More student choice at school

Question: Nowadays, children and teenagers are forced to go to school, but they are required to pass specific exams. The younger generation faces compulsion from the state machine, and often from their parents, who demand academic progress from their children. All this can harm their character, causing school bullying and other problems as well. I know that the ascended masters have said that children should be taught psychology and something directly related to practical life. However, should we not start by allowing children at any age to choose subjects and educational settings voluntarily or exclude them from the program if they so choose?


Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2024 New Year webinar

Well, what you run into is that many nations have a specific agenda for the educational system. And if you look back at communism and even look at Russia today, you see clearly that the state wants to, should we say, brainwash children to accept certain ideas. And it is not that this is not found in the West as well, or other nations. There are many times where a state has a certain agenda. And a part of that agenda is, of course, to bring up children that can be useful to the business world and that can fit into society and will abide by the norms and standards of society.

This is one aspect. And in order to give people, children more freedom in the educational system, well, you would have to overcome that aspect. But you do, of course, see in some nations that there are more alternatives than state-sponsored education. It is clear that beyond this desire for the state to educate children a certain way, there is also a practical reality. If you are creating a state educational system, a nationwide educational system, well, there is the practical reality of how diversified it can be. The more diversification, the more resources you need. The more choices you give children, the more resources you need to devote to this. Therefore, you can say that as a practical reality, you could have, at least in an interim period, a state educational system that is somewhat standardized. And then you could have private schools that are an alternative for those parents who want their children to have more choices. But, of course, in the golden age, educational systems will be more diversified and children will have more free choices.

Now, what you run into here is that: “Can a five-year-old child really choose how it wants to be educated? Can it choose what it wants to study? Does it have enough experience and awareness to do this?” You have to give children a foundation. Therefore, you could say that you could create a basis education, the minimum education of what children needed to learn. And this could be, you know, reading, writing, some basic math, some basic awareness of society, but it should also and will, in the golden age, include psychology, so that children learn to work on their psychology. And you could then have an educational system that uses this education in psychology to identify children with specific psychological issues, often coming from past lives, as we have talked about many times. And then you would say that you could help all children find a program for resolving psychology that they could follow. And when they had reached a certain level of resolution of psychology, then you could present them with a wider array of choices for their further education.

That way, you would give people a solid foundation to start on, you would help them resolve psychology, so that they could make better choices of what they actually want to do. In many cases, the children who do not function well in an educational system, it is because they have such severe psychological issues that they cannot really function with other people. For these children, it is not really a matter of giving them more choices. It is a matter of saying: “What is the psychological issue that this child needs to resolve?”, so that it can make better choices about its future, instead of rebelling against the educational system as a means to avoid dealing with a psychological issue, or just because the child is so wrapped up in the psychological issue that it cannot do anything else. You see what I am saying? There is a balance between saying: “Oh, here are some children that do not want to be taught the traditional way. And we should give them as much freedom as possible.” versus saying: “Is it possible that this child has some psychological issues, and it would be better to resolve those before it is allowed to choose how it wants to be educated?”

There is a balance to be found, and in the golden age, as you move further and further into the golden age, they will be more and more focused on the psychology of the child. Because there will be the realization that the primary function of the educational system is not to fill the child’s mind with knowledge, but actually to help the child resolve its psychology and put it on a constructive track for the rest of its life.

 

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