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"The purpose of every educational system is to prepare humans for life."

If only, if only. Very little schools teach us how to deal with the latent abilities of our mind.

The purpose of every educational system is to prepare humans for life.

That may be its stated purpose, but in practice, the results seem to be rather different.

Unless, of course, your definition of "prepared for life" is vastly different from mine.

"The purpose of every educational system is to prepare humans for life"

Required reading assignment: John Gatto's The 7-Lesson Schoolteacher

http://www.newciv.org/whole/schoolteacher.txt

Before we put meditation in schools we'd have to scrub it really really well from any traces of religion. We'll be able to do this in some years, with all the active research in meditation, but right now I don't think we can.