WHYS at Civicus: The editorial meeting

You are not considering the root of all problems - education. That is the place we train our young, our analysts and our leaders. By cutting down on curriculum and thereby cutting down on knowledge and skills, and also dragging the masses via the media into the current and the prevailing rhetoric, we are not giving the people any opportunity to discuss and analyze anything. This is clearly obvious from the kind of questions the participants asked. You cannot have any worthwhile debate on those questions because their answers are obvious. These questions are like asking what is the color of the white horse of Napoleon? The fact is that the participants are the products of our disintegrating educational system and unless we fix education, we cannot fix anything. This is becoming even more difficult because we are now living in the twitter and the face book age where everything posted is not more than a few tweets. And if it is, no one reads it. We are and especially our youth are the "whatever generation" because that is their pet answer to any question you ask. Reforming education is not as difficult as we are making it to be. This is also a reflection of how little we know about what is happening to education the world. The answer is to integrate not fragment knowledge. See: www.centerforintegrativelearning.org