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We have an education system that does not cultivate children's passions and talents, but is based on the accumulation of useless knowledge, on contests and competitions. This is the conclusion I reached after a very interesting discussion with\u00a0Prof. Florin Colceag<\/strong>, a great genius of Romania, professor of mathematics and\u00a0\"trainer of geniuses\"<\/b><\/em>, in his turn. His view of what is happening in Romania and in the world today is thought-provoking and makes us want change as soon as possible. He believes that the Romanian nation is at the bottom of the pit and if it sinks a millimeter lower it could disappear. But everything can be turned around through education. What is needed is a reform that requires no effort and no budget, just good will. And the first thing we all need to do is to think about and try to understand who we are, where we come from, where we are going and what our job is on this earth.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Prof. Florin Colceag:<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0We have in this time period and in the previous time period the same problem: a very poor understanding of humanity's role on earth. We don't know what we're doing on earth, and for the moment we're acting as if the earth is a consumable. We are not interested in maintaining it. This means that at the moment humanity is in a permanent identity crisis in the first place, not only about the way we act on Earth, and this spills over into education. We are not educating ourselves to understand our role. In the last centuries we have learned to be competitive and to fight with each other to have more, better, but we have not developed our personality side. We have learned to learn, but not to have more soul, more love, more understanding. Because we have made confusions and we are still making the same confusions with increasing risks.\u00a0The big confusion is that we thought that who is higher is stronger and if he is stronger he is smarter.<\/strong>\u00a0And if he's smart, that means he's handsome. That's incomplete thinking, incomplete induction that leads nowhere. It can be corrected through education if first of all we know who we are and what our purpose on earth is.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n How do we recognize gifted children?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n The thing about gifted children is this: they have an inkling of who they are. From the very beginning they have some abilities that manifest themselves, they have a purpose in life and they work to achieve that purpose because they know it's not accidental. That's the main difference between gifted children and other children. The gifted ones know their role and their place and they know they have something to do and they realize they have something to face.<\/span><\/p>\n Without being stimulated, without being coordinated in any way? Is there native?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Without being. They have desire, they have purpose. When they find a little stimulation, they flourish.<\/span><\/p>\n Gifted children know their role, but they need some guidance. Do you have any idea, percentage-wise, how many of the children are gifted because they have been identified and supported?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n All children are gifted at birth. It's a fact, their ability to recognize their environment is absolutely fabulous. But just to be clear, when a child is born, it's born with its lesson learned. From the womb, it learns. The contact it has with its mother's mind means that when it's born it has a picture of the world. Quite a broad picture. I have two extremely interesting cases. Two children who from birth spoke only English. At home they all spoke Romanian. Because one of the mothers translated into English during pregnancy and the other one listened only to English songs. And the mother's experience was imprinted in the child's mind. And when he comes out, he comes out with the lesson learned.<\/span><\/p>\n But not all moms are the same...<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Sure. But they start life with a baggage of emotional experiences and knowledge. They begin to recognize the world they have come into, taking into account what they inherited from their mother's womb. If a mother is stressed during pregnancy, the baby learns stress. If she is fearful during pregnancy, the child learns fear. It learns what the mother experiences. And she's still doing that. Mothers are totally responsible.<\/span><\/p>\n Do you have a tangible explanation?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n The tangible explanation is very simple. In children and mothers, the so-called\u00a0veromo-nasal organ<\/b><\/em>\u00a0that sense pheromones. There are pheromones that they perceive from the outside and there are pheromones inside the maternal body. There's a chemical language between the baby and the mother using these pheromones. Then they disappear, they are only active during the breeding period and during pregnancy.<\/span><\/p>\n The truth is that we could have a society of whole people if we had a generation of mothers who want to be real mothers and cultivate their qualities as mothers and also understand what is happening to them and to their child so that they can support them. The reality is that mothers are still in the Neolithic.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n How in the Neolithic?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Mothers are in the Neolithic because they have taken on the experience of their mothers, which they took on from the age of 0-2 years when they were not yet judging logically. And everything they picked up from their mothers has stayed in their memory. Not much has changed from the Neolithic to now. We have Neolithic mothers with children in the computer age, and we end up with parents who don't know what to do with their children, and children who go to phones and tablets and choose artificial parents who don't scold them.<\/span><\/p>\n Here we have a very big historical rupture. We have a lot of developed science, a lot of technology, but man has not yet developed.<\/span><\/p>\n From the Neolithic to the present day, man still doesn't know his role, still doesn't know what he's doing on this earth and is destroying it. This is the big problem.<\/span><\/p>\n \"We do not yet have an education of ideals. We have not cultivated in our children broad horizons. We teach them knowledge instead of wisdom\"<\/span><\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n How do you see the change?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n It cannot be done very easily unless we have a fusion between humanity, technology and nature. We currently have an ecological disaster. Every 20 minutes a species dies. Three species die on this earth every hour because of pollution. Pollution comes from what? Education. What do you mean? Greed. We think having more stuff makes us happy, but we don't learn to be happy. We don't learn to be happy, to see the beautiful. We learn to be critical, to see only the things that are dirty, miserable, and we cultivate them. We only know how to point out things that are traumatizing. So the child grows up in trauma and fear. It has moved away from nature, it lives in a totally artificial world that is subject to stress.<\/span><\/p>\n What can be done concretely for our children in the current system - which cannot be changed with a magic wand?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n The current system can be changed with a magic wand! Globally, it changes with a magic wand and with extraordinary speed. Look what has happened in the last 20-30 years. 401TPTP3T of the old professions have disappeared and new 401TPTP3T professions have emerged. The process will accelerate because of technology. This dynamic shows that what happens, happens with a magic wand, extremely fast.<\/span><\/p>\n What can be done? First of all we need to teach children who they are, where they come from, where they are going and what their role is. Let's also teach the adults.<\/span><\/p>\n You mean giving children a long-term role, not simple tasks?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Yes, sure. We do not yet have an education of ideals. We have not cultivated in our children broad horizons. We teach them knowledge instead of wisdom. Wisdom comes from analyzing knowledge, if you can figure out what's behind the evidence. But neither parents know, nor teachers know.<\/span><\/p>\n In the traditional Romanian system, if you don't pass the subject, you don't pass the class. There's so much material that has to be covered, without which you don't get a good grade, without which you're put in the corner. What to do?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n It's true. The magic wand works. How does it work? Now the market doesn't give a shit about diplomas. The notion of a degree has been devalued because degrees have been sold. Now, let's look at what can be done. But to see what can be done, we have to look at where we are. At the moment, anyone who had any idea who they are, what their job is and where they are going, doesn't know. Banks no longer support the economy. That was their original purpose. Now they're just doing the scrounging. Health no longer prevents disease, it sells drugs. Education no longer forms personalities, it sells diplomas, it forms CVs. Everywhere you go and everywhere you look, everyone has lost their horizon. It's total chaos. You can't find institutions, people who know. This\u00a0\"to know\"\u00a0<\/em>becomes important. Who are you, what's your business, what's your job? That's what the kid wants to know from the start. What good is he? People have learned to think in terms\u00a0\"what would you like most. What would you like to do in life?\"<\/em>.\u00a0\"Well, I'd like to be a guest\"<\/em>. That's a job too. But they never ask where you could be of more use, with what you can, with what you know. The school doesn't teach them where they can be of more use because it doesn't emphasize their qualities. To discover their qualities and capitalize on them in the community. This automation with grades, with school curricula, doesn't put them in a position to show their qualities.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n How does a parent or teacher discover a child's qualities?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n At a young age it's easy because they know it and they manifest it. The child says, you just have to listen. The toddler plays with certain toys, not with others, and he says what he wants to do in life, where he is going, what he is interested in. What is normal is to help the child to do where he can do better, not where he cannot.<\/span><\/p>\n The education system is a\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>template<\/span><\/b><\/em>\u00a0with a lot of baggage...<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n With a lot of unnecessary and vicious baggage. More and more I come across the case of the ambitious child who wants to get only 10 because otherwise he is not praised by his mother and not praised by his teachers and he needs confirmation that he is actually valuable and capable.<\/span><\/p>\n What do we do with this child?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n That child works very hard and is under total stress. If he gets a \"B,\" it's a bummer. He drops off the podium and he's nobody. During that time his qualities disappear because they're not being used. This kid has to make sense. If he knows who he is, what his job is, he automatically has a passion, and school develops by cultivating passions. Personality develops by cultivating passions! Changing the education system in this direction is very simple because it's almost effortless and budget-free. All you have to do is to stop tormenting teachers to go against nature. Teachers should be about developing personalities, not writing tons of papers to pass on as reports. The teacher has a soul that is tormented, stressed, but if it is nurtured by seeing the joy in the eyes of the children, it loses the negative states. It's liberating. Now there's a system of fear and corruption at work: fear of the grade, fear of failing, fear of everything.<\/span><\/p>\n But why do you think it's not happening?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n We've gone on to imitate a system that was generated by George Bush Senior that was called\u00a0\"No child left behind\"<\/em>\u00a0and that was based on credits, competitions and entry to the next stage, if the child covered their credits and grades. I have seen in the United States the results: they were disastrous. I met a very bright boy with a passion for math. When I asked him if he would like me to give him an interesting geometry problem, he replied:\u00a0\"No, because I have so much homework that I don't have time to do anything else. And if I don't do my homework, I don't get a good grade and I don't get a scholarship. And my parents are poor.\"<\/em>. In our country, they introduced this program without scholarships. And so it killed the passions, it killed the joy of discovery, it completely killed the revelation of astonishment, of living, of the joy of doing something. And then of course we have a disaster in education. They have imitated without thinking, without knowing, and a system based on command and control has been imposed. This is not militancy. Children live under so much stress that many of them are on the edge.<\/span><\/p>\n In 20 years' time we expect other jobs to disappear, other professions to appear, we will no longer go to the doctor but to the computer and children will have robots to do their homework.<\/span><\/p>\n In 20 years' time we will probably end up in this situation: the food crisis will be, let's say, overcome by in vitro cultures of cells that will produce food and that will come out with 3D printers to the standards of tasty, nutritious food. Experiments are already being done in Japan. Maybe we will have energy, maybe we will no longer be interested in wages because money has become a vicious, toxic thing globally and you have to detach yourself from it; maybe there will be sustainable homes. But what are we going to do with our free time? What are we going to do with our lives? We are back to the starting point of the discussion:\u00a0who are we, where do we come from, where are we going, what is our job?<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n Maybe we'll manage to survive not 7.5 billion as we are now, but 100 or 1000 billion standing upright, because we'll have nowhere to sit. We'll survive physically, but what about our time?<\/span><\/p>\n Here is the big change that needs to be made in education. It's not only how much we know that matters, in 10 years nano-technologies will be on the market and you won't need to learn anything. But that doesn't mean you will be more human. We don't learn to be human, we don't learn love, generosity, wisdom, cooperation etc.<\/span><\/p>\n Can they be taught at school?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Somewhere they have to be learned. Somewhere they must be the horizon towards which we must move, because we have fallen behind, we are neolithic. We are primitives in a world with technology and science far too advanced for us to understand, but we no longer have the primitive instincts to live in nature. Our nature now is online and the real one we are destroying, we have artificialized ourselves, and future generations will be even more artificial if we don't take notice.<\/span><\/p>\n Do you believe in home schooling?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Of course it is. It's one of the forms. Depends who you do it with, how well you do it. And the parent has to learn. Children who come from the home schooling system are beautiful children, who have overcome their crises, they are personalities. Up until now we have had a system that has been a system that has been a potential.<\/span><\/p>\n And they execute them at Baccalaureat...<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Romania still has the Baccalaureat. A few countries in the world still have the Baccalaureat: France, Germany, Bosnia. In the other countries, an international baccalaureate has been introduced, which is not a final exam, it's an exam that is a step-by-step process. Exams exist, but in a relaxed environment. Things can be done here, it's not difficult. It really isn't hard. All you need is good will, but good will is currently held back by fear. People are afraid, teachers are afraid of reforms. All reforms so far have been destructive and not real. And what the Ministry of Education has been working on over time has been downright vicious. Last year there was still a Romanian textbook on the market with a few dozen commercial advertisements. When the high school exam was made conditional on middle school grades, it opened wide the corruption, especially on the lack of money of teachers.<\/span><\/p>\n It's easy to give up bad habits, and those who don't, have no place to go. If they put in good pay based on student progress, not performance, and restart circles with students where they can find their passions, then things will turn around.<\/span><\/p>\n Is there room for geniuses in Romania?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Yes, especially in Romania, because here you have to start from 0. Actually from minus. We've reached the bottom of the pit, there's nowhere to fall further without disappearing. And now reality is dawning on the minds of the Romanians. This is how initiatives emerge to put things right, hard and late, but it happens. With a little luck and a lot of hard work, we can recover. And we can start from education because the bad education in the old system has led to the current corruption.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n