Positivity: Education

School is about to start up again. While certainly some kids will miss the freedom of the summer, education is, we adults know, hugely positive.

There is an incredibly infinite number of things to be learned in this world. There is information on every single topic, past present and future, to be gleaned. Education is an incredibly positive influence.

Education is how we have learned that the earth is round, that there are good and bad microscopic bacteria effecting our health, that two plus two equals four, that up is the opposite of down, and so on. Education is how we identify the amazing variety of species of plants and animals that also make up our world.

We never stop learning. Some people choose to work on furthering their education throughout their lives, while some people just sort of pick up new information along the way, willingly or otherwise. There is and will always be something to be learned. There will always be something new to discover, something unique to learn.

Education is why we can communicate instantaneously across the globe. Education is why we can study the cosmos and the micro-cosmos.

It is by educating ourselves about this world that we can find new ways to make it a better place. When we learn about how the things that make us all different are really, when you get right down to it, largely the same, we can see that intolerance and hate and disloyalty truly do not belong. All of us want to be happy, we want to feel we are empowered, we want to love and be loved, and we can learn that while the means may be different, the desired ends are pretty much all the same.

We have so much more to learn. It is by educating ourselves that we might find cures for the most devastating diseases; we can discover alternatives to fossil fuels; we can feed the hungry across the globe. Education should be encouraged, and expanded. The more we know, the more we WANT to know, I believe.

I have learned that a positive mindset feels better than a negative one. I have studied many sources to uncover this, and I share this every week because I believe that everyone should learn this as well.

Some people believe education is a negative. How, I ask, can anything that expands our knowledge and understanding of the world we live in be anything but positive? Knowledge is not simply power, knowledge is empowerment. Empowerment is a very positive thing, because it lets us choose to create more positivity for our lives.

Finding positivity is not hard, it just requires action. Knowing that there is always something more to be learned, ever more to educate ourselves about, we can broaden our perspective. Broadening our perspective lets us see more around us, and opens our minds. When we open our minds and strive to learn more about the world we live in, this can help us in generating a positive attitude. Positive attitude begets positive energy, and that is always a good thing.

This is the thirtieth entry of my Positivity series.  It is my hope these weekly messages might help spread positive energies for everyone.  Feel free to re-blog and spread the positivity.