This newsletter is the second in a series of newsletters being written and published by the Gentle Wind School. We are a group of researchers who inadvertently discovered that the most serious forms of irreparable, psychological harm that have been done to people in American society were done to them in schools. These newsletters contain a few simple statements about what we have discovered and what we, as researchers, understand to be true with regard to the current educational system. These newsletters have been written in natural sequential order. This means that the information contained here in Volume 1, Number 2 logically follows the information contained in Volume 1, Number 1.
Educators refuse to give information in a logical, natural order.
Children are forced, under conditions of psychological duress, to memorize huge quantities of unrelated facts which have no basis in everyday reality. School subjects are contrived by removing certain information from its natural context and presenting it to children as fragmented data bits floating in space. In this system, education disconnects children from what can best be described as natural, logical occurrence. Natural, logical occurrence refers to the fact that life exists on a natural continuum where one event, idea, or situation logically follows and is connected to the preceding event. Everything is connected to everything else.