Education is often said to be a “necessary evil.”  But really necessary?  According to the United States Government, “Five out of every 100 young adults enrolled in high school in October 1999 left school before October 2000 without successfully completing a high school program.”  (http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2002/droppub_2001/)  Are these five percent stupid, or could something else be happening?  What about the “Approximately 1.1 million students (1,096,000) were being homeschooled in the United States in the spring of 2003, an increase from the estimated 850,000 students who were being homeschooled in the spring of 1999” according to (http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2006/homeschool/estimated.asp)  Are homeschoolers unprepared for life?  The author, programmer and former homeschooler (and present day self-directed study student) says traditional schooling is harmful to not just the students’ future, but to society as a whole.  Why?  Because we, as humans, he argues, have the necessary technology to make education more portable, affordable, easy and efficient than ever-before in human history, due to the advent of the computer, the Internet, and utilization of certain Yoga exercises that can increase learning speeds two to ten times with little or no real effort or stress.   Further, traditional, mass education is obsolete training for jobs that will probably not be around a decade longer, perhaps to be useless training in mere years.  I am Eric Meyer, and I have chosen to spend my life exposing the fraudulent benefits of traditional education, to help usher in a new method of learning, one where skills that help students and communities have stability and peace, and to help phase out those educational dogmas that promote individualism, intolerance, violence, and anti-intellectualism.  Education needs to stop being controlled by big corporations that benefit from consumerism, greed, and fashion, which today embrace purchasing impulsively and consuming goods which serve little or no value, at the expense of the quality of life for humans elsewhere on the planet, ranging from third world nations to our own neighborhoods.  Education needs to stop focusing on “promote good citizenship, patriotism, and loyalty to the state”, a infamous paraphrase with near perfect reciting of a California Supreme Court Justice, back in the late 1960s, and again in early 2008.   Education needs to be portable, affordable, easy and efficient, to help empower its partakers to deal with future crisis, and communicate and care for one another.  Learning -- education -- needs to shift from teaching conformity, obedience, aggression, individualism, and following directions into doing what feels right in terms of one’s own religious or personal beliefs, to questioning how and why things are done as they are, to being assertive (neither aggressive nor passive), able to work well with others and to inventing new ways to do things and new things to do.  These changes will be made -- in time -- because our species require it, as our traditional methods and means have proven a failure.  A brief look at world violence, domestic violence, commercial exploitation of workers, consumerism and its harsh realities on our plant, and ultimately our future as well as future generations of inhabitants on this blue and green sphere we call Earth, and no further evidence is necessary to acknowledge this.

What am I trying to do about our situation?

I have envisioned Sonic Eye, a futuristic product that can be here with us fast, in a matter of months or at most years, and will transform education in our world, and thereby change our world, for the better, for most of populations... greedy corporate investors, militaries, prisons, police forces, and manufactures of weapons, diamonds, and status luxury goods may take a financial hit for the worse, but the rest of us may benefit highly.