How do you teach wisdom in a knowledge-based economy that value school-based syllabus and subjects?

Question

In a cosmopolitian society we live now, how do we teach the young the gift of wisdom about the universe? About seeing the BIG picture and making strategic decision to benefit the earth; instead of 'blind knowledge' that is destructive for future generations? Does an inquisitive mind get rewarded in our affluent society?

Answer 1

I don't think we have a knowledge-based economy. Intelligence and learning are far behind looks and material wealth. An inquisitive mind may be tolerated, but it won't get rewarded as our culture stands now.
The only solution I found was to home-school my children.

Answer 2

I think you're confused about a few things.

First of all, the primary meaning of "wisdom" is 'knowledge of what is true coupled with just action'. In other words, wisdom is knowledge + judgment + values.

If the goal is to teach wisdom, then the curriculum has to include factual information, provide experience opportunities, and teach values. All three are important.

And yet, your question is about the "knowledge-based" economy, as if values and experience have a lesser role in society. Well, perhaps that is the case today, but that doesn't make it a good idea.

During my lifetime, the overt teaching of values has been entirely removed from the educational system. The removal of prayer and the attack on the Pledge of Allegiance is leaving a void in the educational system, and all that remains is knowledge for the sake of knowledge, and each child has to find meaning for it on their own. This void has been filled from two directions.

One is from the streets. The lack of a value system in the schools gives the hip-hop culture a monopoly on the value systems of students.

The other is the substitution of a covert value system for the overt, seen in the presumptions of the educational materials that "Global Warming" is a fact, and desperately attempting to program the students to blame America and Capitalism and rampant Consumerism and generally anything "American" for all of the evils in the world.

So, I'm really suspicious of what you actually have in mind. Would you possibly be wanting to remove the Socialistic programming from the shadows and make it the overt value system taught in our schools? I can see where we are almost ready for that, what with "Memorial Day" meaning "hot dogs, barbecue, and auto racing" first, before anything to do with fighting for the freedoms we still enjoy. I can see how our tolerance of confiscatory tax rates and vote-getting subsidies might suggest we are ready to stop calling ourselves the "land of the free." The recent attempt by our own government to surrender the sanctity of the borders that so many fought to protect certainly argues for our no longer being the "home of the brave." Is that what you are favoring, overtly teaching the new philosophy of "the big picture"?

As far as your digressing with the question about whether or not inquisitive minds are rewarded, it has nothing to do with our status as an "affluent" society. Inquisitive minds are very much discouraged in our POLITICAL society. Liberals particularly do not tolerate anyone that suggests that Social Security might be heading for disaster, or that Global Warming might be all hype, or that the Abortion issue might just be one for the States rather than the Fed, and there is no mercy for those that point out the truth about how Democrats voted on the decision to commence the current hostilities. No, inquisitive minds do not get rewarded in our political society. Creative minds do, those that invent fictions that advance the socialist agenda such as rewriting the history of socialist politicians on hot-button issues, or inventing wild theories to blame Conservatives for the crimes and mistakes of others, or even naturally occurring disasters.

So your question is about how we can effectively brainwash young kids to learn their proper place as an automaton in society, follow rules and recycle, drive less, give "excess" wealth to the poor, and give up the American Dream of being independent and self-sufficient.

People like you are frightening.

Answer 3

You cannot teach wisdom. Wisdom, by definition, comes with experience and prolonged intelligent learning. One can only equip the young with the ability and tools to acquire intelligence, and thereby accumulate wisdom in the long run.

Answer 4

You can't teach wisdom. Wisdom is learning by experience. People who are wise do not care about being rewarded. I agree with Calvin's statement.

Answer 5

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