Service vs Education

Most religions and much of spirituality focus on the soul as student, as child, embodying in order to learn basic lessons of existence. Somewhat like mathematics, these lessons are seen as needing to be learned in order and once we learn one we are graded, rewarded, and can then be assigned a new lesson to learn and so on. As learning and becoming are some of the major purposes of this planet and what the majority of souls are embodying to do, this is in general fairly accurate as far as generalizations go. One thing to note is life is not math so we don’t need to learn one lesson at a time and most people don’t just as we don’t learn one and only one thing at a time when we are children. School is where we learn not only academic subjects, but social rules and dynamics, how to interconnect one-on-one with others our own age as well as adults outside our social circle, and that the world is a much bigger place than the universe of “home” which we have come to know. And that’s just first grade.

Also, there’s a lot more to learning something than just “getting it.” The true test is in whether or not we can apply what we think we have learned. For example, in getting a driver’s license there is both a written and a practical exam. The intellectual knowing of something doesn’t make you a driver and one particular moment in time where you are demonstrating the complex task of driving doesn’t mean you are able to…