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If something is abundantly so clear, it is extremely obvious and self-evident

Discover what you love, what you value

Then,for sure, you will look after it.

‘Let the beauty we love be what we do.’- Rumi

Be in love with life and the living and the world will be a better place.- Kamran Mofid

The time is now to challenge the accepted wisdom that has denied and degraded 

the people and the environment

Neoliberalism destroys human potential and devastates everything that is good and valuable

Photo: Kamran Mofid, a flower of love from our garden, Coventry, July 2021

To save the world I urge you to move from amor fati, 'embracing our fate', to amor mundi, ‘love of the world’.

Walking in Love for our Children’s Sake

Photo:Medium

Surely, as we love our children, then, we must also love the world. We must act now, so that  we may maintain a prosperous economy and a cohesive and just society that will not leave an enormous burden and costs on future generations, our children and grandchildren. This is our moral and spiritual calling 

Lest We Forget: The key that will unlock the door to amor mundi is EDUCATION. But, of course, Not any EDUCATION!

'Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.' ― Aristotle

Education is the point at which we decide whether we love the world enough to assume responsibility for it and by the same token save it from that ruin which, except for renewal, except for the coming of the new and young, would be inevitable. And education, too, is where we decide whether we love our children enough not to expel them from our world and leave them to their own devices, nor to strike from their hands their chance of undertaking something new, something unforeseen by us, but to prepare them in advance for the task of renewing a common world.’Hannah Arendt, The Crisis in Education

‘From the Latin educare, to educate means to lead into or draw out. Education is the activity of leading a child into the world, of drawing her into the world. Parents educate their children by drawing them out of their private selves and into the world of the family, their community, and their society.

‘Schools educate, in turn, by drawing students out of the confines of their families and into the wider political and social world. Education is always an entry into an old world. And yet, it is always a new experience with infinite possibilities for every new initiate.’- Education, Hannah Arendt tells us in the quotation above, is about the love for the world…’-The Crisis in Education 

The Love of the World

This is How Education Can Save The World: A Perspective from the GCGI

Lest We Forget: We are called to be guardian angels of the earth and "sons and daughters of the rainbow." The challenge is to see ourselves "as alongside things, as members of a larger planetary and cosmic community."- Leonardo Boff, Cry of the Earth, Cry of the Poor

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Education to Save the World

'Some say that my teaching is nonsense.

Others call it lofty but impractical.

But to those who have looked inside themselves,

this nonsense makes perfect sense.

And to those who put it into practice,

this loftiness has roots that go deep.

I have just three things to teach:

simplicity, patience, compassion.

These three are your greatest treasures.

Simple in actions and in thoughts,

you return to the source of being.

Patient with both friends and enemies,

you accord with the way things are.

Compassionate toward yourself,

you reconcile all beings in the world'.- Lao Tzu

Neoliberalism destroys human potential and devastates values-led education

The World brought down to its knees: The Fallacy of Friedrich Hayek, Milton Friedman and their disciples

The Destruction of our World and the lies of Milton Friedman

Wisdom and the Well-Rounded Life: What Is a University?

The Journey to Sophia: Education for Wisdom

The Value of Values: Why Values Matter

Nature and Me': Educating the Heart and the Soul of Children to Build a Better World

Eruption of Corruption in British Education:Debunking the Moral and Spiritual Bankruptcy of Values-free Education

Why should we all become mother nature and sacred earth guardians

Poetry is the Education that Nourishes the Heart and Nurtures the Soul

Rethinking Education at the Time of Coronavirus Crisis: The Time is Now to Explore the Benefits of Nature-Based Education in Our Teaching Models

A New Decade and a New Vision for Education: Seizing the Moment, Realizing the Value of Values-led Civics Education

The Age Of Perpetual Crisis: What are we to do in a world seemingly spinning out of our control?

On the 250th Birthday of William Wordsworth Let Nature be our Wisest Teacher

Have We lost the Art of Knowing What it Means to Be Human?

Detaching Nature from Economics is ‘Burning the Library of Life’

What might an Economy for the Common Good look like?

 Why Happiness Should be Taught at Our Universities

The Love of the World: Reconnecting with Nature

Caring for the World, Mother Nature and the Sacred Earth: A Perspective from the GCGI

Congratulations Humans, You have finally done it: You have set the world on fire

Congratulations Humans, You have finally done it: You have set the oceans on fire

Congratulations Humans, You have finally done it: From inside out You are now fully Plasticised!

Congratulations Humans, You have finally done it: You have now suffocated the world!

‘Nature and Me’: Realigning and Reconnecting with Mother Nature’s Wisdom- A Five Part Guide

‘Nature and Me’: ‘Nature as a Cure for the Sickness of Modern Times’

‘Nature and Me’: ‘200 words to protect the planet’

'Nature and Me': Unlocking a New Vision for a Better World

Nature and Me': Educating the Heart and the Soul of Children to Build a Better World

World in Chaos: The Healing Power of Gardens

To Heal the World and People We Need to Save the Commons from Plunder

In this troubled world let the beauty of nature and simple life be our greatest teachers

Nature the Best Teacher: Re-Connecting the World’s Children with Nature

Beauty Will Save the World

In Search of Well-being, Joy and Happiness: ‘Nature and ‘Forest Bathing’ is the Path

Are you physically and emotionally drained? I know of a good solution!

Detaching Nature from Economics is ‘Burning the Library of Life’

Rethinking Education at the Time of Coronavirus Crisis: The Time is Now to Explore the Benefits of Nature-Based Education in Our Teaching Models

The healing power of ‘Dawn’ at this time of coronavirus crisis

An open letter to all my fellow academic colleagues and all those involved and concerned with the world of education

On the 250th Birthday of William Wordsworth Let Nature be our Wisest Teacher

Crisis after Crisis: Ten Steps to Save the World

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And now for your enjoyment and also to focus our minds on what is valuable, rewarding and life-enhancing,

please see this timeless video: “What a Wonderful World” with David Attenborough

'I see trees of green........ red roses too

I see em bloom..... for me and for you

And I think to myself.... What a wonderful world…'

See the Video: What A Wonderful World With David Attenborough