Dalia's Vision

When police investigate a tragic death at an unconventional school, its Headteacher must explain how adopting the futuristic methods of a sunken civilization, revealed by a student thirty years prior, led to both educational triumph and fatal envy.

SYNOPSIS

Two police detectives arrive at a primary school asking to speak to the headteacher, Mrs Simpson. The first detective plays a recording of a conversation between a teacher and a pupil. Thirty years ago, an eleven-year-old pupil, Dalia, describes her vision of teaching methods used on Atlantis. Regressing back to this civilisation, she describes the wisdom and benefits of the methods used at that time, which conflict strongly with the present curriculum, already in a state of crisis. Adopting these methods, Mrs Simpson is then sacked and goes on to set up her own school, where Dalia is now teaching, thirty years later. The school has developed a good reputation and great success, but envy and intrigue lead to a fatal consequence.

Why is this film important?

The present educational system is in a crisis with increasing mental disorders, criminality, bullying and bad behaviour in schools. The stress of exams and pressure of government requirements places fear and anxiety on teachers and the children, because the government presumes children to be prepared to fit into a prescribed industrial, commercial world to fulfil the needs of the nation in the future regardless of the essential fact that everyone is an individual and may not always suit the expectations demanded by the curriculum that fails to recognise diversity. We are all here living on this Earth for a reason, for a purpose, destined to fulfil a vocation in life which may not always need to blossom with academic skills. Every person is an individual but many children are growing up into fearful, insecure and unbalanced adults, defined in large part by their educational experience, but not helped by the increasing levels of disease, pollution and unhealthy living. Children do not have the space and time to know themselves well and find out what interests them. If nature was a regular part of young lives in primary schools, replacing forced academic study and examination testing, the children would blossom with confidence and the understanding that they are individual with different interests and skills. This understanding would prepare them well to be able to make the right choice for their ongoing study to direct them towards their individual interests and purpose in life. The system of education needs a complete revision and a revolution in teaching methods. The present curriculum can no longer be sustained if this sick and imbalanced World is to survive.

The 70-minute feature film drama, “Dalia’s Vision”, describes a little of a proposed replacement for the present educational system to help develop children at primary school age with a well-balanced understanding of their physical and spiritual structure. We are structured on the Earth as both physical and spiritual beings, but so much is not understood about our spiritual half, the essential part of our being which defines where we come from, why we are here on the Earth, our purpose, and where we return to after this life is complete. Children also need to identify with nature, work with nature and come into a greater understanding of the Natural Law. They should be allowed to investigate nature, a natural curiosity that all children enjoy, without the pressure and demands of an insensitive educational curriculum. A 30 second trailer of this film would be sent as an email campaign to all 20,700 primary schools in the UK to highlight existing problems in teaching and offer a sensible alternative system for child development. We published a booklet on our proposals some years ago, “The Erasmus Foundation Treatise on Education”, and this last year we responded to the government’s "call for evidence" on the present curriculum, although they claim to “seek evolution, not revolution”.