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Educational Insight and Scientific Outlook for Peace
The greatest problem of life today is the problem of living a peaceful life. It is our indispensable quest for a it that
we cannot have any type of peace without peace of mind. The right approach for peace of mind appears when we combine both spiritual and scientific or materialistic values as a blend for better grasp of concepts. Wilfred A. Peterson puts it in his own words that in a world in which nuclear power exists our only hope of survival are to be better humans. Up to this point in history, humans'' greatest discoveries seem to have made us to live in the realm outside of ourselves. We must now begin to explore more vigorously the '''' great within'''' of human- to discover the secrets of mind and spirit.
The discovery of nuclear power may do its greatest good by forcing us to change the direction of our thinking. Years before the discovery of nuclear power, Charles Proteus Steinmetz, the electrical wizard, called attention to the need for this change of direction when he wrote that the spiritual power is a force which history clearly teaches has been the greatest force in the development of humans. Yet, we have been merely playing with it and have never really studied it as we have the physical forces. Some day we will learn that material things do not bring happiness, and are of little use in making people creative and powerful. Then the scientists of the world will turn their laboratories over to the study of spiritual forces, which we have hardly have time to scratch.
Somewhere amidst the atoms, electrons, neutrons and protons which make up the creative energies in which ''''we live and move and have our being" will be discovered the secrets of prayer, character, growth, thought, spirit and immortality. With open minds and open hearts, we must put the spirit of human under the microscope.
John Burroughs puts in his words that nature is the source of all that we need. He points that if we were to name the three most precious resources of life, we should say books, friends, and nature; and the greatest of these, at least the most constant and always at hand, is nature. Nature we have always with us, an inexhaustible storehouse of that which moves the heart, appeals to the mind, and fires the imagination-health to the body, a stimulus to the intellect, and joy to the soul. To the scientist, nature is a storehouse of facts, laws, processes; to the artist she is a storehouse of pictures; to the poet she is a storehouse of images, fancies, a source of inspiration; to the moralist she is a storehouse of precepts and parables; to all she may be a source of knowledge and joy.
Thus, our interaction with Nature by any means gives us the most rare gift of peace, joy and harmony when our approach is integrated and dynamically thoughtful and reflective. Without learning, it is not possible to lead towards peace of mind, which is to learn both from nature and from each other and one another. Learning is a process to discover, our ignorance. We need self-study about the educational insight for peace.
It is a great honor to our civilization that we have attributed all our spiritual and materialistic achievements to education. While focusing on peace of mind, we will lead ourselves with insight of education. It is thus an educational approach, a call to reach some comprehensive results about peace and harmony of humanity in general and of and for mind in particular.
Published: August 13, 2007
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