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cmestoque
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Advocating Education for Peace, Sustainable Development and Environment through Global Learning
October 12, 2007 - 02:05 PM
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"There are two types of education... One should teach us how to make a living, and the other how to live."
- John Adams
We educate others and ourselves to learn and enhance our existing knowledge and skills. We all aim to become globally competitive to end up productive. But where is the thrust of our becoming educated?
Everyday, anywhere, violence, discriminations and a lot of oppressive and depressing events and stories unfold right before our eyes, be it in school, church, public governance and worst, at home! Where did we fail in educating this generation?
I believe global competitiveness need not bargain the value of one’s existence. It is not enough to develop our skills only for our own survival; rather it is a need to maximize our full potentials to see on a bigger perspective the kind of world we are into...but we will never see it, if we don't change our way of thinking!
Global education could open our eyes. Through the use of information and communication technology, we can
reach out globally at a cheap cost and at our convenience. Maximizing these available tools around us could foster global respect as we understand each other's uniqueness and individual needs.
A lot have been taking advantage of these technologies for wrong motives, which further aggravates the complexities of our world. But the real battle lies on our own hands. Whether we choose to remain passive or be proactive in taking the solution. So many things have been said, written and read, but few have taken real steps.
The challenge to combat this abusive manipulation could start right within our homes and teaching institutions where all of us could partake towards this call for change.
We need education for peace and not for our own personal pleasure, for sustainable development and not for overnight good deeds and for environment and not for selfish consumptions.
What we need is EDUCATION FOR ALL, that will eradicate selfishness and make everyone learn how to make a living together in harmony with others.
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Erick Ochieng Otieno
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Re: Advocating Education for Peace, Sustainable Development and Environment through Global Learning
October 12, 2007 - 03:32 PM
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cmestoque wrote:
"There are two types of education... One should teach us how to make a living, and the other how to live."
- John Adams
We educate others and ourselves to learn and enhance our existing knowledge and skills. We all aim to become globally competitive to end up productive. But where is the thrust of our becoming educated?
Everyday, anywhere, violence, discriminations and a lot of oppressive and depressing events and stories unfold right before our eyes, be it in school, church, public governance and worst, at home! Where did we fail in educating this generation?
I believe global competitiveness need not bargain the value of one’s existence. It is not enough to develop our skills only for our own survival; rather it is a need to maximize our full potentials to see on a bigger perspective the kind of world we are into...but we will never see it, if we don't change our way of thinking!
Global education could open our eyes. Through the use of information and communication technology, we can
reach out globally at a cheap cost and at our convenience. Maximizing these available tools around us could foster global respect as we understand each other's uniqueness and individual needs.
A lot have been taking advantage of these technologies for wrong motives, which further aggravates the complexities of our world. But the real battle lies on our own hands. Whether we choose to remain passive or be proactive in taking the solution. So many things have been said, written and read, but few have taken real steps.
The challenge to combat this abusive manipulation could start right within our homes and teaching institutions where all of us could partake towards this call for change.
We need education for peace and not for our own personal pleasure, for sustainable development and not for overnight good deeds and for environment and not for selfish consumptions.
What we need is EDUCATION FOR ALL, that will eradicate selfishness and make everyone learn how to make a living together in harmony with others.
I just can't tell you how right you are. Unfortunately, we don't usualy want to see it as clearly as you have put it.
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