Youth at Rescue!

Can Youth Save Our World ?: Alexander M Zoltai writes about the story of The World’s Youngest Principal - 17-year-old Zhang Yong and throws up some very powerful questions!

How do you think youth can be helped best to understand the world?

How do you think adults can be educated to accept the power and creativity of youth?

As we ponder over these, Alex shares a few inspiring quotes, one of them being:

“The cause of universal education deserves the utmost support,
for no nation can achieve success unless education is accorded all its citizens.
Such an education should promote
the consciousness of both the oneness of humanity
and the integral connection between humankind and the world of nature.
By nurturing a sense of world citizenship,
education can prepare the youth of the world
for the organic changes in the structure of society
which the principle of oneness implies.”
Bahá’í International Community, 1992 June 06, Earth Charter

Read it all at Our Evolution.

Teaching Methods

Teaching Methods: An interesting list of suggestions by Abraham Maslow on teaching children:

* Be authentic.
* Transcend their cultural conditioning and become world citizens.
* Find their vocation and right mate.
* Know that life is precious.
* Be good and joyous in all kinds of situations.
* Learn from their inner nature.
* See that basic needs are satisfied.
* Refresh their consciousness; appreciate beauty and other good things in life.
* Understand that controls are good, and complete abandon is bad.
* Transcend trifling problems
* Grapple with serious problems such as injustice, pain suffering and death
* Be good choosers
* Be given practice in making choices, later allowing choices in their religious beliefs.

Want to add to this list?

Sign up for the 'Teach Neta' campaign

Sign up for the 'Teach Neta' campaign: Bachi Karkaria writes

"My theory is that this whole campaign is not about Illiteracy Hatao,
but about hataoing ethically illiterate politicians.
I suspect that 'Teach India' is secretly about teaching our leaders a lesson,
creating a huge mass of empowered citizens
who will be able to sternly order them,
'Get out of the ruling class!'; 'Stand in the corner!'; 'Stand on the bench.
No, not on the Opposition Benches!'"