Children in the World Today
"The teacher has the greatest role in molding the future of the country. Of all professions, his is the noblest, the most difficult and the most important."
Sathya Sai Baba

By
Dr. Joshua David Stone

This chapter may be the most important one in this series of books. This problem is certainly one of the most urgent problems confronting humanity at this time in its history. The problem of the children in the world today is very complex. However, let us begin with the realization of how utterly inadequate our educational system is.

The sole purpose of life is to achieve God realization, liberation, immortality, ascension, and resurrection, so we may be of greater service to mankind. Our educational system has utterly failed in this regard. Instead of focusing on building character, moral values, ethics, elevating spiritual ideals, right human relationships, right living, virtue, soul and spiritual consciousness, it has one hundred percent decapicitated the soul from all facets of learning.

This stems from political decisions of schools being secular, so politicians have attempted to separate church and state. Although, maybe meaning well, they have thrown the baby out with the bath water.

Education has become a physical and mental instruction completely devoid of soul consciousness. Instead of dealing with the whole person, we are now dealing with only a half a person, and the most important half, and the only purpose for living, is the part they have gotten rid of.

Now let me speak to this issue of separation of church and state. The reason they did this was to prevent groups like the self righteous fundamentalist Christians, and moral majority from imposing their egocentric values on other people in school. In this sense they did us a favor. The problem is that it is totally not acceptable to get rid of spirituality from school all together.

There is another answer. The only answer is to re-integrate the teaching of spirituality back into school, but to do it in the context of teaching comparative religion and one universal religion. (See chapter, "Essential Unity of All Religious Thought").

In other words, all religions could be taught with the requirement that no one religion could be made better than any other religion. This, of course, would take special training for the teachers who will eventually be required. Another way around this problem is to teach spirituality rather than religion. Even right now, there should be classes on the development of morals, ethics, character building spiritual values, right human relationships, to name just a few.

Education now is totally materially and egotistically based. The total focus is to make a living, accumulate possessions, to be as materialistically successful as possible, and as comfortable as possible. Our education system breeds competitiveness, pride, ego, nationalistic prejudice, separativeness, and superiority from other people, cultures, and nations.

World citizenship is not emphasized. One's responsibility to one's fellowmen is completely ignored. Our education system is an exercise in stuffing and cramming massive amounts of unrelated meaningless facts into our minds to get a good grade. We forget that in a very short time education is an exercise in short term memory development. It is devoid of enjoyment. The older one gets and he or she is going through school, the more goal oriented (instead of process oriented) the person becomes. It is a means to an end.

If you happen to enjoy something it is a pleasant surprise where most of the time it is a lesson in self discipline. College is even worse. Those that make it to the higher professions are complete neurotics. That is the definition of success. You definitely can't be a whole complete and balanced person and compete to make it to the cream of the crop in your given profession.

Sai Baba has said that the most precious gift a young person can learn in school is the precious gift of character. He has also said that politics without principles, education without character, science without humanity and commerce without morality are not only useless but positively dangerous.

This is the predicament we find ourselves in the world today in all four categories. Without integrating soul consciousness into our educational system in some universal, eclectic, non biased manner, we are training our leaders of the future to be intellectually developed, however spiritually retarded.

Is it any wonder why politicians are so corrupt, lawyers and doctors, on the whole, so egocentric; why scientists are so incredibly cruel to animals; why half the businesses we utilize will overcharge us to make an extra buck if they can get away with it.

Our children are getting degrees and they don't have inner peace or happiness. They are not right with themselves or right with God. They are ill equipped for marriage, let alone having children. Is it any wonder there is so much child abuse.

Schools, instead of just focusing on reading, writing, arithmetic, history, and geography, should be adding classes in self mastery, learning to own your personal power, how to develop self love, learning to integrate your three minds, proper diet and nutrition, meditation, the seven levels of initiation, how to integrate the monad, soul, and personality, how to balance your seven chakras, studying the saints of all religions, comparative religion, angels, the Spiritual Hierarchy, the evolution of minerals, plants, and animals, death and dying, the science of the bardo, the soul, how to build the antakarana, studying the scriptures of the world, art appreciation, music appreciation, how to transcend negative ego and duality, how to channel, how to utilize your right and left brain, mantras and words of power, ethics and moral training, psychic self defense, extra terrestrial civilizations, spiritual ways of doing business, how to be a spiritual politician, psychic development, balancing our four bodies, understanding the law of karma, and the story of creation from the different religions.

Wouldn't school be fun if this were the curriculum. I am not saying that we shouldn't teach reading, writing and arithmetic. Of course we should. It should, however, be balanced with classes on soul development. What does it matter if you go through twenty years of school and get a Ph.D. and then you are a raving egomaniac. If you do not integrate soul consciousness into the schools, then by definition, you are teaching negative ego consciousness and this is an indisputable fact.

Are these the leaders we want for our future? This is exactly what we are training. You cannot separate spirituality and/or soul from life. This is exactly what our ego based politicians have done. We do need protection from the conservative and reactionary fundamentalists in all churches and religions, but we have gone to the other extreme.

You may think the classes I have mentioned above will not make it into regular school. Mark my word, in the not too distant future when the Lord Maitreya makes His declaration along with the externalization of the Spiritual Hierarchy, a radical transformation will begin to ensue which will change all the existing ego based institutions on this planet. I prophesy that within thirty years this will take place.

Our educational systems should prepare us for living not just to get an "A" on a report card, or to get into a good college. There should be required classes teaching us how to have an effective marriage, and to be good parents. Most parents are completely ill-qualified for this adventure.

There should be required classes in birth control, and AIDS awareness. There should also be classes in teaching your people how to develop self mastery and control over the physical, emotional, and mental bodies. How to control the desires of the body in service of unconditional love and soul purposes.

Children should be taught in an atmosphere of unconditional love and firmness. This is sadly lacking in our schools today. A lot of what I am suggesting requires our teachers to be the embodiment of these ideals. If our teachers don't embody these ideals how can the children learn them?

Don't you see the vicious cycle we are in. Education, as it is practiced today, hardens hearts and squeezes out any semblance of unconditional love and compassion. We are taught that it is a dog eat dog world out there and it is every man for himself. It's the law of the jungle so you better get good grades and get into a good college.

Who would you rather be, the egotistical Harvard lawyer, or the uneducated person who lives and practices a simple Christ consciousness? God doesn't care about degrees or higher education if this is what it is used for. It is a waste of time! The key question is always, "What is the purpose of life? " "Why have you incarnated into this physical body?" The answer is to realize God. Education as it now is practiced does not lead our children in this direction.

The crisis on character is at the right of all problems. Schools should be teaching truth, righteousness, humility, equanimity, service of others. Instead we are taught selfishness and materialistic ambition. Children don't need nine tenths of the useless knowledge that is crammed into their heads.

The average child goes to school from the age of five to the age of 22 or even twenty five if they go to college. They are in school for twenty years, five days a week. Can you imagine what could be done if our educational system had its head screwed on straight?

Another example of its imbalance is the total focus on left brain forms of education and the total rejection of all right brain form of education. I am picking on our education system here, however, in truth, it is going on in all institutions and aspects of our society.

Look at our prison system. It is one hundred percent egotistically based. Prisons are based totally on the premise of punishment and suffering, which is not a spiritual concept. They should be based on tough love, which is geared towards rehabilitation. Our prisons are filled and our reform schools are filled because of the lack of spiritual and moral training in our schools.

You may say why don't they get this training in church or temples? The problem is that the ego has completely infiltrated all our religious institutions. If man isn't right with his self, he projects his wrong relationship to self on to everything in his life including God.

People are leaving traditional religion in droves. Look at how people are turned off by the fundamentalist Christian movement, or the moral majority, the Jews, Jesus. I don't mean to be judgmental or pick out any particular group. All the major religions have been twisted and distorted by man's allowing his ego, rather than his soul to interpret scripture.

When God is seen as punishing, judgmental, sin, hell, original sin, eternal damnation, who would want to go to church! Traditional religion, in its present form, is completely bankrupt. I will speak to these issues much more in the chapter on how glamour, maya, illusion and ego have infiltrated the world's religions. For now I will just say the traditional churches of western civilizations need a major overhaul before they will be useful in this regard.

The fact is, a child may only be required to go to church on Sunday and listen to a boring stuffy sermon and that is not going to do the trick. Children who go to religious school are going to have a whole other set of psychological and spiritual problems dealing with the guilt, fear, and self righteousness, that is pummeled into them.

Religious institutions won't be the answer either until they cleanse the negative ego, glamour, maya, and illusion from their understanding of their doctrine, and accept the fact of a "universal religion" that recognizes that there are many paths to God. This will happen in the not to distant future as we move into the next millennium and the golden age on this planet.

We are just about to come out of the dark ages on this planet. I bet you thought that the dark ages was in the sixteen hundreds. Not true. We have had World War I, World War II, and we came very close to World War III which would have been nuclear destruction to the entire planet. People have no idea how close we came to taking this course. By the grace of God, it seems that mankind has been more intelligent than they were in Atlantis. We almost did a repeat. We still have a ways to go yet.

The next twenty years will be more accelerated than any time in the history of this planet. As I have said in previous chapters, we are about to do an axis shift from ego to soul thinking. This will mean a breaking down and destroying all our old institutions and the coming rebirth of these institutions based on soul principles and the Christ consciousness.

The other institution that needs total revamping is the political system. It is sickening to watch the partisan politics, where politicians do not serve their soul. They serve their Republican or Democratic party or special interest group.

Lobbyists are basically practicing legalized bribery. Politics is a classic example of what happens to a nation when we choose leaders who are highly developed mentally and totally undeveloped spiritually. Unless we change our educational system we can expect more of the same from our future leaders.

I would like to change course here for a little while before I return to the educational needs of our children and adolescents. I would like to focus on the problems that children face in our modern day society.

Our modern day society presents a whole new set of problems for children that mankind did not have to deal with in ancient times. Children are confronted with enormous amounts of negativity and negative programming in our "modern world". Let us begin this discussion with television.

Recent studies have ascertained that the average family watches something like six hours of television a day. Unfortunately the soul and Higher Self does not guide or control television in this period of our history. Little children watch cartoons that are incredibly violent. Ninety eight percent of the shows on television breed egotistical values. The airwaves are filled with violence, sex, machoism, beautiful people that totally program our children's subconscious minds.

It must be understood that children and adolescents, by definition, do not have developed conscious minds to protect themselves from negative programming. The soul doesn't usually even fully inhabit the mental body till the age of 21. Being emotionally based, and more subconsciously based they are hyper-suggestible. They are in hypnosis most of the time. The television they watch and the movies they go to see at the theaters goes directly into their subconscious minds.

The second thing that children have to deal with of a negative nature is that enormous amount of junk food and sugar they are confronted with. Since by definition, they have not obtained self-mastery, and most children are run by their desire body, once they get junk food and sugar into their bodies it becomes like a drug and they want more. Even the schools feed it to them. On every street corner through the city there is a fast food restaurant or ice cream parlor. The older they get the less control parents have over this facet of their children's life.

The junk food creates all kinds of chemical imbalances and a most definite lowering of the immune system from the sugar, also. This has its effect on the emotional body. Children and adolescents are unbalanced enough with the rapid physical growth and hormones that are being created during this stage of their development. Children are often dealing with a lot of negativity in their peer groups.

Children and adolescents, being emotionally-based, go through a great deal of ups and downs. The older they get, the more lessons they are confronted with in school which they are not prepared for, such as relationships, sexuality, dating, money, college, and so on.

Many children come into this life with karmic lessons from past lives of low self-esteem, lack of self worth, guilts, fears, inhibitions. Many other children come from dysfunctional families, or families with divorces which can be very difficult on the children. Then there is the issue of child abuse, and sexual molestation which is so rampant in our society.

Parents sometimes take their adolescents to counselors or psychologists. This brings us to another bankrupt system in our society. Being a psychotherapist, myself, and growing up in a family with two psychotherapists, I am very attuned to this topic. I don't know if you are aware of this, but I would say ninety eight percent of all counselors, psychologists, psychiatrists, and social workers are practicing a form of psychology that is, again, cut off from the soul and the Higher Self. This is not to say that they are completely ineffective for they are not. They do some good. However, it is like what Einstein said about using only 8% of our brain.

Spiritual psychology and/or soul psychology is ten thousand times more effective and useful than forms of psychology that are not connected to the spiritual aspect of life. Here again, the child or adolescent is confronted with a lack of the complete help he or she needs. (I have written an entire chapter on this issue called "Soul Psychology, as Compared to Traditional Psychology", so I would refer you to this for a deeper explanation.)

We are saying how all the institutions in our society are not supporting the child properly. The child is bombarded also by the news that the parents watch, which is filled with a total focus on negativity. The news media feels compelled, for some strange unknown reason, to focus on every murder and crime that is going on throughout the world. If God controlled the news, I am sure He would have it be more focused on what is going on that is good in the world also. However, as we all know, the news is not focused on self realization, but on "ratings".

It is also a fact that the Trilateral Commission and secret government control the news, so nothing of real interest like extra terrestrial activity, or something of this sort will ever get through. A child has to constantly hear and get programmed by all the fearful things that are going on in the world and they don't have the tools for psychic self defense that those in the spiritual movement have. Their lack of training in un-conditional love, by definition, creates fear and children are filled with it.

Then children and adolescents have to deal with all the commercials on TV, in advertising, and magazines that appeal to their desire bodies of which they are not in control Without spiritual training and ideals to hold on to it is inevitable that the lower self is going to win out and be in control. Children and adolescents, then, without the spiritual Masters and saints of all religions as their role models, take on those from TV, movies, and magazines.

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Tom Cruise, Playboy and Play Girl images that fill the mind with stereotypes and addictive love. Then the music young people listen to are filled with lyrics of a similar type of programming based completely on egotistical principles. All this music is programming the subconscious mind just like a hypnosis sleep tape would.

Then as the adolescent gets a little older they are confronted with pornography which is a creator of the carnal lower self. Without spiritual training there is absolutely no reason not to indulge in it which just reinforces all those images in the subconscious mind and is a type of training to treat people and the opposite sex as objects.

I cannot emphasize this enough, that there are only two types of people in the world. There are soul attuned people or egotistical people (over identified with matter) and that is it. There are only two emotions in the world, love and fear. Children are confronted in the world we are living in, of getting no soul consciousness training.

Is it any wonder there is so much crime, juvenile delinquents, gangs, drug addition, cult followers, sexual promiscuity, aids, physical sickness, cancer, emotional sickness, suicides, unhappiness and lack of inner peace, child abuse, molestation, divorces, people in therapy, social unrest, people in prison, war, prejudice, pettiness, ego battles, fear, anxiety, guilt, false pride. The list is endless.

Once the ego gets control, then it infiltrates every aspect of society, including religion. It is quite obvious that children and adolescents are dealing with an enormous amount of negativity. Without proper spiritual and psycho-spiritual training they are doomed to have serious problems in their lives. They are doomed to live in the school of hard knocks also known as karma. The last bastion of hope for a child and adolescent is the parent, and family system.

Given the total lack of support of the traditional institutions for our children, and in reality the negativity they are perpetrating, the parents role becomes a thousand times even more important. In my opinion, as a psychotherapist and as a spiritual teacher, parents are much too lenient with kids. In my opinion, I think they should have much more strict control over their children's physical, emotional, and mental diet.

There is so much negativity and temptations in our modern society that adolescents and children are prone to. Parents are in the position to demonstrate the ideal, the conscious minds that children or adolescents don't have. They should only be given as much rope as they show themselves responsible with.

They should be watched extremely closely. They also need to be raised in an environment of unconditional love. Firmness and love, or tough love is the ticket. As long as they live in your house they follow your rules. It is the parents in our modern society that the spiritual and moral training falls upon.

The mother, in truth, is the guru for the children, especially up to the age of five years old. This is true for it is the mother who spends most of the time with the child. At five years old the fathers come much more into play. It is very important in the younger years that the mother spend as much time as possible bonding with the children. So much of our programming for our future personality in this lifetime takes place in these formative years.

An enormous responsibility falls on the parents in this period of our history. If parents fail in this responsibility there is literally no hope for the child. It is the parents who can educate the children about the universality of religions, and the great saints and masters. When you read them stories, read them spiritual stories that will inspire their consciousness with noble and lofty goals and ideals.

The unfortunate state of affairs in our society is that most parents are not competent to guide their children in these matters. They have been too screwed up by their parents and the educational system which they have gone through. They tend to dote on the child too much and have reprehensible habits themselves. They smoke, drink too much, gamble, play cards, fight in the home, gossip, judge. The only hope for children is that the parents and teachers of this world are going to have to transform their own consciousness, otherwise they can't teach that which they don't embody.

Sai Baba has said that, "parents must feel that they are servants appointed by the Lord to tend the little souls that are born in their households, as the gardener tends the trees in the garden of the Master."

In the future every child at birth will get an astrological chart and workup done. This is common practice in the Hindu culture. Other things that parents should do is have a ray analysis and profile done on the child.

Parents also might consider having a spiritual profile done for the child by a skilled psychic or channel to determine the age of the soul, place in ladder of evolution, mystic tendencies or lack thereof. Last, a vocational profile and workup is recommended for the adolescent to determine whether this soul extension would be better suited for mental or physical work.

Parents must also understand that there is really no such thing as children. There are only adult souls living in babies bodies. Each incarnated personality has had anywhere from 200 to 300 past lives. It is also important to realize that parents are not really the parents. Parents are only the creator of the physical body. God created the soul. So in reality each parent co-parents with God.

In our modern day society this is completely forgotten and not understood. In the Hawaiian philosophy, the Higher Self is called the "aumakua". This is defined in Hawaii as the "utterly trustworthy parental self". We as parents are meant to co-parent with the "utterly trustworthy parental self", or that incarnated personality's Higher Self.

Children are born with very distinct skills, abilities, personalities, and character traits. There needs to be a fine balance by the parents of teaching, training, molding, and providing guidelines in moral and ethical training, along with also allowing the child's soul to have expression. This is not an easy job.

The best thing a parent can do in raising a child is to learn to be right with self and right with God. It is parents who have not achieved this and try to live through their children, that creates serious problems for both parties concerned. If the parents dedicate their lives to a path of God realization, then this will get energetically, and by example, programmed into the children.

Many parents are so busy that the child spends all its time at school, with friends, with baby sitters, maid, and these then become the role models from which the child learns. It is important for the parents to prepare food for their children. Otherwise they will eat junk food, and it must be remembered that this food is filled with the energy of the people who prepared it. If you prepare it, it will be done with love and filled with your life force. If other people prepare your child's food, it will most likely be of a depleting nature. Over time all these things take their toll on the four body system.

In every home there should be a little shrine of some kind, a place for prayer, meditation, repeating the name of God, reading scripture, and so on. The activating of divine qualities such as discrimination, renunciation, keenness of intellect, peace, truth, righteousness, helping others, non-judgmentalness, patience, and unconditional love should be stressed and praised. In your shrine stress the equality of all religions and all the great prophets and saints from all religions.

When children are very young it is a fantastic idea to talk to them while they are sleeping. Tell them how much you love them and how much God loves them. When they are sleeping they are in somnambulistic hypnosis. They are totally hyper-suggestable to all programming. You can even make a tape and play it while they sleep.

Fill them with thoughts of self-love, personal power, courage, strength, confidence, faith, trust, and God attunement. You can say whatever you want as long as it is positive and uplifting. If your child is having a problem, I would recommend you do this every night for two straight months. It will work wonders. The Responsibility of Teachers

Education in our present system is the term given to the art of collecting information in the objective world. The far more important task of education is transforming the nature of man into the divine. If this doesn't take place, the opposite takes place where one is unconsciously taught to live like an animal.

Too often teachers are more concerned about being paid for a job, instead of seeing the divine responsibility that has been placed within their hands. Real education is helping the child to manifest the divinity that is latent within him. It is essential that a moral fiber underlie even the worldly studies in school that need to take place.

It is also essential for the teacher to create an atmosphere in the classroom of unconditional love and nonjudgmentalness. Children must be taught the true joy of learning. If the curriculum were more balanced between worldly and soul education, I am sure this would happen.

Education has, in the past, provided the child ultimately with the goal of achieving a livelihood. In the future this will be balanced with the education to have a "life worth living". It is the teacher that makes the school or harms it. The teacher shapes the manners, behavior, attitudes, and even prejudices of the pupils under his or her care.

Sai Baba has described the educational system metaphorically like a bank. He says, "The educational system is the bank on which the nation draws a cheque whenever it wants strong, reliable, skilled workers. If it goes bankrupt, it is a national disaster." This is the situation we find ourselves in this day.

The lack of spiritual and moral training has created masses of humanity that are not whole, balanced, integrated people. They are fragmented. They are developed intellectually and physically, but not emotionally, psychologically and spiritually.

It is good that the educational system at least has given intellectual and professional training. This is not enough. It is like an apple that looks sweet and ripe to eat, but the core is rotten. Our soul is our core and true self. Parents and teachers must work together to prepare children and adolescents for the time when they move out on their own. If they have not received the proper psychological and spiritual training they will be taken over by the temptations of the lower self. As master Yoda said, "They will get seduced by the dark side of the force."

What if you have a man who is obviously highly educated, goes far in the political system and yet gets seduced by the dark side and begins to serve the Dark Brotherhood? As the Bible says, "so what that you gain the whole world (or even become president) but lose your own soul." When such a person dies it is not his worldly accomplishments that he will be judged on, but rather his soul accomplishments.

If our teachers stray from the path of truth our entire society will suffer and it has. The true purpose of school should be also to teach the science of the soul and self, and to teach the young to transcend the lower self and negative ego.

If every teacher transformed 100 students in the ideals I have been speaking of, the entire country would be transformed. Education should open the inner eye, not just the outer eye. This is the balance that must be achieved. Prayer could be incorporated into schools that does not basically push any one form of religion or religious figurehead. The child could be allowed to choose whichever one they want on their own.

Children should also be trained in school and at home in dealing with their sexuality. They need to be trained as they get older in learning how to raise this energy into the higher chakras for use in creativity, physical strength, and mental clarity. Too much of this energy is often dissipated and/or a preoccupation at the second chakra takes place. it is only the drive to soul realization that will balance this most powerful of all human drives and instincts. The will to seek God is the only drive that is more powerful.

Two of the most important ideals that every child in school should be taught is the value of the individual and the fact of one humanity. The realization of this may require the rewriting of many of the textbooks that are now in use. These ideals will help break the stranglehold of nationalistic tendencies, separativeness, and competition.

This will foster a more cooperative consciousness. An atmosphere of love, patience, understanding will hence be fostered in all aspects of life. This will lead to an ultimate goal of world citizenship, and eventually universal citizenship. This will occur when the extraterrestrial cover-up by our government is uncovered.

Djwhal Khul, in the Alice Bailey book, "Problems of Humanity", has suggested that educators lay emphasis on the following:

1. A developing mental control of the emotional nature for children.
2. Vision or the capacity to see beyond what is, to what might be.
3. Inherited, factual knowledge upon which it will be possible to superimpose the wisdom of the future.
4. Capacity wisely to handle relationships and to recognize and assume responsibility.
5. The power to use the mind in two ways:
a. As the common sense mind, that analyzes and synthesizes information conveyed to it by the five senses.
b. As the search light, penetrating into the world of ideas and abstract truth.

It is interesting that in school educators put so much importance on IQ or the intelligence quotient. In the future they will be much more interested in the SQ (the soul quotient). I foresee a time when psychological testing may become balanced with spiritual testing in the schools, trained astrologers, psychics, channelings, and ray analysis specialists. Once we move into the golden age on this planet this is a distinct possibility although it may be 50 to 100 years down the road.

Educators will focus on the problems of youth from instinctual, emotional, intellectual, and intuitional potentiality. Currently they have made the intellectual aspect their God, to the neglect of the rest of the whole person.

Educators must understand that educating children for citizenship in the kingdom of God is not just a religious activity for the churches. This would be like saying that spirituality has no place in politics, or the prison system. Sadly enough this is exactly what has happened in all of our institutions on this planet. We have separated soul and spirituality from life itself. The whole purpose of life is to bring heaven to earth and integrate it in a balanced, eclectic, universal manner.

Psychology will be much more important in the future. Children will be taught who the central "I" is that thinks, feels, and acts. Most children and adolescents have very little sense of self. and disidentification from their emotions, desires, thoughts, instincts, and vital forces. This lack of training in psychology in schools has caused most children and adolescents to be run by their energies and bodies, instead of the "central I" causing one's reality.

Ideals such as the golden rule will be more emphasized instead of the absolute preoccupation with materialistic objectives that exist now. Instead of the training in memory, and the regurgitation of ill-digested facts, education will focus on teaching children to really learn how to think and use their minds. Finally, there will be classes on the "soul", and what it is, and how the child can incorporate and integrate it into their lives.

In the future, Djwhal Khul has suggested the creation of an international system of education by teachers from throughout the world. This would accelerate the potential for world peace by leaps and bounds. This will lead to a type of world democracy where all people, regardless of race, religion, nationality, or skin color will be seen as equals. Differences between people will be honored and respected, however the essential unity of all people emphasized.

The educators of the future will have to be more like psychologists and spiritual teachers facilitating the development of the whole person rather than just academic intellectuals cramming meaningless facts down their student's throats.

In conclusion, teachers, families, principalities, parents, politicians, ministers, rabbis, counselors, volunteer workers, must all work together to correct this imbalance in our educational system. Our children are severely paying the price for the future of our great country.