood education crisis: they didn’t get the same education that others received. Or they couldn’t learn in the same way that others learn.

Multiply that situation by twenty or thirty years and you get someone who falls between the cracks of modern society: a petty criminal, a homeless person, a drug addict, or, if you’re lucky, people working from one minimum wage paycheck to the next, just barely surviving, usually with the help of public assistance.

Simultaneously, lack of education also affects everyone I haven’t mentioned yet: the working middle class and wealthy. If they never learned about the real history of the world, they’re likely to repeat the same mistakes today. If they never learned about other countries, populations, and cultures, they will undoubtedly emerge from public schools with an ethnocentric viewpoint and demonstrate a disturbing intolerance for people of different ethnic backgrounds. If they didn’t study the great authors, the great artists, or the great poets, they will act in soulless ways, or without an open heart and mind. If they didn’t learn about the history of the universe, our planet, the evolution of the species, and ancient man, they will never come to appreciate the sanctity of their own lives, nor of others’ lives.

See, education does more than just keep people out of the gutter: it transforms an ordinary, closed-minded human being into a world citizen. Studying the great masters -- the philosophers, the healers, the poets, the political figures, the artists, the scientists, the revolutionaries -- is the pathway to being a great citizen of our world.

Education is everything to society. Without it, we are all just berry-hunting primates. Education is what allows us to carry memories, lessons and advances from one generation to the next. And it’s a short window: the blink of a human life. In the span of a single lifetime, we as a society must transfer the entirety of our knowledge and wisdom to the next generation. Inevitably, each of us will pass on.

Education is the keystone of civilization. And superlearning brings us the promise of accelerating our education processes so that we can, in a sense, multiply the “bandwidth” of information and wisdom being passed to our children.

Excerpted from the ebook, The 10 Most Important Emerging Technologies for Humanity, by Mike Adams, (page 55) which can be downloaded free here.

Thanks to http://www.newstarget.com, and author Mike Adams.