In this age there is information overload. There are 1000 advertisements telling you what it is important for you to buy. There are 1000 books saying nuts are good for you and 1000 books saying nuts are bad for you. There are 1000 cities that your geography teacher asks you to remember. There are 1,000,000 women showing you what you should wear. In every aspect of your life you are given apparently 1000 choices but in fact are being brainwashed, subconsciously or consciously told what to do and learn and think about.

The modern day information overload is not really information only, not about choice. It is not important whether Einstein's theory of relativity was right or wrong. His discoveries are irrelevant to man. Modern day ‘information' is about directing your life to suit the needs of the vendor, teacher, etc. The teacher will lose his or her job if he or she does not follow the school curriculum. He or she has been programmed to think that he or she should get you to achieve high marks in school. The advertiser will lose his or her job if he or she does not manage to persuade 1000 people to buy Mars bars.

The result is enormous pressure on the mind. The mind of a child should be free, free to roam and engage in random pleasurable activities. Instead nowadays it is focussed on computer games and school homework. It is under constant heavy stress. In adulthood, the same applies. An adult mind should also be like that of a child: free to roam and dwell, at random on pleasurable activities as these arise from moment to moment. Instead the man's is focussed 100% on his work, going over and over the same thing 1000 times. Similarly, the woman's mind when with her husband or not at work is focussed, going over and over the same thing 1000 times, this ‘problem' or that one (should the car be white or green, we do not have enough money to buy a Mercedes,..), this argument or that one.

The main focus of a teacher should be to teach his student (or child) how to relax the mind and bring it back to the purity of a child. This is what the mind most wants and is the main thing needed in order for the person to achieve happiness and his or her life objectives.

Of course sometimes one needs also to teach something ‘useful'. You need to teach the essentials (city names are listed on maps,..): the objectives of the subject, its conclusions, the methods to be followed. This is the traditional learning method in all societies in the past.

There was in the past no over focus on developing the analytical faculties of the mind at the expense of losing touch with nature and with one's heart. The ‘Red Indian' boy did not study algebra. In the age we are entering, algebra will be irrelevant too. Your student or child will need a rounded education suitable for the times just as the Red Indian boy or girl had.

The parent needs to teach his or her child about manhood and womanhood, about being a human, about life and life issues, about ethics, about happiness and health and about God. He or she needs to teach the child about what is important in life (whether your spouse is sad, for example) and what is not important (how costly are your shoes).

Once the student has been taught these things and has understood them, the job of the teacher or parent is done. He or she should not then continue to be ‘your' student or ‘your' child.