Directed Research presentation 2

1. INNOVATIONS
(from way back)
Innovations (from way back) // Charlene Sequeira // Directed Research // Summer 2012

2. EDUCATION
(from way back)
THE CONCEPT:
Society deliberately transmits its accumulated
knowledge, skills, customs and values
from one generation to another.
BEGINNINGS:
Adults trained the young (verbally & imitation)
Development of written language & Storty Telling
Innovations (from way back) // Charlene Sequeira // Directed Research // Summer 2012

3. EDUCATION
(from way back)
IN INDIA:
The Nalanda University -
oldest university-system
of education.
Buddhist center of
learning in Bihar, India,
from the fifth or sixth
century CE to 1197 CE.
“one of the first great
universities in recorded
history”.
Innovations (from way back) // Charlene Sequeira // Directed Research // Summer 2012

4. HINDU MYTHOLOGY
(from way back)
OVERVIEW:
2 great Hindu Epics, the Ramayana and the Mahabharata
2 specific incarnations of Vishnu (Rama and Krishna).
Serve as both religious scriptures and a rich source of
philosophy and morality for a Hindu.
Contain short stories and moral situations based
on Hindu laws and codes of righteousness.
Innovations (from way back) // Charlene Sequeira // Directed Research // Summer 2012

5. HINDU MYTHOLOGY
(from way back)
DEITIES:
Trimurti:
Brahma (the creator),
Vishnu (the sustainer)
Shiva (the destroyer)
Saraswati the goddess of learning,
Innovations (from way back) // Charlene Sequeira // Directed Research // Summer 2012

6. SUSTAINABILITY
(from not so way back)
MAHATMA GANDHI:
2 Oct. 1869 – 30 Jan.1948.
Father of Our Nation (India)
Advocate of vegetarianism,
nature cure, recycling, non-
violence and ciritical of
industrialism.
“Earth provides enough to
satisfy every man’s need,
but not every man’s greed”
Innovations (from way back) // Charlene Sequeira // Directed Research // Summer 2012

7. SUSTAINABILITY
(from not so way back)
DEEP ECOLOGY:
At the Third World Futures conference in Bucharest (1972):
Norwegian philosopher Arne Naess explained the difference
between shallow and deep ecology.
Deep Ecology is the radical idea that all life has the
right to exist, that no one species is more important
than another.
Innovations (from way back) // Charlene Sequeira // Directed Research // Summer 2012

8. SUSTAINABILITY
(from not so way back)
“Life is fundamentally one.
... the deep ecology
movement is the ecology
movement which questions
deeper... the adjective
‘deep’ stresses that we ask
why and how, where others
do not.” - Arne Næss
Innovations (from way back) // Charlene Sequeira // Directed Research // Summer 2012