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A crash course in changing the world.

Despite current efforts to change things, the education system, even in developed countries countries like the United States, fall flat on their face. Granted, the US has very good schools, perhaps even the best school, but those are available to those that can afford it, which is limited to very few people. With all that in mind, the United States are only ninth in developed countries.

We're not talking about Ivy League education, I'm taking about basic, Junior-Kindergarten to 12th Grade education. This seems to debase the reputation of the big-shot Universities to a mediocre level. I know I may be exaggerating just a tad, but bear with me.

So why are we at this level with education? It's very easy; education is strictly a left-brain activity. Of course there's sometimes art and music for kids, but these have little practical use if you want to carry them over to academic cla****, such as math, literature, and the sciences.
I am here to help change things. We have to start using our right brain. You're probably heard the fact that we're only using 10 percent of our brains capacity. This figure has also been as low as 2 percent. This is astounding. Our intelligence potential is fifty-fold what we have now, and probably more, since I believe that intelligence grows exponentially as our brain usage increases.

1. The Place
The goal here is to take this reform to the national level (Canada). The United States often takes the good parts of thriving systems such as education or healthcare (as we're seeing now), and that really isn't a negative statement if it affects the country in a positive way.

The United States may have an influence over other countries with certain aspects of government, so maybe this will spread out to several different countries.

2. The Challenge
I really want to change the education system. This is mostly because education is really the start of everything, and kids cannot get into the reputable universities. University and other post-secondary education should ideally be (in my opinion) free, or at the very least subsidized, but that's another story.

If one cannot fully grasp elementary or secondary education, there is no chance you can get into post-secondary education. Therefore, elementary and secondary education must become a polished stepping stone, or several, each one representing the grades that one goes through as they pass through high school.

Currently, the stepping stones are like the contraption Marv uses to climb up from the basement in Home Alone 2. This is a pretty accurate representation because that contraption could've fallen down at any minute, and it did after Marv and Harry finished using it.

Of course, truly brilliant kids will make it through because they think radically differently and they use different parts of their brain that isn't taught at a traditional school. If we can teach how to use those different parts of the brain that a genius uses, we'll have a new generation of highly intelligent kids, capable of solving world problems when they get older and set their mind on a goal, sort of like EVOKATION.

3. The Idea
Okay, so here's the idea. I want to gather members of right-brained-based education and put them together and form an education reform. There are specifically three members that I'd love to have together to work out this education reform.

i) Paul Scheele - Mr. Scheele has a problem entitled "The PhotoReading Wh*** Mind System", I have his audio tapes and it is incredibly effective. It takes the brain's ability to take mental images of the pages of a book of your choice and recollect them at will. This can be used for In my experience, I've been able to understand more from the books I read, and I can fly through material quicker. I haven't had anything groundbreaking, but materials are much easier the more you use it. It is actually pretty amazing and helpful.


ii) Arthur Benjamin - Mr. Art Benjamin has a book called "The Secrets of Mental Math". If you check him out, he's can multiply 3, 4, even 5 digits together faster than a calculator can. I'm only about 20 pages into the book, but my mental math has been increased exponentially. I'm very excited to finish the book to practice more. This man would be awesome on my team.


iii) Jose Silva - Jose Silva has had a huge influence on my life. I really need to get back into the "Silva Method" and the "Ultramind ESP System". Unfortunately, Jose Silva has passed on over 10 years ago, but he has a daughter who has taken the family business, and it'd be great to contact her and see if his teachings could help kids develop better study habits. He teaches mind reprogramming and going into the alpha state of mind (the supernatural level of learning). They also claim that the brain has incredible potentials, however I have not quite experienced them, but I haven't really fully immersed myself into it, I just passively learned about it.


I strongly recommend getting at least one of these learning platforms; just the "Alpha Sound" by Jose Silva, a clicking of 10 beats per second, is proof enough that it works. Just the left-to-right method by Art Benjamin improved my speed in mathematics, which is proof that it works. The fact I could tell which part of the page a certain word of the dictionary was found was proof that it works.

Just for a second, consider what all the systems put together would amount to with the average Joe. It would probably be incredible. Which is why we must implement these systems to the most people at the youngest age possible to amplify the effect.

4 - The Money
Here's what would be done with the thousand dollars: I will contact all three members to have a meeting on the education reform. I'll invite the three to bring a few associates, if they have them, and we'll discuss how we'd want school to be taught.
So contacting the three, arranging a meeting for all the members at some sort of conference at a hotel, establishing some sort of new education plan, and then proposing/lobbying it for my country's government or the United States government to integrate it.

I know it's a long shot, but it would be completely worth it in the end. Smarter, more educated kids; kids that can think for themselves. People who know a lot about a lot of things don't normally fight in wars. The future with this sort of standard education will be astounding, and I'm sick of saving top education for the rich.

Thank you.

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Comment by Julio Cesar Corona Ortega on May 17, 2010 at 4:17am
Very interesting project, Daniel.

One thing most of us can agree on here is the need for education reform, not just in certain countries, but everywhere.
Comment by sunnydupree on May 17, 2010 at 4:24am
Good work Daniel!!! excellent evokation
Comment by A.V.Koshy on May 17, 2010 at 5:54am
daniel i like your stuff...
this is a site that looks seriously at educational reform in usa
but to read it you have to pay for it though lot of stuff is free
however do some research on brain based learning, differentiating instruction and multiple intelligences theory to expand on your vision
two people you'd need to look up are howard gardner and carol anne tomlinson
your idea of getting great education to all and not just ivy leaguers in usa and canda is worth it
it is one of the biggest needs in india too
Comment by Peggie Scott on May 17, 2010 at 8:15am
Daniel, I love it! I think your idea is bold. Busy people are busy with their own projects and for you to be able to inspire your three heros to meet for YOUR project would take, I believe, conviction, tack and time. I haven't read a lot of your posts but from the little reading I have done you seems to be a facilitator in the truest sense of the word (someone who can bring together the ideas of other people without their own ideas getting in the way). All the best to you!
Comment by Peggie Scott on May 17, 2010 at 8:18am
Oh, and as a dyslexic who is, essentially, functionally illiterate (I can't learn from the written word), I applaud your thinking and your proposed approach to education.
Comment by A.V.Koshy on May 17, 2010 at 10:00am
the site is http://ascd.org
Comment by A.V.Koshy on May 17, 2010 at 10:06am
hope u dont have to pay for it
my school paid for me so....
:P
Comment by Chris Ke Sihai on May 17, 2010 at 4:57pm
Sorry, but I can't help remember George Bush claiming that soon you would have the best-educated Americans in the world!

Leaving aside my irreverence, the debate about education is massively complex and dominated by lots of people with impressive title who are unlikely to listen to you. After all, you're just the person they are being paid to help. It's not like you're anyone important or anything. Also, reforming the entire system is difficult because if you get it wrong then everyone suffers but you don't know about it until ten or twenty years later. Change will be slow, it's a lifetime task.

Personally, as a teacher, my feeling is that parents are even more influential than schools. Bad parenting results in a lack of respect for or commitment to education. If you fix that then a lot of teachers will be able to focus on teaching instead of dealing with 'resistance.'

The other issue is the legal and regulatory environment. Teachers are basically unable to do their jobs for fear of getting sued or fired. This puts the kids in control, to the detriment of all. A teacher, first and foremost, should be the person who sets the agenda in the classroom - with the support of parents.

Have you checked out the Montessori schools? They are way cool places for kids. Totally in line with your philosphy.

And just to throw a googly into your thinking, Chinese language is processed in the right hemisphere of the brain and this results in totally different ways of thinking about the world. Maybe just pressing for compulsory Chinese language education would be the best thing to do? I'm sure the PRC would happily send a million volunteer teachers if you asked.

Finally, although the USA often ranks below other countries in standardised tests, the news is not necessarily bad. The tests mostly measure your ability to find the "right" answer, and often require a great deal of rote learning, exactly the thing you're complaining about. On the other hand, the USA excels above all other nations at innovating it's way out of problems. Real life is a lot more complex and unpredictable than any simulation or text book problem, and the USA is generally more tolerant of the kind of trial-and-error experimentation necessary to find solutions than other countries.

I know there's room for improvement, there always is, but work with what you have. It's not all bad, and you'll need a pilot program anyway.

Have you considered hooking up with the home schooling association? http://americanhomeschoolassociation.org/
Comment by Turil Cronburg on May 17, 2010 at 6:25pm
I WISH the kids were in charge. But I've certainly never seen that in any classroom...
Comment by Daniel Pisani on May 17, 2010 at 7:55pm
@ Koshy, yep. It costs money.
@ Chris. I hear it's that learning to read right to left is what uses the right hemisphere. Maybe learning Mandarin or Cantonese as a second language would be good. Those languages are rapidly expanding.
A way to teach parents about the new things going on is to literally teach them how to do those things, such as Photoreading and Mental Math, etc. Having an extended parent/teacher night or a seminar to teach these things would encourage parents to encourage their kids, because they know those methods actually work and won't fall under the "New Age" label.
And just another thing, I live in Canada, close to the States, but still probably not eligible for American based programs.

Thank you for your opinions.

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