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Ancient Wisdom-Modern Science
The document discusses several topics related to education for the 21st century including: 1. The need to create a global mindset rather than a nationalistic one and emphasize human development over solely economics. 2. The importance of encouraging inquiry, originality, and cooperation over conformity and competition. 3. How teachers should facilitate learning rather than act as experts dispensing knowledge, and how education should cultivate a mind that is both scientific and religious.
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- 1. Original PowerPoint Slides Created by KVK. Nehru Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University Hyderabad, India Ancient Wisdom - Modern Science Right Education for 21st Century
- 2. E COLOGICAL F OOTPRINT Marginally Interacting Globally Interacting Non-Interacting
- 3. G OALS ANDTHE G OAL-MAKER OLD GOALS ?
- 4. G EOLOGICAL C ALENDAR 24 h Planet Earth 1 h 43 m Great Reptiles Man 43 s Now 14 h Biological Life
- 5. The Constitution ofthe Human Being GROSS PHYSICAL (STHÛLA) ETHERIC DOUBLE (PR Â NAMAYA) ASTRO-MENTAL (K Â MA) CAUSAL (KÂRANA) SELF (ÂTMA -- BUDDHI -- MANAS) MONAD (TURIYÂTMA) THE PERSONALITY
- 6. H IERARCHY OF B IOLOGICAL L EVELS BIOSPHERE COMMUNITIES POPULATIONS ORGANISMS ORGAN SYSTEMS ORGANS TISSUES CELLS ORGANELLES COMPOUNDS ATOMS SUB-ATOMS STRUCTURAL COMPLEXITY
- 7. T HE T WO H EMISPHERES SPEECH, VERBAL SPATIAL, MUSICAL LINEAR HOLISTIC LOGICAL, MATHEMATICAL ARTISTIC, SYMBOLIC SEQUENTIAL SIMULTANEOUS INTELLECTUAL EMOTIONAL DETAILED INTUITIVE, CREATIVE WORLDLY SPIRITUAL ANALYTIC SYNTHETIC PERCEPTION OF SIGNIFICANT ORDER PERCEPTION OF ABSTRACT PATTERNS RECOGNITION OF COMPLEX FIGURES
- 8. Right Education for the 21st Century 1. Create a Global Mind, not a Nationalistic One 2. Emphasize Human Development, not only Economics 3. Encourage Inquiry, Originality, not Conformity 4. Cultivate Cooperation, not competition 5. Teachers as facilitators, rather than experts dispensing knowledge 6. Create a Mind that is both Scientific and Religious in the true sense 7. Processes and Procedures as important: not just the end-results
- 9. Thank You THANK YOU
Editor's Notes
- #2 Some Works Referred 1. Global Consciousness Project, website at http://noosphere.princeton.edu 2. Goleman, D., Emotional Intelligence, Bantam Books, New York, NY, USA, 1996 3. Jantsch, E., The Self-Organizing Universe, Pergamon, New York, 1980 4. Krishna, P., ‘Right Education for the Twenty-first Century,’ XXII Intl. Montessori Congress, University of Uppsala, Sweden, July 1997 5. Larson, D.B., Beyond Space and Time, Tucek and Tucek Pub. Co., 1651 W. San Lucas Dr., Tuczon, AZ 85704, USA, 1994 6. Leadbeater, C.W., Man, Visible and Invisible, TPH, Chennai, India, 1971, Plate IV 7. Lemkow, A.F., The Wholeness Principle: Dynamics of Unity within Science, Religion and Society, Theosophical Pub. House, Wheaton, Ill., USA, 1990 8. Laszlo, E., “Holistic Science and the Vision of Peaceful and Sustainable Society,” Trans. Theosophy Science Center, Theosophical Society, Adyar, Chennai, India, 2003 9. Krishnamurti, J., The Network of Thought, Krishnamurti Foundation, India, 1982 (TPH --- Theosophical Publishing House, Adyar, Chennai – 600 020, India)