Cuatro preguntas sencillas:
- ¿Cómo desacelerar para llegar más lejos, ir más allá?
- ¿Cómo hacer menos, pero hacerlo bien?
- ¿Cómo tener una vida más plena con menos cantidad?
- ¿Cómo crear un futuro que sea rico en tiempo y nos permita prestar atención a lo que nos rodea y a lo que hacemos?
Si pudiéramos contestar estas preguntas en nuestras universidades, si los jóvenes las reflexionaran a fondo, sería un buen comienzo para mejorar la educación… y nuestro mundo.
Maybe university is the place to learn this. What about before university that is when we form our instincts, intuitions, feelings, connections. We need our young children to be allowed to do more of these things and less ‘learning’. Wu Wei comes to mind, when nothing is done nothing is left undone…
Dick: Yes, I am a bit biased toward higher education, because it’s my everyday environment. I am concerned about the way the public university is getting deteriorated nowadays, and how the students are only interested in having a career and being competitive and successful in the global economy (they don’t even know what globalization really is). David Orr says: “Our planet doesn’t need more successful people! But I am fully aware that a new education has to start with children, when they are not too spoiled by school (an interesting case is Capra’s Center for Ecoliteracy, in the USA). Wu Wei… ¡Yes! Doing nothing that is against nature. Rick, I wonder if Wu Wei has something to do with David Peat’s concept of “gentle action”. Thanks for your comment.