Education
Research Sphere

“Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.”

– John W Gardner
Author, Former U.S. Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare
Research Overview

Evolving Education for a Planetary Society

It is widely acknowledged in popular discourse that the health of any society is substantially determined by the quality of education available to its citizens. This is because the quality of education directly impacts the functioning of a social system, including its government, economy, technological development, and the quality-of-life attainable by individuals living within that system.

In order to make possible a more harmonious and cooperative civilization at the scale of a planet, an educated and informed population becomes even more vital. It promotes understanding across cultures, builds confidence and economic opportunity, reduces fear, superstition and violence, improves health, and makes the world a safer and more peaceful place to live.

In this sphere of research, we will explore some of the factors causing dysfunction, as well as opportunities to improve the state of education systems around the world.

Education Sphere Strategies

The goal of consciously evolving a major sector of human society is a complex undertaking. These sectors, or spheres, are complex systems that involve nuanced relationships between many parts and also with the environment. These relationships give rise to collective outcomes and behaviors that are difficult to see as a whole. In addition, people who participate in and are affected by these systems come from different backgrounds with different belief systems, and therefore tend to draw different conclusions about the best way to solve them.

Within this dynamic, strategies for solving problems are put forth that address various aspects of the system, and reflect different beliefs and perspectives. Even strategies that have historically failed are often championed again because different people have different interpretations of history, and therefore draw different conclusions about what works and what doesn’t.

With this in mind, the intent of this page is simply to illuminate, in general terms, various strategies within the collective mind that aim to close the gap between today’s reality and the future potential of this sphere of human activity. The strategies are not meant to be comprehensive solutions, but general approaches or paths forward.

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