‘[Our current educational system] was taken right out of the factory. What was needed to power the Industrial Revolution? Just think about it. Obedience. Punctuality. Competitive work. So we put knowledge into fixed categories. We put [students] into fixed categories. We give out information in an assembly-line fashion. At some point, we got the idea that human beings are just like a factory line.’

One reason for Matrix Integral’s plan to establish a learning community is our disillusionment with the present educational system. How many young people, burning with creativity and lust for life, have been crushed by their high-schools, or even universities? It seems like those with a desire to truly learn, change, grow, and take action face two options: rebelling and facing constant derision, or conforming and crushing themselves.

A possible tactic for those of you who are dissatisfied with the educational system you are faced with and are yearning for more is to ignore the soul-crushing requirements and strictures of school, to do your own thing. Maybe it means skipping class to go to a demonstration or even to just hang out with your friends, who at least provide some stimulating conversation. Or maybe it means doing the bare minimum required, so you have time to do your own reading. And what are such students faced with? Instead of praise for their self-motivated initiative, instead of acknowledgment of the good they do and the things they want, they are faced with ‘bad grades.’ Another way of naming the system’s scream of ‘Comply or be damned!’

Another tactic for those of you yearning to learn is to try your hardest to conform and learn what you’re told to learn. You like learning, so you do all you should, and then some. You finish each project having learned what you were meant to, but are somehow left with a sense of fragmentation. Modern education provides little to no overall understanding of what you’ve learned or tried to accomplish. Facts and figures abound, but what meaning do they provide? What is the point? What’s more- with the industrial-strength demands of education, you’ve had no time for yourself. At the end of the day, who are you anyway?

And of course, others of you have long since given up on education, to pursue your own path. Perhaps you’ve started up a business or enterprise, or been volunteering or traveling, or working part-time. Yet the desire for things to change is still there, a steady humming in the background. The only question is how?

At Matrix Integral, we We firmly believe that there is a better alternative to the present educational system, and we want to provide it. Education need not be an assembly-line, choking off souls with heaps of information. Instead, education can bring forth the best in each person, aligning them with their soul and igniting their inner vision.

Read more about our year-long proposed education in the Education section and additional services in the Services section.