Innovations (from way back) // Charlene Sequeira // Directed Research // Summer 2012

INNOVATIONS(from way back)

Innovations (from way back) // Charlene Sequeira // Directed Research // Summer 2012

EDUCATION(from way back)

THE CONCEPT: Society deliberately transmits its accumulated knowledge, skills, customs and values from one generation to another.

BEGINNINGS: Adults trained the young (verbally & imitation)Development of written language & Storty Telling

Innovations (from way back) // Charlene Sequeira // Directed Research // Summer 2012

EDUCATION(from way back)

IN INDIA:The Nalanda University - oldest university-system of education.

Buddhist center of learning in Bihar, India, from the fifth or sixth century CE to 1197 CE.

“one of the first great universities in recorded history”.

Innovations (from way back) // Charlene Sequeira // Directed Research // Summer 2012

HINDU MYTHOLOGY(from way back)

OVERVIEW: 2 great Hindu Epics, the Ramayana and the Mahabharata

2 specific incarnations of Vishnu (Rama and Krishna).

Serve as both religious scriptures and a rich source of philosophy and morality for a Hindu.

Contain short stories and moral situations based on Hindu laws and codes of righteousness.

Innovations (from way back) // Charlene Sequeira // Directed Research // Summer 2012

HINDU MYTHOLOGY(from way back)

DEITIES:Trimurti: Brahma (the creator),Vishnu (the sustainer) Shiva (the destroyer)

Saraswati the goddess of learning,

Innovations (from way back) // Charlene Sequeira // Directed Research // Summer 2012

SUSTAINABILITY(from not so way back)

MAHATMA GANDHI: 2 Oct. 1869 – 30 Jan.1948.

Father of Our Nation (India)

Advocate of vegetarianism, nature cure, recycling, non-violence and ciritical of industrialism.

“Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s need, but not every man’s greed”

Innovations (from way back) // Charlene Sequeira // Directed Research // Summer 2012

SUSTAINABILITY(from not so way back)

DEEP ECOLOGY:At the Third World Futures conference in Bucharest (1972):Norwegian philosopher Arne Naess explained the difference between shallow and deep ecology.

Deep Ecology is the radical idea that all life has the right to exist, that no one species is more important than another.

Innovations (from way back) // Charlene Sequeira // Directed Research // Summer 2012

SUSTAINABILITY(from not so way back)

“Life is fundamentally one. ... the deep ecology movement is the ecology movement which questions deeper... the adjective ‘deep’ stresses that we ask why and how, where others do not.” - Arne Næss