Why You're not Enlightened 2—Failures of Forced Schooling
Channel: Consciousness Research Centre
Date: 2023-11-21

See, all of us have been through school, right? Or you wouldn't have enough money to have a computer or smartphone or whatever you're watching this video on. You wouldn't be able to understand even a fraction of what we're saying here. Enlightenment wouldn't be on your plate. It wouldn't even be an option for you. So you have some education.

The problem is, that education is all wrong. 

Try to understand: Schooling is designed to make you unable to learn anything unless it’s presented by an authority. In other words, you can't learn independently; and you can't do anything independently. This is the result of school training.

I've always wondered, why do people go to yoga classes? Why do people go to meditation classes? Why do they practice in a group, when everybody is so unique and so individual that their needs are often completely different from others? Why do they still practice in a herd?
And it's because we've been trained from the very start:

What's the first thing you do when you go to school? You go into a class. It's even called a ‘classroom’. Your homeroom, right? And you're in a class: 8th grade, 9th grade, whatever. And the upperclassmen can bully the lower classmen without anything really happening to them: no discipline or anything. The administrators bully the teachers, the teachers bully the students, the older students bully the younger students.

And nobody learns anything—except what's on the state-determined, state-mandated curriculum. And what is that? You go in a class, you sit at a desk, you listen to what the teacher says, you read in the state-approved textbooks what you’re supposed to know, and then you feed it back on tests.

And if you do that well, you get a high grade. And that leads to a good job. You can be trusted—to be an idiot, to be a slave, to follow orders, to not have any individual will or spontaneous independent action. Not to follow your own curiosity, but to follow what you're told to do. And we've all had at least twelve years of this nonsense.