The School's Mission

The ultimate mission of the school is to keep the curiosity of every child alive!

Even though it sounds like a simple, almost banal statement, I’d like to accompany you into my very own perception about what mainstream schools are doing nowadays, and since quite a few decades already.

Unfortunately the structures and schedules of the schools are mostly killing the very natural desires that resides in every child, leading to frustration, disillusion and quite often a complete confusion about the talents and inclinations each child comes with, often leading individuals to choose a career based on material reasons and false images of success.

I heard too many stories of teenagers and young adults frustrated with the choices they have made, working a job that doesn’t resonate with their inner Self, living a live of dissatisfaction and sadness.

But even more often I hear stories of youngsters who are completely unaware and doubtful about their future choices, having to face the results of the repression they have been forced into, through the many years of disconnectedness and psychological numbness they’ve been experiencing.

They may seem like harsh and perhaps provocative statements, but I think they are very real, and I want to explain once more why.

We are all born with a fascinating call for discovery. It’s very obvious when we watch a young child to understand it. Newborns and toddlers are simply interested in everything around them! They want to reach, touch and taste everything. Their very first months are the exemplary demonstration of this infinite curiosity!

With the time, their interests are slowly forming due to many factors within and without them. Cultural believes and habits, society, images, uses within the family and community surrounding them, personal taste and inclination, and dozens of other factors.

But as a matter of fact, kids love learning new things.

As we all know, they then start showing their own character, which is very much conditioned from external factors too (like transmitted fears from parents, personal tastes of siblings, etc), and therefore show certain inclinations to certain particular things, subjects, games and so on.

It is the duty of us parents, to recognize, support and nourish these particular directions and desires of our children.

Unfortunately, once children enter the traditional educational system, these inclinations are slowly numbed, day after day, year after year. How’s that? Well, through the standardized approach school reserves to each and everyone of them. Unless a child has a really strong way to show its interest and keep tight onto it, the approach that most teacher have (subordinated to the requests of educational departments) and the workload they are subjected to (homework, study, evaluations, tests, exams, etc) will demand (force) to the student more and more time to keep up to the requested standards  (= grades).

Parents who grew up with this system will unconsciously partner up with schools and teachers, who unconsciously persevere with this approach.

It is not rare to hear parents report, or students say, that a child had to stop going to art class, or soccer, or any other activity, in order to keep up with the demands of the school! Complete madness!

Instead of nourishing the individual talents and qualities, we force people to uniform with the standards, as if the beauty of this world were given by the uniformity, standardization and equality of all things… I believe it is exactly the opposite!

This blindness, the fear to change that governments show and the sacrifices we demand to our kids, are ultimately resulting into young adults who become very much disconnected from real values, and even more so from their inner Self.

Try to talk about these themes with colleagues and friends. Ask them if they love their jobs. Ask them what kind of hobby they have. Ask them if they’re happy about working their but off in order to bring money home, and eventually being able to use some left-overs to enjoy doing that hobby they like so much. And ask them if they had a hobby, a passion, back when they were young, that they desired and thought could have become their job in their adulthood.

I’m repeating again that we are all different, and therefore we need many different schools, as we need many different religions, political parties, gurus, teachers, spiritual masters, etc.
Each one of us will feel his inner cords resonating with one or the other, in every different field of life.

But education is too important to be neglected and ignored. We can’t postpone a change to happen no more. We must think deeply, and take action.
Parents can’t continue complaining about all the problems they see and feel, and do nothing about it!
Bringing a child to the psychologist, keeping him or her into the house until is adult, changing many schools and careers, being unsatisfied and unhappy with the job… these are all things I don’t wish to my children!

I personally know that something must change, if we want things for our children to get better in the future!