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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank

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To: epicure who wrote (14741)5/28/2001 7:07:01 PM
From: 2MAR$  Read Replies (1) of 82486
 
from Huxely's Island ...on education :
island.org
primenet.com



How early do you start your science teaching?"

"We start it at the same time we start multiplication and division. First lessons
in ecology."

"Ecology? Isn't that a bit complicated?"

"That's precisely the reason why we begin with it. Never give children a chance of imagining that anything exists in isolation. Make it plain from the very first that all living is relationship. Show them relationships in the woods, in the fields, in the ponds and streams, in the village and the country around it. Rub it in."

"And let me add," said the Principal, "that we always teach the science of relationship in conjunction with the ethics of relationship. Balance, give and take, no excesses---it's the rule of nature and, translated out
of fact into morality, which ought
to be the rule among people. [...]"


(so they learn at very young ages
no man is an Island ...morality born out
of observing the give and take of life,
balance and restraint and seeing themselves
part of a greater whole .)

* Huxely's thoughts are still as clear today
as when i first read him far back years ago.

;-)
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