Psychology of Environment: Smile, Be Happy

I am suggesting the following:
All the education in the world will not move people to live in a closer relationship with the environment.

This statement strikes me so very flawed to its core. It is more wrong than false and the reason is frightening. Though, to be a bit unfair, I did write it to be dismantled.

"All the education in the world" is too absolute and impossible a phrase, but is meant to stress that there is no level nor limit to the education one could receive to make the desired effect of connecting back to the environment to the degree which is required to calm our flailing planet. Education will enlighten a few for sure, but the majority will accept it as yet another form of passive or strictly guided learning. These are indeed bold statements, though once one grasps that education itself is holding us all back through its passive and narrowly convergent ways, the slate becomes blank.

The definition of education given by the most recent Merriam-Webster online source says this: 1 a : the action or process of educating or of being educated; also : a stage of such a process b : the knowledge and development resulting from an educational process education>
2 : the field of study that deals mainly with methods of teaching and learning in schools

I start to become sceptical about a definition when the source word is used within. Though to see it from the point of view of the student I’d have to say that it is the acquiring of knowledge which is directed from an instructor. I ask what knowledge and how is it integrated internally?

to be continued...