It is impossible to have an objective truth.

There are no correct answers, only different shades of the rainbow of life. Everything is subject to the perspective of the beholder. Their perspective of life makes their reality.

From the moment we can sense the world around us we are formulating what is and what is not truth. For a child, most things are possible, because they haven’t yet been taught otherwise. Parents protect the child who thinks they can fly, until the child comprehends gravity. Most of us do not challenge what we have been taught. Unfortunately, it is that teaching that leads us to ignorance. The more we are taught, the less we learn. We regurgitate the rote memorization's of teaching, without actually learning anything.

When my daughter was in first grade, one of her spelling words was delicatessen. She didn’t know what it was, nor did she care to find out. She didn’t have time. She had a list of four and five syllable words to learn by weeks end. As far as she was concerned, she just needed to memorize the letter sequence to please the teacher, and then she could go out and play.

I home schooled all three kids. I started out with the lesson plans and curriculums, but soon realized it was the same as they had experienced in school. My goal became, to “teach” the kids how to learn. Kids come with a built in desire to explore and experience. I wanted them to take that and build upon it by learning. I provided the tools, then I let them led the lesson to be learned.

There is a term called “unschooling”, which in theory is similar to the methods I used when home schooling. We spent a great deal of time experiencing, similar to the high school graduate that wants to travel the world before college. We traveled the US, with books in tow, but the emphasis was on learning.

There is a five year difference between our oldest and our youngest. When the oldest was learning math, the youngest was very interested. The youngest picked up quickly the math lessons of grades far beyond his years. Had he been in school, he would have been being taught the letter combination of delicatessen, but he was at the Grand Canyon learning the fundamentals of algebra.

A person believes things to be true because of what they have been taught, and, what they have experienced. (Oh, how often these two conflict!) Nothing can be an objective truth because everyone’s experience is different. Thus, no one is right, and no one is wrong.

Peace!

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