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The Paradigm of an Empty Promise

By Joseph Lento

When the human psyche is explored we discover some basic inherent traits each of us shares with the overriding themes of survival and improvement. Survival encompasses good nutrition, healthy habits and a safe physical environment. Improvement in oneself comes in the form of improving the mind, body or both in the pursuit of a good income from which we can enhance our overall life experiences. To meet these needs we decided that providing a broad public education to people would give everyone the opportunity to make a life in which we could nourish our survival and improvement traits. It sounds like a great idea, right? Well, it is, except that the paradigm created for such a grand, noble, majestic and highly important endeavor isn’t grand, noble or majestic and is certainly treated as if it were anything but highly important. The paradigm of an empty promise to provide the educational setting in which these two inherent traits has proven to be an empty one.

In those shared inherent traits of learning survival and improvement, people want and need Teachers whom they can respect. When people do not respect Teachers they recoil and seek their needs elsewhere. This is the result of society ironically disrespecting the very people who are highly trained to provide the skills and…