Simple is a relative descriptive adjective, as is complexity. To say that understanding has arrived based on a couple of months of videos and reading assignments suggests that the analysis of educational systems, the subject of which focuses on the system of parenting as it applies to and within the macro scope of the education industry, may require additional study before understanding, objectively speaking, can be considered.
Being a budding research analyst and a lifelong learner has taught me that there will never be enough time, that there has never been and never will be enough time to satisfy all one’s curiosities or to learn all one needs to learn. “Oh, if I only had another eighty years!” – Claude Monet.
Reflecting on the parenting system as a system has led me to discover that uncovered aspects and a perspective of parenting have fostered an uncomfortable concern. The concern manifests itself in reflections on my childhood and my children and stirred up biases and refutations of intentional political and religious manipulations and indoctrination of children. I cannot express fully how the project is going other than to say that the analysis has been expanding, and the work has left nagging questions bouncing around my unconscious sleep and a conscious pondering of how I will proceed with the following two tasks.
When asked what I will do differently in the future, to presume that the choices made in the past were erroneous, for hindsight can be 20/20, and that reconsidering choices made requires revision. Nonsense! Reflecting on the past is an illusion of the present; conversely, there is no such thing as the future, for it is a delusion. One can only do things differently in the present moment.
Instructional Engineering - A Journey of Discovery 