It's not my quote. Gandhi put simple words around what many of us have tried with complicated and elaborate words to describe; education with ethics, moral learning etc etc.
In the past year, I have decided to go on a journey to discover (first) and then follow my Element. It was not a discovery really, cause I somehow knew it was always there. After a few months of reflection, challenging discussions with friends, family and myself, I am confident and happy that I have found my purpose, which is nothing else than Education, as a mean to develop young people.
Enough with my personal boring story though. The question is more important and relevant. How do we create an Education with character? How do we teach ethics? Currently, it's not the knowledge that is missing to our leaders (politicians, corporates, teachers), but ethical and responsible leadership. How do we teach that in our schools and Universities, to ensure that as people learn math, foreign language and Corporate Finance, they also learn how to apply their knowledge in an ethical and responsible way? Why Religion related courses are the only ones that usually talk about ethics? And why is developing knowledgeable, ethical and responsible leaders not measured as a success of an educational institution? We rather choose to count success by seeing in which firm someone was hired, how much salary he/she negotiated and which ranks he/she obtained?
And it's not just ethics that are missing from our education. The current generation and the next will need to answer dilemmas that have to do with intervention to the DNA of human's and other species, usage of nuclear and chemical weapons etc etc. Do we prepare people to make such decisions for their and their children's benefit?
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