Not all the members of our species get it yet, but a few do.

At the heart of every crisis we currently face is the modern system of education. Our educational model churns out an advanced primate concerned with security and the desire to be important while focusing solely on how to have a good time with as little thought as possible. Education is not merely a matter of training but a method of knowing who you are and how the energy flows around you supply your basic needs.

To quote Krishnamurti, “The ignorant man is not the unlearned but the man who does not know himself. What we now call education is the accumulation of knowledge from books which anyone can do who can read.”

The problem is that governments want efficient technicians, not human beings because human beings become dangerous to governments.

In a recent TED talk, Sir Ken Robinson discusses a system of education that treats our children like pieces of an organic agricultural ecosystem instead of cogs in a machine. The fact that he is on a major platform talking about such reforms to influential people is encouraging.