Putting Things in Perspective

A Powerful Talk by Joe Backholm

During this time of international stress — where a lot of bad things could easily happen — it’s important to be able to see our life in perspective.

A while back, I heard this talk live and was impressed with what the speaker, Joe Backholm, had to say. Although the following is one talk, it has been broken into two parts, by subtopics.

I particularly appreciated the fact that he did a fine job connecting what’s happening in the world today with the K-12 curricula. Please click on the screen expander icon in the upper left-hand corner. That is important to be able to see what is on his slides.

He starts by asking four extremely important questions that we ALL should have considered and answered. I also found his observations about why so many people are focused on injustices, to be very revealing. Enjoy…

Introduction to Worldview

Education Indoctrination

This fascinating (shorter) part connects the worldview understanding with what is happening in U.S. K-12 schools. Note that at ~2 minutes he says that a key part of the indoctrination strategy is that children are taught NOT to Think Critically. This is the gist of what we should be fighting to fix…

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