Elementary Education

Our (American) education model was/is designed with the purpose of turning the individual into a cog in the machine of industry/production to create things for our merchant society to trade.  

The question then becomes:

What exactly are we selling, and does our product work to enhance relationship between humans?  We are producing and selling to humans, so what we produce must positively influence society and relationships between humans, right?  However, if we are unsure what a human-being is, we have no basis upon which to measure our success as a merchant class of people.  

Elementary Education, in the true sense of the term, is the study of what it means to be a human-being (did you ever get that education?) -- which is the study of the inherent relationship/appetite phenomena.  

It is the fundamental case, that we are driven (naturally) and directed (via appetite) to be in a set of relationships (to both beings and things), the likes of which we have no capacity to explain with any certainty or completeness.  Modern society is the outcome when we ignore the fact that relationship is taking place of-itself.  

If we ignore the fact of relationship, then creating a story about who I am and why I am here becomes very important (hence Facebook lol).  However, if we have even a small amount of Elementary Education, then this anxious and hysterical drive to create a story of meaning/value relaxes.  Then there is no need to pacify and dull our senses with endless entertainments and empty food so that we needn't pay attention to the situation we find ourselves.  Then there is no reason to prove to ourselves that we (as a class of merchants) are producing valuable goods and services with meaning and purpose to justify our existence... btw, why do we need to justify our existence?  To whom are we justifying?  Who are we serving exactly?  

Without this basic elementary look at what it means to be human, then it is easy for another being, with ambition and focused desire, to convince us we should work for them and their ideas (modern/industrial society).  Without basic human education - ambition, violence, power, control, greed all look sensible - but all lack a basic understanding of the human condition.  This understanding (which is not an idea, rather an experience) is the meaning of the word wisdom.  Wisdom is the basic Elementary Education we were trained away from by those who had something to sell us.  

As it is, wisdom would undermine our entire modern life, as we are accustomed to it - and so it takes a lot of work/effort/struggle to keep ourselves from looking at our fundamental nature in order to keep up the status quo of modern human relationship based on an industrious/mechanical model of humanity in a society which requires the belief that the buying and selling of things/ideas has meaning/value.