Include physical & mental well-being to improve education
As Americans, we pride ourselves on our educational opportunities. But the fact is, education is not working. Even though we spend more money per student than any other country, our students still rank
far behind most of their international peers in math and science-and well behind U.S. test scores of 20 years ago. I would promote proven educational programs that directly increase intelligence and creativity
and simultaneously improve moral reasoning, self-reliance, and mental and physical health and well-being. These programs include sound approaches to nutrition; natural, preventive health education;
effective drug prevention; and innovative curriculum development, including programs to develop the full mental potential of students.
Source: www.Hagelin.org, ‘What Hagelin will do’
, Apr 1, 2000
Focus education on developing consciousness of students
Hagelin supports the following principles regarding education:
National standards and testing
Mandatory teacher testing
Fund computer training in public schools.
Hagelin would “promote proven educational approaches shown to develop the
consciousness or intelligence of the student, thereby increasing student creativity, moral reasoning, self-reliance, and mental & physical health & well-being, while providing mastery of technical skills necessary to compete in today’s society.”
Source: 2000 National Political Awareness Test
, Jan 13, 2000
Education needs mental and physical basics
[To improve education we need] certain basic things like nutrition and the nutrition of school lunches, especially in disadvantaged neighborhoods where malnutrition actually has been shown to have a very negative effect on academic performance.
But more fundamentally, curriculum innovations that spark the creativity of the kids in school and even technologies to develop the mind, like meditation.
Source: Jim Bohannon Show, Westwood One radio
, Nov 16, 1999
Model schools can test and showcase innovations
Many educational innovations are working, and this is what I think the Federal government’s role should be. Not to dictate local educational curricula, but to showcase programs that work through a half a dozen Federally funded model schools in which the
programs that are most effective in various types of schools are simply showcased and researched so that teachers and principals and parents from across the country can pick and choose from among these most successful model programs.
Source: Jim Bohannon Show, Westwood One radio
, Nov 16, 1999
Purpose of education is to develop innate mental potential
Graduates from our high schools are using 5-10% of their innate mental potential. We believe deeply in educational innovations that will allow us to compete in the information age and will allow us to develop more of our innate mental potential.
It’s difficult for us to even imagine what life will be in this country when our education stops failing and we begin to develop more of this potential. Mind, creativity, intelligence will be replacing brute force as the engines of social progress.
Source: Washington Journal, C-SPAN
, Sep 5, 1999
Education is key to solving all of our problems
Education that succeeds in unfolding our greatest national resource, the full creative potential of our 250 million citizens, will solve all of the problems we face as a nation. Or, put another way, I don’t think we will really come to solve
many of the nation’s most pressing problems of crime and drug abuse and spiraling health costs and so forth as long as we’re continuing to use 5-10% of our full mental potential, which is the outcome of the existing educational system in this country.
Source: National NLP conference call
, Sep 27, 1992
John Hagelin on School Choice
Supports vouchers, charter schools, & block grants
Hagelin supports the following principles regarding school choice:
Allow parents to use vouchers or tax-free savings accounts to send their children to any participating school: public, private or religious.
Support creation of more charter
schools where teachers and professionals receive authorization and funding to establish new schools.
Give all federal education funding to states in the form of block grants and allow the states to spend it as they see fit.
Source: 2000 National Political Awareness Test
, Jan 13, 2000
Improved public education might lead to vouchers later
What I’d rather do, in order to avoid that controversy [vouchers], is focus first on educational programs that have been successfully adopted in public and private schools that will eliminate the problems of the school systems and provide much better
educational outcomes for all. Once people feel that the public school system is in a much better stead, people will be far more open to implementing a system like vouchers that would make possible more choice in the educational system for their children.
Source: National NLP conference call
, Sep 27, 1992
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