[wwpoenglish] Education is the key to build a harmonious world Maria Cristina Azcona
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- Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2014 13:40:24 -0300
*Education is the key to build a harmonious world*
* Maria Cristina Azcona*
*Summary*
*The interchanging of educational and cultural values is probably the
unique utensil we have, to build a new horizon of love and respect, in a
harmonious and peaceful global village.** Modern thinkers on Education must
join efforts, abandoning any care about their individual fame, seeking
after harmonious peace for the entire human community, under strong moral
principles where their science must be firmly set. First and foremost, we
need to make a correct diagnosis about the weak points and the
correspondent necessities of the youngest generations. We may establish
some objectives as areas to be developed in children’s mind*
The interchanging of educational and cultural values is probably the unique
utensil we have, to build a new horizon of love and respect, in a
harmonious and peaceful global village. Education is not a mere training,
but a solid construction of a particular concept of humanity. Culture of
this era overvalues success. We are greatly satisfied when we see our
children grow up and reach their own financial independence. This is a good
thing, but sometimes we expect from them only convenient triumphs and
forget other developments, as a truth seeking thought in association with a
sensitive heart. On the other side, children that live in poverty are
rescued by education, because it is capable to take them from a sorrowful
future of delinquency, prostitution, illness, vagrancy and drugs. Education
in this sense can be a resourceful instrument to achieve an actualized
morality, in the very long but passionate travel to Peace. We must include
the permanent education or education of the adult, into peace education.
Maria Montessori said, "The life of the populations depends on peace and
perhaps progress or extinction of the entire civilization" and strongly
promoted the objective of Peace in Educational sciences. Psychology teaches
us that hostility is a key element in human relationship. In comparison to
animals, we find that they are not disposed to antagonistic initiative if
their instinct does not instruct them on an immediate forthcoming danger.
Our destructive side is more virulent, somewhere installed in our brains.
We are dangerous to Nature and to different species, specially our own. We
must understand that education must be redirected towards self-discipline
and not only towards "self-esteem" as nowadays-enthusiastic theories
sustain. We can distinguish two types of Peace Education.
· The education towards Peace through the learning of the conflict
resolution to assure that citizens will not use violence to resolve them.
· The education towards Peace through the development of moral
habits and social love, to produce citizens capable of building a peaceful
society. This kind of peace education is mostly related to a complete
definition of peace.
Although in past times education was synonymous of instruction and
restricted to the formation of youngsters and children by adults, education
is much more than that. We may start with the definition by Littré "
Education is the group of manual and intellectual habits that are
accomplished, and the moral qualities that are developed." For him,
education is an art more than a science. Aldus Huxley has said that the
objective of education is "the guidance of young human beings towards
freedom, justice and peace."We conclude that education is the development
of physical and intellectual habits, willpower, emotional intelligence, and
moral intelligence (moral judgment and feelings).Education endures all life
and its objective is the personalization and progressive humanization of
the human being. During last years, humanity has developed immense growth
in technical aspects and practical sciences. Paradoxically, philosophy is
only sustaining weak advances and modifications which are uniquely trying,
without any success, to justify and be at the side of rushing changes at
daily news referred to human life, in general. Philosophy of Education is
not out of this situation. Harmonious peace is in a severe danger. A total
disaster is winning the career where the looser will be not the Theorists
of Education but the next generation who is not receiving any chance to be
formed in good way. The sophistication of practical sciences advances is
not being accompanied by a well-designed educational basis, worldwide.
Modern thinkers on Education must join efforts, abandoning any care about
their individual fame, seeking after harmonious peace for the entire human
community, under strong moral principles where their science must be firmly
set. First and foremost, we need to make a correct diagnosis about the
weak points and the correspondent necessities of the youngest generations.
We may establish some objectives as areas to be developed in children’s mind
*Objectives*
·A profound level of thought based in high and simple moral values.
·Good habits, good behavioural patterns.
·A solid and at the same time flexible way of thinking, not based in
prejudices or pre/conceptualisations.
·An open mind orientated towards wisdom, beginning in healthy curiosity,
all the time, which looks after knowledge and understanding of the Truth.
·A capability of study new technologies in a non-stopping manner.
·An operative acknowledge on calculation and recognition of arithmetical
symbols.
·An operative acknowledge of native language and other.
·Awareness of the necessity to be continuously informed about geography,
biology, history and other sciences.
·Capability to understand symbols like maps, digital maps, and to search
for information in Internet resources.
·Capability to have an independent logic thought, based in strong developed
abilities.
·Capability to manage resources of any kind, with a critical eye on the
selection of material.
Also
- A Logical thought oriented to the discovering of Truth and Reality
through Adaptability and Stability
- A creative and innovative thought that may facilitate the Self
learning, the Efficiency and the Velocity through Positive Incidence
- Both aspects corresponding to the correspondent brain hemispheres,
matured by a solid formation in values and moral habits over the pillar of
culture (regional, national, and universal from a global perspective)
*Global Peace would be achievable if we start educating children from any
culture in this sense. We, already grownups are submerged in a violent
environment to which we are extremely used to. Nevertheless education yet
seems to be an infallible tool to reach a more pacific habitat where to see
our children and grandchildren grow. It is possible because education
creates more flexible, open minded, critical thinking and sensitive human
beings. True intelligence and true wisdom can never lead us to violence
because it is the result of intellectual and moral ignorance. Extreme
poverty, as a severe problem nowadays is usually associated to violence
through delinquency. Nevertheless terrorism and war as samples of extreme
violence are not related directly to extreme poverty. The destruction of
human life has many complex causes at all society levels and its common
denominator is the lack of a solid education in a scale of moral values
where the defense of Life is the most important one.Let education of
cognition and love, be the basis for a new generation towards harmonious
peace*
*María Cristina Azcona*
*Lic. María Cristina Azcona*
* WWPO Founder president*
*Organización mundial por la paz*
*Worldwide peace Organization*
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