Integrative Education for the Integrated World

Integrative Education for the Integrated World

Education

According to a year-old report, there are more than two hundred million unemployed in the world. Over the coming year, this number will grow astronomically, as global production wanes and natural resources continue to dwindle. This development constitutes an enormous problem for the unemployed themselves, as well as for society and governments, which are utterly powerless to stop it. As the ranks of the unemployed grow worldwide, the need for a comprehensive educational course, explaining the new integrated world and its governing laws, will be indispensable in preventing the kind of bloodshed and unrest that we’re already beginning to see materialize. So what is this “new world” that the global crisis is ushering us into? Well, if we take a step back and analyze the word “crisis,” it actually doesn’t have a negative connotation. Rather, it signifies a new stage that is similar to birth. We know from experience that transitioning from one state to another is hard, as it entails coming out of your comfort zone. Whether it’s changing jobs or modifying any other aspect of life, we tend to resist change and prefer to stay within a familiar operating system. With that in mind, there are two sides to this global crisis. On the one hand, we are experiencing genuinely awful and dramatic afflictions: horrendous floods, earthquakes, tsunamis, volcano eruptions, riots and wars, revolutionary coups, bloodshed in the streets, and increasingly dimming prospects of a bright future. On the other hand, we may view our current predicament as the normal pains of a process we don’t yet acknowledge, one in which we transition from one state to another. These...
Skimping On Education Won’t Pay Off

Skimping On Education Won’t Pay Off

Education

In the News: “Two-thirds of the young people in court [charged over the August riots in England] were classed as having some form of special educational need, compared to 21% for the national average. More than a third of young people who were involved in the riots had been excluded from school during 2009-10 – this compares with Department for Education records showing 6% exclusions for all Year…” (Source: BBC) The situation in the U.S. is not much better. The consequences of saving on education are already being felt. The latest crisis is proving that those who stop investing in education may lose everything. The new, global education is necessary for everybody, regardless of age, gender, and occupation – to learn about the new world, new social conditions, and the need for mutual responsibility among all members of society. Otherwise, we can lose everything! Global (integrative) education implies studying the laws of nature, the laws of homeostasis, balance, and harmony. We need to explain and demonstrate to children and adults that we are all inter-connected, governed by the Law of Nature, and have to act accordingly. To be a single organism, one whole, means to consider and accommodate each others’ interests. Otherwise, we will be receiving Nature’s blows until we finally realize that we have no choice but to unite. These lessons will force us to renounce our egoism; we will be willing to do anything to avoid suffering. But it could be achieved by a conscious choice, in joyful cooperation, if we accept and apply the principles of mutual responsibility to our lives.   Two Simple Steps We need to come...
Why Global Education?

Why Global Education?

Education

Many people don’t understand how the failure of our education system can be due to lack of unity between us. In fact, what today is called “education” offers knowledge but does not foster development of a human being. Schools do not raise children to be happy, functional people but merely provide a certain amount of knowledge in math, history, physics, and various other subjects. Society expects the education system to assist in raising a child; but, as a matter of fact, it hardly does the job. It is becoming increasingly clear from the results and from the subjects studied. How many lessons and class discussions are aimed at nurturing of a human being? Is there such a concern? Even when the educators care about this, their hands are tied by government regulations and conflicting parental demands. School curricula are filled with sciences and “humanities”, but we don’t seem to be able to figure out why we are having so many difficulties with our children. When they finish school, the problems intensify. Today, schools produce workers trained to perform in various enterprises (be it an engineer or an auto mechanic). The task of education is to prepare a “unit” to take its place in the industry “pipeline.” Our boards of education are not measured on what kind of person one becomes or how he will live, nor do they have workable models on how to do this. This is because the education system doesn’t set a goal of raising a wholesome person, a human being. The education system has never been aimed at that. The school as we see it...