Education is Our Most Powerful Tool for a Better World
"As a kid at school in the early 1960′s I loved nature. No surprise then that I was drawn to the study of ecology, looking at the relationships that living organisms have with their surrounding environment. I went on to read Botany at University. There I went into the beech woods and dug up the roots of the trees, with their sheaths of fungi around them, and took them back to the lab for study. I mashed them up, boiled them, analyzed the enzymes and chemicals, came to further understand the symbiotic relationship between the tree roots and the fungi; how each received benefit from the other. I wrote a thesis and obtained my doctorate. But something big was missing. Nature is not just about chemicals. It has a soul!.... "
You can read the full article at Conscious Connection... where it appeared today. Make no mistake: Our future depends on how we educate our kids.
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