Values driven education key to the future of humanity
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many of us believe
that the world in which we live in is
not what we intended it to be
many of us wish that this world were a
better place
look around you and you will see the
faces of many unhappy people
they are hungry they are poor
and many die young and they have no
orientation in their lives
because someone had disturbed had
disrupted
their destiny
think about the story the ancient
chinese
they were harassed by mongolians so they
said you know what
we need internal peace so they built a
wall
the great wall of china which people
visit from around the world every year
and this was 300 years before christ was
born
it is the highest wall and became a
unesco
heritage center
by having built the wall the chinese
emperor juan
believed that no one would ever again
penetrate
to disturb their internal peace so they
only had guards
at the entrance of the place but when
soldiers
came infantry enemies came
they did not need to climb the walls
they just
bribed the guards who collected money
and opened the gates for the soldiers to
enter
and this chinese beautiful city and wall
had been invaded in 100 years
several times making the point
that they spent money to build walls
very high and did not spend
time and energy to build the character
of those who will watch over the city
it shows the superiority of character
over the great chinese wall
a second example we can think about
genoa
only two years ago just there in italy
a bridge very long in meters and high
just
collapsed people died
many lost their environments and their
assets
their cars and so one of the world’s
first best footballer
was involved in this the bridge is
repaired again
but something had happened an architect
had put out a drawing
engineers had built the bridge but they
had cut
corners and officials who knew
what was involved had kept quiet because
they had taken some money
the bridge collapsed lives were lost
do we need to go far 2008
to 2010 the world’s financial crisis
it happened layman brothers collapsed
arthur anderson as an audit firm
collapsed
many banks collapsed people were
scampering forward and money and so on
except for what we experienced recently
the terms of the coved
harassment which is just a virus the
financial collapse
had been one of the greatest for such a
long time within a century
but the financial collapse was not
caused by money that was changing color
or by the rains that were falling from
heaven or by
winds that were blowing here and there
or by the sunshine that they didn’t come
out
the financial collapse was caused by
human beings
who decided to truncate and undermine a
system
for personal good they took money
they hid information they doubled the
books
they undermined everything under my
navel and the wall collapsed
and only one god knows about the
millions of those who lost jobs
small or big
we need not think too far come around us
here
berlin an airport has been built in
schonefeld
and this airport will be opened many
many years after and postponed
just because the original costs
of the airport had been changed first
time
second time third time and its opening
had continued to wait and the airport
integral
has been overpressed and over pressured
by the demands of needs of transporters
again the ethical question
it is time for humanity to rise up
and to wake up because the question we
often ask is
why is the world so bad as it is
why are things not happening as they
should
and who’s going to change how we’re
going to bring
the new world of our dreams that people
can live in
safety and happiness that children can
wake up and laugh
and smile to the stars that adults and
old people can walk
hand in hand with stick thanking their
creator
and who made them and that our
environments can be so peaceful
why is it that the world’s so bad this
is the point
where education comes in because
education is that element
a duco a ducavi a ducatum
that leadership quality that trains me
to be responsible
to know that i exist but not only i
that there is a we to think the larger
picture the common good
the common good which made sokratis
to sit down and to bring young people
together of course he was murdered he
was killed
reason he is poisoning the minds of the
youth
by teaching them virtue
but virtue is that which lies in the
middle that’s the balance
all of us are seeking for not going to
one extreme
or to another extreme but for looking
for a balance
of mind and body
and soul and connecting to the
environment
all of which has been rounded up in a
special area
in education we call ethics
nelson mandela who doesn’t know his name
he left this world over 90 spending 27
years in prison
fighting appetite a system
that was completely contradictory and
antithetical
to human life and human dignity
nelson mandela said you don’t need atom
bombs
or nuclear bombs you don’t need them to
destroy the world at all
you just need to undermine the quality
of education
and to ensure that you give people
knowledge inform them
without building the character and the
society is gone
what do we see everywhere brings me to a
man
a nigerian man an african man
an asian man a european man
an american man who had a friend
and his friend said hey man you know
what
not very healthy and i need a doctor and
i hear your son is a medical doctor i
want to go to him
and he told him hey ben don’t go to my
son
why can’t i go to your son he’s a
specialist no no no
i know how he got his certificate he
forged
it he thought he cannot heal he will
kill you
but this is the point when education is
transmitted to humanity without quality
without character without virtue
without that which makes education what
it must be
leading cs lewis famous
author and writer to say
that education without character creates
the best
devils because i know
i have it in my hands but then the
quality
of that which makes us rehumanize
and stand for life and stand for that
which makes
authentic living an authentic existence
that which it must be
is lacking education
ethics education we pass through schools
we go through families we go through
societies
and we come out with value orientations
that
distort the entire orientation
and changing the word w e
just on the w it means m
e me me
me nothing about we
nothing about the collective good
nothing about the common good
and so the crisis now starts look right
look left just because it is all about
me
talk politics talk ego
talk power talk greed
talk acquisition go to any of the
professionals
and all these paths often
through institutions of education
whether it’s on the elementary
or in the secondary or in the university
or in the post
but education is that which makes
character and one can think about a
great writer
called shakespeare the fault
is not in your stars the fault
is in you and there was
this great man who ran porsche
a car people like to drive and the other
one
who ran bmw a car people call
be my wife
bmw what do you will say ex-ceo
you know what i hire people with
character
not people with skills because the
skills you can have
and many of us have the skills but
character
is that which makes you to endure and
now the challenge
the challenge for each of us the
challenge for the institutions that
train people
for the governments that legislate for
the young people who pass through the
universities and places of centers of
learning
and for those who are professionals who
emerge from them
the challenge to ask myself
now that i know what is that upon which
my knowledge stands
if only we could ask that question do i
live for something am i willing to die
for something
what do i stand for is my life just
there
you know come see come sir
say lavvie sure you know
as it comes it goes i wonder end
because i have time to talk to my
audience and i have a message to sell
and this message is about the evidence
and the fact
that only those with character survive
and lead our world to the next level
and what we call character is
value-oriented
ethical thinking and living
because here was a man a story
big empire successful businessman
seven sons he was getting old
over 70 he was getting weak
i had to hand my property my big
business
to someone who can take it to the next
level so he told his sons i know all of
you
please just relax i won’t hand my
factory over to you
he called members of his staff can you
please come for a meeting all gathered
i’m looking for the next ceo
who will take over this company from me
and one of you will be that person who
who would have a thing one of you will
be that person
because one of you has the talent and
the ability but please
if you think so of course ambition
ceo big money they put out their names
and he gave each and every one of them a
seed
to plant what was in the seed
please plant the seed nurture the seed
grow this seed water it and sunshine it
come back in a year with the plant and i
would from one of you
make an appointment who will be my next
ceo
and my successor in the business so they
went home
one of them was jim jim came home told
his wife what had happened
every day he pours water looks after the
plant
his wife supports him but his plant was
not growing
and he kept on wondering what is it i’m
a failure
oh my god the water has come to an end
the plant was not growing
first month second month third month
sixth month a year was coming nearer the
plant was not growing
it was just in the planned port where he
had put it
and when he met his friends once in a
while they said oh he can’t believe
my plant is growing very well it’s
really you know get dying
anyway d-day they brought
each the plants to the stage
and the ceo came and said oh fantastic
god just wonderful color
big plants palm trees all colors they
had developed out of the seed they
received
all sorts of plants and there was gym
with
a pot no plant nothing in it
and the ceo goes to the audience
and picks jim and say this is my next
successor and ceo each and every one of
you received a seed
but what i gave you was a seed that i
boiled that that could never grow as a
plant
but what did you do you went and changed
it and put another seed to grow
and then you’ve come out now with fake
seeds
only him was courageous had character
to stand for a plant for a seed that was
not going to grow
he gave me back what i gave to him
that’s the next ceo
do we understand why character makes the
difference
why today in our world when we look at
all the various professions
engineering i.t think about the dark net
why we are doing all sorts of things in
positive
activity towards technology and its
improvement
some people are in the dark world
undermining all that
fraudsters of any means think about the
banking industry
where people have to deal with people’s
trust and money
and how some are undermining it or we
think about medicine
and you can go to any of the professions
including education
in universities where sexual harassment
becomes a way of life
where someone has to clone the thinking
and thought
of another’s writer another author and
just
change the name and put your own name
what we call research on ethical
behaviors
and one can count them on and on
it is a world that we ask about
how can this world be better and who is
going to make it better
the answer is clear there is no
sustainable future
without ethical and value-oriented
ingredients
here is the point this is our future and
that is the challenge
and each and every one of us can
take a step back and add value
value that can last this is the message
thank you
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