1. of May

The day of celebrating the fight for work. This is what most know about this day, but this is just one thing happening on this day. We start the spring, we fight for freedom, we fight for the right of a good work and money to live of, we remember the big fights between people and the police and all the fire coming up and we remember that we sometimes don't know who is fighting and for what. The extremist use this day and the people who just wants to fight for just the reason to fight. 
Does anybody remember that the Nazis invented this day 1933 as the "National working day" in Germany? Or that in 1977 in Turkey 37 people died while they where demonstrating? Or that the Royal Air Force was going to make a "War" for the Falkland Islands? Or that in 2004 ten new Countries became part of Europe?
But mostly it is the day of fight for equality in work- like the fight from the Aborigines in 1946, as most of them were the famers. 
But most of these fights have something in common. Education. Without this, people would not know how to fight, for what to fight and what to do. 
For work education is very important, although it always was and still is very different what people learn. And also what they are able to learn. 
Education is very important for your fight for freedom too, because if you just learned to listen without thinking by yourself, you are easy to become a victim of others, of thoughts who work against you and your needs and will, even if you are not aware of it. To learn to understand the meaning of words is a big challenge, because words can mean so much. Body language is part of understanding. It can make a difference between peace and war. Educated people who have learned to think self are less to take action in war, then unknown and blind people. 
Education also gives you the opportunity to live your life in your own way, because if you know how to plant, where to get water and how to exchange things, you are harder to make a slave. But that is one of the reason extremist kill teacher, burn schools and try to keep women away from knowledge. That's why the church tells people that they have to follow the rules and the interpretations the preachers are given without asking. Cos fear is easier to put in your heart when you are bad educated. And fear makes you a believer and part of bad things. With fear you will denounce easier, kill easier, doom easier. 
Education gives you the possibility to express what you want and so you can get a better life. In that case it is sad to hear that the youngest are not learning to write and read the way we did, because some people think they should have a good time at school and are better not to press and correct. Sad because education, a good education is our future. And while the education is becoming better in the third world, it is getting worse in the first world, we struggle with economy and political changes.
But the biggest risk now seems to be that education is just in the way that students learn only to read and take the words as they read it but are not allowed to think by them self or even learn how to think and make conclusions and to see if the conclusions they made are logical. People don't learn to make the difference between feelings, emotions and thoughts.
I see this as a big problem, because propaganda has easy to deal with you and can sell things which are more or lesson or even so untrue. You stay stupid and follow just like a sheep and fear is crawling inside you but you can't tell why.
Having an own opinion is less welcome these days as it seems. 
Remember those people who have the power just have them because they don't want you to see, don't let you see, that the power lies in your knowledge. 
You are stronger as you may know and are always more free then you've learned. 
A good education will teach you that. 
So teach your child to read, speak and think. Learn it by yourself by reading and thinking about what you have read. Question what you read, because not every word tells you the truth. Like when we heard the other day that researches in science took to many limits and t.ex. many things we know about psychology is only true for high educated american and some european- but they told us it is true for everyone. 
Yes it can scary you sometimes, because to know and understand more gives you the idea of how much we have and how less we know from each other. But if we want a future with less risk, less damages and less war, we need the education and we need to build it up to make it the way that people learn to use their minds more instead of just following the words of others. Because just now we take everything we can to use to make money and forget that there is a future to plan, to think of and to talk about. Take the pic for some thoughts. 

Love & Light