education

Institutions of education should be supplementary, not primary channels of knowledge. They should be premised on the foundation of actorship and the performing arts. What is more important than grasping social relationships, developing empathy?

With new media, people will seek out knowledge on their own. The key is such is becoming more entertaining. More contingent on perceptional empathy than evidential abstraction. More visual. First, however, we must as a culture collectively recognize and delineate popular cinema, music and visual media as very credible channels of education and understanding.

Further elaborating in regard to perceptional empathy, our education systems must focus on contextualizing -- on the experiences and circumstances of all the great voices we celebrate. We cannot merely focus on the results, or the unilluminating facts. To teach such so detachedly debases the potential inspiration and knowledge gained when learning about such strong souls.

We must learn people.