Envision a school where all students always put their best foot forward; envision a school where there is always peace among peers. All the teachers always smile and spend all their time uplifting the most underdeveloped students. And every student is always excited about life. Now imagine that the aforementioned school only exists in the clouds. Because chances are if you somehow happen to know such a school then it’s quite possible the students are routinely drugged, brainwashed or frequently threatened with a butt-whopping.
School does not determine your future
Even today many people believe that school determines how well rounded, diligent and intellectual a student becomes; all of the latter are arguably ingredients for success. Yet, it’s been proven time after time again that many people who did not even complete high school; and such persons continued on with their lives to become more successful than even the best university graduates.
Notice I didn’t mention anything about Bill Gates or James Cameron anywhere in my last sentence? That’s because being successful in life without attending a particular school can become more of a norm than an exception. But to achieve this one must first let go of particular mind-set; attending a prestigious school does not define the rest of your life. Discipline alone can get you much further.
The power of discipline
The truth is that for any student to obtain true discipline, that discipline should not always be made mandatory; worst case scenario: discipline for the most should be passively encouraged. Don’t force someone to accept a way of life simply because “there are rules and you need to follow them”; instead, give a valid explanation as to why following a particular rule would make them a better person. Failure to properly explain the validity of rules often results in the person turning turning out to be “artificially disciplined.” This increases the possibility that they may rebel at the very first instance there are no rules are set before them.
It’s almost like that son or daughter who some parents bombard every day of the week with, “Sit up straight! Don’t eat with your mouth open! No talking at the dinner table!” You can bet your bottom dollar one one thing. The first chance an over-disciplined child gets you may find them somewhere trying to so something very mischievous with a pitchfork.
Might this be the same sort of “discipline” that some entrusted leaders in society possess? The type where they spend so long falsely trying to suppress their instinctual desires? And the first chance they get they go sexually molest some little boy? I think not! Because when someone is naturally disciplined nothing would be able to consistently probe at their minds and ultimately cause them to remain in a moral rut.
School does not guarantee discipline
But if the rules of any school does not necessarily determine the overall discipline of a student, then what does? What exactly makes the most significant difference between artificial and natural discipline? It’s as simple as not having someone learn discipline for the sole purpose of adhering to societal norms and expectations.
There must be room for the individual to genuinely learn ethics and compassion to the point it becomes their foundation; this way they become mentally balanced for the greater good of having a persistent desire to service themselves and others. It is something that most schools, as an agent of socialization, cannot provide students with. Because this is a job that can most easily be accomplished at the school called, “Home.”
When School becomes too cloudy
There’s a school that’s better than the one at home or the ones that equip students for life. This school contains no rules and regulations, yet it instinctively informs each and every one of us of the difference. That difference is doing what’s right wrong and caring for the well-being of others.
But the aforesaid school has no name, nor does it exist in the heavens; it exists merely as a clear cloud spiraling in our heads. This cloud only turns grey when too many rules, laws and regulations subliminally try to manifest themselves in our brains as pure subjugation. Resistance will always do battle with subjugation. Because no disciplinary act can permanently suppress the human mind from desiring to be distinctive and free.
Retrain your brain
There isn’t a school on this earth than can train minds to always err on the side of morality; every student must gradually learn morality for themselves in order for it to become true. The disciplines taught in school can only be used as an aid to bring forth this reality. Because if true morality always comes down to what’s right and wrong, then outside the grounds of schools, clearly the imperfections of many “disciplined” students eventually materialize in the real world.
They materialize as rape, robbery, assault, bad manners, and the list can go on. You decide. Is true discipline really just about being taught to do what’s right and wrong? Or have you just been taught that it’s wrong to think that what you may see fit to do might actually be right?
