Why Every School On Earth Starts By Teaching Writing

Take a second to think about it.

Many decades ago when you were a little sapling, your pre-k teacher started off with a specific assignment.

Letters.

They gave you those worksheets with giant dotted lines and you had to recreate each letter by hand.

It doesn't matter what language you speak, or where in the world you live...pretty much every education institution starts us off with a lesson in writing.

And that says a lot.

I'll be the first to say that our current education systems need to be overhauled from the ground up.

But I must also admit that our educators are thoughtful geniuses for choosing writing as the first and most essential core skill.

And as a math fanatic, that kills me to say.

But the truth is, writing is arguably the most important skill for humans to learn.

There's a simple way to see how impactful writing is to the human race.

I keep it super simple and ask myself two questions.

Question 1. What would life look like if I completely removed this thing from my life?

Question 2. What would life look like if this thing was completely removed from all of humanity?

Think about how depressing and difficult it would be to do every day tasks if you were unable to write.

And let's not mention how the world would crumble into pieces without it.

That means no movie scripts, no books, no texting, no letters, no blogs, no history, and more.

Writing is important.

Unlike soda for example.

I think we'd be quite alright if soda disappeared from planet Earth.

Honestly, we might be much healthier and happier as a result. (I'm still investing in Coca-Cola though.)

Okay, okay we understand that writing is a powerful skill and the world needs it.

But the question still remains why?

Why is writing so much more foundational than a math or even something as powerful as reading?

Here's why.

Writing has nothing to do with hand writing, being good at typing, or learning to use capital letters at the right time.

As a matter of fact, if you removed all those aspects writing would still be the most essential skill to learn as humans.

And that's because writing isn't the skill of putting pen to paper, writing is the skill of conveying thoughts and ideas.

We're all born on this Earth with a mind. And our minds have so many unique ideas flowing within them.

But we would never understand how to document and share those ideas without writing.

Of course we can always speak and make phonetic sounds out our mouths.

But those sounds wouldn't make any sense or add any value to other humans without learning how to organize them.

And that's the true beauty of writing.

Before I started writing these words, I had a vague idea of what I wanted to share.

"Writing is important.", my brain thought.

But it's through the process of filtering and organizing the mumbo jumbo in my head that I turned that thought into a shareable thought.

The beauty of humans is that our minds all process the world in very different ways.

So we all have unique perspectives to share.

When we learn to write we are essentially learning to master our minds.

We are learning to take our stream of consciousness and turn it into shareable, coherent, thoughts.

To build a bigger, better, faster world, we have to get better at sharing ideas.

And every time you write, you learn how to negotiate, document, inquire, market, and present a little bit bett...

In progress,

Tim Lightwork