Who will teach family enculturation? This, too, will begin at the local level. I do not anticipate that the educational hierarchies of 50 states and over 1,600 local school districts will initially take on the work of enculturating future generations of socially sustainable families and individuals. For that to occur, far more must be done than these one page Posts, which simply point to the need, and provide the three core values of our species as the starting point for the development of information, training and educational instructional materials. Hopefully the instructional materials needed to train and teach families how to instill socially sustainable enculturation in children will be well developed before more paramount social concerns erupt than at present.
The discussion of teaching social sustainability within the family will become a topic first for couples who have not yet had children, and those who already do. Because the “Continuum of Social Sustainability” follows the life of every individual from a time before birth until their death, the learning process will eventually become standard knowledge of the societies that choose to develop sustainability. At each stage of the Continuum there are specific skills that enhance survival, existence, a stable life and sustainability. Historically and culturally grandparents in extended families have taught these skills. As democratic societies have become more and more complex, with a multitude of activities for every age group outside of the family, no one teaches those life-skills any longer.
You can anticipate that whenever a school district has decided to teach the fundamentals of social sustainability, that it will repercuss in every other social institution in that district and surrounding districts. Because of the consistency and integrity of the three values of social sustainability, they will become the standard to estimate, validate and judge every other social institution and organizations. The reason is simple – the social ethics, morality and social standards that are practiced today are grossly inconsistent. We can also anticipate that as education takes on the habits of self-discipline and consistency, that education will become the premiere social institution of the times and future. The development of “Reality Education” will have as its secondary function to inform and educate the principles of every other institution to become self-disciplined and socially responsible.