Sendai, Japan: A school girl sheds tears during her graduation ceremony at Rokugou junior high school in a city badly damaged by this month's earthquake and tsunami.
Source:- Photograph: Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP/Getty Images
"Tears are the silent language of grief."
Voltaire
A graduation ceremony.
For and to what purpose?
Where does one go from here?
Todays children are in an education sytem that doesn´t empower them. One that kills their spirit and destroys the family unit.
What is there that motivates or inspires them?
It is mostly an upfront, non-participatory, left-brained, visual and auditory "stimulation".
The children are graded on their ability to regurgitate the gobbledygook that is presented to them, disallowing critical thinking, creativity and/or analysis of the infromation presented to them.
Far too many hours are spent inside buildings and less time is spent outside exploring nature.
Subjects such as tolerance, love, respect and wisdom are hard to find, unless you have a teacher who is aware of the "bigger picture".
I just read an article by John Taylor Gatto
Against school
In it he said:-
"School trains children to be employees and consumers; teach your own to be leaders and adventurers. School trains children to obey reflexively; teach your own to think critically and independently."
I wonder about the tears, shed by the girl in that photo.
Is there a deeper understanding having seen the ravaged landscape so close to home?
Are they tears for humanity or her own uncertain future?
A recognition that things have no permanence, no matter what education you had?
I don´t know...
but
what I do know is
memento mori
That which dies
is a human vessel.
The spirit lives on.
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