On the way to a second age of enlightenment I am now met with the intermediate goal "Filter competence." What is it and why should this be a new school subject?
It is in our everyday life, in nature, in our neighborhood or in distant lands to discover so many innovative ideas and to meet so many interesting people. Unfortunately, we often overlook these opportunities or ignore them. Why is that?
Today's (Western) culture is shaped by filters that relieve us of the independent thinking and searching. Outsourcing! Google is part of it in the car navigation system, but also a daily newspaper, which transports us pre-filtered items that could possibly interest us, into the house. Also, twitter and facebook have a filter function - our friends and followers. The truly unexpected We encounter only rarely.
What would happen if it is not these filters would be? We would enter mental territory. We would want to understand and exert our own minds. We would come within mental expeditions to new ideas and give our (western) culture with fresh impetus. We would hear stories of people from the neighborhood or from far away and tolerate different opinions.
And why "Filter competence" as a school subject? The schools and universities are the forums where this new spirit not only taught, but could find practical application. Here could we discover in all subjects the new, rather than the old to learn by heart.
goal of everyone and should be of each one of us to develop her / his own "filter competence," to get involved in something new - unfiltered, only reflects her / his own mind! The reward is won in the new findings, a new friend or an idea.
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