The Grass Doctor

Can we alter what we teach our young in order to save the world?

Because the Earth and it's inhabitants are dying don't you think a good step would be to alter the school curriculum to tech a few generations of children how to be more self sufficient and less reliant on outside sources. maybe we could teach medicine making, growing your own foods, building Earth friendly housing, solar and wind energy. Seems like everything we need we buy from Walmart and it falls aprt in no time at all. We buy medicines that do not work or are harmful to us. Why not make your own from the weeds growing in your back yard. Who said we all have to have perfectly manicured golf course looking lawns? The same companies that are selling us weed killers are selling us pills for our ills made from things out of the very plants (weeds) we are using their products to destroy. Let's change the curriculum. Maybe our children can save the planet if we do. And save themselves. Teach alchemy, teach coping skills, teach self sufficient housing and farming.

Public Comments

1. Or maybe we can teach children not to listen to the hysteria about the Earth dying...
2. Absolutely we can and should: parents who provide the most enduring modeling and instruction. Kids, I assert, should be fortified against the onslaught of increasingly negative cultural influences violent video games, nasty music lyrics by parental involvement and guidance. when teaching describe an epidemic deficiency in the moral development of American kids and outline seven virtues (Empathy, Conscience, Self-Control, Respect, Kindness, Tolerance and Fairness) to be engendered in children. but please try to always be pragmatic and optimistic.
3. Would certainly be worth a try. I don't know up to what extent we could teach them to take care of themselves, when it comes to medicines and products... but we can surely teach them how to take care of our planet. if you teach a child from young to recycle, use less water, etc... he will probably continue to do as an adult.
4. We can, but we so-called [adults] wont. Why? because most of us already are perverted with pride,gluttony and lust, further more causing hell to be raised really soon. I, myself can only hope by prayer and trust in a loving HigherPower, that the youth will overcome our fathers' inquities.
5. YES! That's a great idea! I love it, and I think if the right people are put in power, that could happen. There are already a handful of colleges that are teaching things just like that... unfortunately, the people who care about the environment (and thus the survival of the human race) are viewed as "dirty hippies..." And usually the people who end up in power care more about the survival of their own family and name rather than the survival of the rest of the human race.
6. Education of our children is definitely the way to 'save the planet', but we must teach CONSERVATION not PRESERVATION. Preservationists are the problem right now with their BS carbon taxes and other 'green' scams. Conservationists want to use the resources while replacing those that can be replaced and wisely using those which cannot. Going to a nanny state or one world government is a sure way to destroy the resources of this planet and to bring about the destruction of humanity.
7. I think, put to the test, our young people would manage without any change in curriculum. We are born with the instinct to be survivors. I think that the most important aspect of survival is the simple act of love. Because, if we spread true love and fellowship then and everyone would respond to it, and would help everyone else to survive and reap the knowledge of everyone else. Our lives are made up of a series of 'choices'. We do what we do because it our 'choice' to do it - no one Else's. We are survivors and will always be survivors !
8. I totally agree, if the schools won't do it , we can do it ourselve at home. Going back to nature and backing up on the "consumerism" that's destroying our country and the world to about 1900 or so , using modern methods of producing green power and vehickles and farming our own property would be a great start.This verse from the bible"The Lord is my shepard , I shall not want".The shall not want part means "stop trying to out do the jones."Use what you have, and make things last.
9. absolutely. too many people are ignoring the growing problems with the world. if they don't start worrying too, their grandchildren and children will pay the price of their ignorance. the world is like our house. who the freak would wanna live in a complete pigsty with horrible smells and fungus growing everywhere. i'm no tree-hugger or anything, but i think those smart ppl can shift their focus from inventing high tech cell phones and computers and mp3 players to helping to figure out how to save the world from chaos.