Showing posts with label change. Show all posts
Showing posts with label change. Show all posts
Friday, February 8, 2013
Sunday, October 21, 2012
Moment of Truth
This is your moment of truth.
In this moment, you know that great rewards are never attained without great risk. In this moment, you finally admit that you are capable of everything you've dreamt in the past. In this moment, your life has added meaning, and in this moment, you live like never before. This moment is yours forevermore.
Seize that moment; for when it is lost, it is near impossible to seize again.
This is only what I've heard, but I intend to never see for myself. The time to make history is never more fitting than now.
This moment of truth is yours.
Monday, January 4, 2010
Our Education Has Failed Us.
"Do good in school"
"Get good grades"
"Listen to your teachers"
"Read your books"
We have all been failed by our educational system. We have all been taught poison; intellectual poison that kills off innovation, poison that does away with originality and confuses conformity with ingenuity. As children, we possessed the skill of challenging all that was said to be true with questions and more often than not, rebellion. To challenge what you were taught was not tolerated and to ensure you never challenge authority or ideology again, you were punished.. Punished for thinking on your own and punished for having the audacity to criticize what you were being taught.
Our education has crippled our youth and maimed the legs of which our generation is to stand. We are taught to do well on standardized tests by regurgitating what we've memorized instead of expanding on material we've genuinely analyzed. We've been taught to believe that in order to succeed, we must often adhere to failed policies. The nature of our society is being hijacked by ideological tyrants who can't stand the idea of different world views and perspectives. Liberalism and Conservatism have condemned outside thinkers. Under the guise of "open-mindedness", the brains of these very liberals fall out their heads. On the other side of the same token, traditional conservatives cling to their obsolete and outdated ideas. These two, when placed within the education system, force us; students present and students past, to pick our poison.
In our education system, we are too concerned with our intellectual, social and political games of tug of war, we forget the very reasons for education's existence.
Our professors have meant well. Our teachers have taught. Our instructors have instructed. Yet somewhere between the formulation of educational curriculum and its very implementation, our nation has lost sight of what really matters: innovation. We've forgotten the fundamentals of an everchanging nation amongst a world of everchanging circumstances. We have fallen from our pedestal and in our attempts to climb our way back, we have confused ourselves into believing intellectual conformity with being synonymous to educational ingenuity.
Our educational system has failed us. It's become reliant on statistical rates and percentages. It's commercialized all that is involved and learned in education and hampered our minds with mere promises of 'financial success' and yet the most academically "educated" men and women in the country are often the very same perpetrators of ill-conceived and counter-effective financial, social and political disasters!
The "educated" in Wall Street have shamelessly run our economy to shambles.
The "educated" in our medical companies do away with medical innovation in exchange for profitability.
The "educated" in Capitol Hill have had their loyalties purchased away in the interests of being reelected.
The "educated" in healthcare companies insure that they make the most profit providing the least amount of healthcare.
When we say "We're all dealt a different set of cards", we forget to ask.. "Who's the dealer?"
Mere ideas give birth to change. Change is not something found on slogans. Change is not found in our pockets.
To change, we must adapt. To Adapt is to Sustain.
- David Javier Solis
"An educational system isn't worth a great deal if it teaches young people how to make a living but doesn't teach them how to make a life."
"Get good grades"
"Listen to your teachers"
"Read your books"
We have all been failed by our educational system. We have all been taught poison; intellectual poison that kills off innovation, poison that does away with originality and confuses conformity with ingenuity. As children, we possessed the skill of challenging all that was said to be true with questions and more often than not, rebellion. To challenge what you were taught was not tolerated and to ensure you never challenge authority or ideology again, you were punished.. Punished for thinking on your own and punished for having the audacity to criticize what you were being taught.
Our education has crippled our youth and maimed the legs of which our generation is to stand. We are taught to do well on standardized tests by regurgitating what we've memorized instead of expanding on material we've genuinely analyzed. We've been taught to believe that in order to succeed, we must often adhere to failed policies. The nature of our society is being hijacked by ideological tyrants who can't stand the idea of different world views and perspectives. Liberalism and Conservatism have condemned outside thinkers. Under the guise of "open-mindedness", the brains of these very liberals fall out their heads. On the other side of the same token, traditional conservatives cling to their obsolete and outdated ideas. These two, when placed within the education system, force us; students present and students past, to pick our poison.
In our education system, we are too concerned with our intellectual, social and political games of tug of war, we forget the very reasons for education's existence.
Our professors have meant well. Our teachers have taught. Our instructors have instructed. Yet somewhere between the formulation of educational curriculum and its very implementation, our nation has lost sight of what really matters: innovation. We've forgotten the fundamentals of an everchanging nation amongst a world of everchanging circumstances. We have fallen from our pedestal and in our attempts to climb our way back, we have confused ourselves into believing intellectual conformity with being synonymous to educational ingenuity.
Our educational system has failed us. It's become reliant on statistical rates and percentages. It's commercialized all that is involved and learned in education and hampered our minds with mere promises of 'financial success' and yet the most academically "educated" men and women in the country are often the very same perpetrators of ill-conceived and counter-effective financial, social and political disasters!
The "educated" in Wall Street have shamelessly run our economy to shambles.
The "educated" in our medical companies do away with medical innovation in exchange for profitability.
The "educated" in Capitol Hill have had their loyalties purchased away in the interests of being reelected.
The "educated" in healthcare companies insure that they make the most profit providing the least amount of healthcare.
When we say "We're all dealt a different set of cards", we forget to ask.. "Who's the dealer?"
Mere ideas give birth to change. Change is not something found on slogans. Change is not found in our pockets.
To change, we must adapt. To Adapt is to Sustain.
- David Javier Solis
"An educational system isn't worth a great deal if it teaches young people how to make a living but doesn't teach them how to make a life."
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
Is this Change?
Here we are, nearly 6 months into President Obama's presidency and while I told myself I would give our new president a few months to show what he can do, I am truthfully dissatisfied and upset with the policies he's chosen to undertake as a president who won on the premise of 'change'. I ask this: what change have we seen to our country since January 20th, 2009? In regard to the budget, it's become a matter of disregard to the administration. There are no plans to balance the budget and little to no indications that this is even a goal of Obama's cabinet. The administration and their economic 'experts' promised unemployment would not reach 10%; promise broken. They promised more regard towards prisoners of war and due process rights; promise broken. They promised a revival in the economy; promise broken. While Obama's predecessor is responsible for much of the condition of the country, we cannot allow ourselves to avoid pointing a finger at Obama's administration and keeping them unaccountable for their campaign promises. This is Obama's presidency and instead of having an administration which works for the American people, we've seen the ultra-wealthy and influential lobby groups take over. During his campaign, Obama demonizd these very people; now it seems they're in bed with them. Working in cahoots, can we confide in a president who takes our tax money towards companies "too big to fail"? Aren't we all too big to fail? Nevertheless, we have seen change in 6 months. We've seen the economy worsen; even AFTER the bailouts, the "stimulus package" and numerous other policies this adminstration promised would revive and give the economy a jolt. Instead of saving jobs, we've seen our country post historic unemployment numbers. Many of these many workers confided in Obama's promise that their jobs are in better hands under his administration and its policies. Now the administration openly admits there will be new, expensive taxes placed upon businesses; not including the new "health care reform" that the administration is coming up with. Makes me wonder.. When the economy is in bad shape, why spend money we don't have? Why bailout the banks who helped create this crisis in the first place? Why tread on the downtrodden?
THOUGHTS PLEASE, FOLKS.
- David Solis
THOUGHTS PLEASE, FOLKS.
- David Solis
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