Ontario’s education system is a world-class education system. Canadian students perform well on PISA – the Program for International Student Assessment – and there have been positive results over the past fifteen years in increasing elementary literacy and numeracy, improving graduation rates, and reducing the number of low-performing schools. But there’s a dark side to the system we don't recognize. Ontario’s education system also unwittingly contributes to gender and race discrimination.
Read MoreHow to Grow Up and Wake Up Between 20 and 60 Years Old
Studies show that we grow up psychologically quite naturally until about the age of twenty. Then, for reasons that are not terribly well understood, we simply stop growing. We remain at whatever psychological level of development we reached in our early twenties until the age of sixty or so, and then we start growing up again. Very few people actually grow up to the point of self-actualization. Currently only five percent of the world’s population is self-actualized or "fully" psychologically grown. There are things we can do between the ages of twenty and sixty to ensure we grow up psychologically fully. We need to do these things to become the very best version of ourselves we can be.
Read MoreThe Role of Spirituality in Public Education
I believe we have raised a generation of kids who appear to be morally and ethically deprived, but it's important to realize that we ourselves are the same. As adults, we are just as seduced by narcissism and materialism as our kids. We are information rich but ethically and morally poor. Biologist Edward O. Wilson says we are "drowning in information while starving for wisdom."
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