American Educational Awareness Issues

Welcome reader,

Many things have gone wrong in America and to be completely honest about the situation is my only route to take. To begin with, my parents were not the most educated people to ever cross paths in my life, which does not say a lot.

I never had the motivation, in my early years, to go to college or seek a higher level of education, simply because I believed it did not make a difference. As I grew up I learned the best that I could from school. I continued to be one of the brightest kids in my class and it really did not matter the subject.

This hub you're reading isn't so much about YOU obtaining a higher level of education, but is to make sure that you gain awareness that your education does not stop when you leave school. Some people believe that what you learn from school is your complete education and what you retain is the knowledge.

In the most average community, awareness of knowledge(all things learned) is what matters most. How you put that knowledge to work is vital with regards to supportive measure of your surrounding community.

Your neighbor might not be the brightest light bulb or the sharpest tool in the shed, but they are just as important to the vitalization of your community. When I speak of community awareness, I would rather have you thinking about specifically that- "Community" and "Awareness".

You should want to be a part of your community. The surroundings of where you live are just as important, as what you do in your own life. You may disagree with that and I'm fine with you disagreeing with me. However, I would like to point out that should you determine that your life is more important than that of your neighbor, then realize you are one selfish individual part of your surroundings and you only bring forth what happens to you.

You should have an awareness level that shows you the community's educational level and the people who make it up. It can be done by sitting in a park and soaking up the sunlight, but while you do that, you should be just watching the actions of those in your community. It will show you specifically their educational stance/position.

I've written another article about "people watching" and the fact that I am a People Watcher. In that article I ask "Do you see like a People Watcher?" and to my surprise, many people left comments to let me know that they indeed are watching people around them.

You must be aware of those people are around, because should you not be, then your life can have some really bad results, even if you did not intend them to happen to you. Your inaction in your community's level of education can play a major role in how easily your life moves forward and the difficulty level of the problems.

Your level of education awareness is more in tune with how you pay attention to other people and discern their actions. When you look at a person who walks from their house to the sidewalk to get a paper that was left for them....what do you learn about them? Providing you are looking out your window.

You can look at their clothing, see how they came outside. Their clothing or how they are dressed tells a lot about a person...for an example: A person comes outside of their house in a robe(open), wearing a t-shirt and boxer shorts, and slippers, then you can assess that this person has little to no self-respect for themselves, much less for other people. If he is unshaven or seems half asleep, then you know that he is having troubles and cannot get his act together.

This makes for a somewhat poor education level and he himself is not aware he has a problem. However, you cannot limit his problems to solely him. He might not be aware, like yourself, that many problems people incur in their life, happens because of their parents and the teachings embedded in your early stages of life.

Yes, the title of this section can or possibly, piss you off. However, I am not here to make you my friend, but to teach you about education awareness, community awareness and before you can begin to fathom that, you must be made to understand that many of your actions, even as an adult, derives or comes from what happened as a child-teenager or young adult.

You could sit there reading this and probably dismiss what has been said, for which, I'm pretty sure people will do, simply because they think that they do not need to learn anything at all. They have learned enough and just want to live their life, their own way and just go about their business.

Well, to be completely forthwith and honest- if that IS you, then you are truly sad as a person and demonstrates that your parents showed you how to have no morals and taught you how not to be honest with yourself. If you have not been an active part in your community's education level, then you have no clue how to help people and if you have no clue how to help people, then your ego will show other people that you simply do not care about anyone but yourself.

Again, your actions stem from what you learned, either in school or by parents. You cannot change what happened, so live with it. However, you can change who you are right now, if the thoughts running through your head are not in agreement with the words I speak here.

Yes, it is difficult to accept what has happened in your past and most of the time, people bring forth the ignorance factor, which is derived from selectively learning about what they want to learn, instead of looking for the greater good option- education awareness and community awareness.

Some parents teach their children about having a belief in a god and some let their children make that decision on their own. I know this from personal experience and from watching other parents with their children. My sister and her husband, both are not part of the education awareness system nor do they bother with community awareness either. Thus, they are both selfish and extremely self-centered.

Being selfish and self-centered is a detriment to the level of education awareness of not only themselves but to that of those around them as well. But, the problem with those two as an example is that they have two children and since they each came from a completely ignorant upbringing, with limited understanding of morals and education, they both could not come to some agreement on whether or not their own children would be part of some religious order.

I kid you not, my sister was born and raise, like myself, in a Catholic(non-traditional) household and her husband was also born and raise in a Jewish/Born-again Christian household. So, you can see the problems that can arise from just that alone.

Neither of them were active within the community or very good with education. My sister barely graduated high school and had no form of inspiration to go to college. Her husband, followed his father's foot-steps and went into the Military at an early age. His level of education awareness grew while in the service, but so did his community awareness also. Unfortunately, when he left the service, he did not use it to help others, but only to help himself.

The people who surround your life, as well as, those who surround my life, are extremely important to our failures and successes, which coincides with a saying I came up with as I was growing up- Life Is Easy, People Make It Complicated.

To be serious, if I haven't already...that statement has more wisdom in it than anything ever said, simply because living life isn't the hard part, but dealing with people IS the more difficult aspect of living. It is the people who you allow into your life that make your life more difficult, especially if they too are lacking education awareness and/or community awareness. They will bring you more harm than good.

So, that leaves us with how to deal with the problem or finding a solution to fix current problems. The many current problems stem from many places- (a) you and your willingness to do something about it, (b) other people willingness to be aware of the problem, (c) political intervention(the selfishness, greed, corruption that comes with it) and (d) big business lack of doing good in the community.

Now that we have recognized the problems causing the majority of the problems, we can now address the problems. First I must begin with you, which is one of the reasons you are here reading. You were looking or searching something on the Internet with regards to education or community. I used targeted keywords, so as to show this article of Education Awareness, whenever "Education" was searched for.

It is completely up to you, what you do with the information. Now, I really haven't given you anything that is physically useful, but is emotionally and mentallyuseful. Your individual awareness that you do not know everything you need to know is highly important, so as to allow you the power to change your life.

Thus, improve your situation/circumstances you are presently in. Should you be unwilling to go out into your community and learn more about it, then you will have taken nothing away and your individual level of awareness will remain in place.

The Education Awareness solution is fairly simple. Do not stop learning and actively spread what you have learned on to other people, whenever possible. If you have children, then please make sure that they keep an open mind and focus on bettering them, because their growth pays off for everyone in the long run, not just for them.

If you have no children, then become active in your community and show the people who live around you that you are willing to help them improve their life. In return, you will gain a huge amount of respect and love from the children and the parents of those children. You will make yourself feel so much better too, because as you see the growth of the children and the family support offered by the parents, then you can truly feel that you are making a difference.

Some people claim that one person cannot make a difference and I beg to differ, simply because I am doing precisely that in every article I bring forth for people to read. The impact of my actions, like that of yourself, can be judged and merited as something of value and importance. You cannot say no and be right, just to let you know. By your actions, you bring forth a change in other people, and allow them to gradually become willing to do the same as you do.

The Community Awareness solution becomes an automatic gradual action of the people within your surrounding community. Thus, your individual actions will have raised the community's level of awareness of what is important. Again, you cannot say no and be right. Because, by you making a difference in just one person's life, you automatically increase community awareness and education awareness.

As for addressing the hardest part of the entire equation- (a) political intervention and (b) big business, is something that you and your neighbors will have to do together. You cannot bring change to those without actively working side-by-side to make a difference. How you go about it? Well, that is for you and them to figure out, but begins with your individual community.

I can only hope you truly grasp the greater good of what we have discussed here and with a bit of luck, you will be able to integrate what you learned from me, so as to build a more happier life, surroundings and overall community support system that other people can rely on.

Thank you for your time.

Raymond Choiniere II - Cagsil Services Founder