The Purpose of Current Education: What Are We Really Teaching Our Children?

When you drop your child off at school each morning, have you ever stopped to question what they're truly learning—and more importantly, why? Education shapes not just individual lives but entire societies. Understanding the real purpose behind our current education system reveals much about what we value as a society and what future we're creating for our children.

Preparing Children for the System

To truly understand the importance of education, I first want to tell you more about society. Education has traditionally been designed to prepare children for a task (profession) in society. The government determines what your child learns and must learn. During their school years, children learn general knowledge to be able to fulfill those tasks.

The government has chosen subjects such as language, reading, and mathematics. In these basic subjects, children learn how to read information from the government, communicate with each other, follow the news, and manage their money (salary). As children get older, they learn more about an existing profession they can practice. So school primarily supports knowledge that you need in society to survive at a basic level and live according to the rules. What children learn mainly sustains our economy.

What We're Not Teaching

For example, we learn minimal knowledge about self-healing of the body, so we must rely on the healthcare system. We learn eating habits from the food pyramid because these products are easiest to produce, not because they're healthy for us. We learn during our history lessons that we are heroes, but not how much suffering we have caused in the world. This way we can continue our national pride, but there's no chance for healing.

We learn that European men made all kinds of inventions, but did you know that many of these inventions were actually already made by women or by other societies? This curriculum feeds the national patriarchy and is a subtle but effective form of oppression of women and other nationalities.

We also learn about money, but not about smart investing. We learn how to save money, but not how to live without a job or how to retire early. This way banks have the opportunity to lend out our money for mortgages (double profit) and we remain dependent on a job. We learn that the world consists of different countries, but not that we are all human beings and therefore actually brothers and sisters of each other. We learn about different political power structures, but not about the power we have as individuals.

The Real Purpose

In short: the government teaches children the necessities to live in a system and be able to survive. Children learn how to be good employees, but not how to be good people.

A small group of children learns innovative, technical methods to make life easier and bring our society into a new technological era.

The purpose of current education is therefore not to create a happy, healthy, and stable society. After all, the government could also choose to teach your child how to be a loving and stable 'human being'. Children would then learn, for example, how to deal with negative thoughts and how to heal themselves. They would learn how to keep their energy balanced and how to set boundaries respectfully. They would learn what to expect from relationships and how to respect boundaries. Children could learn to remember their life path and their lessons from Angel School.

What Education Reveals About Society

This is all knowledge that children need to build a loving, stable society. The fact that this isn't taught says a lot about what we value as a society. Education shows the norms and values of society.

In the coming blogs, I want to tell you more about the perspective of guides and small children on education and therefore also on society. First, I'll tell you more about the needs and possibilities of children.