Education With Hands, Hearts and Heads: Satish Kumar at TEDxWhitechapel
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Ecology and economy come from the same Greek word: oikos, meaning home. Ecology is the study of our home and economy is its management. In this mind-opening talk, internationally renowned spiritual thinker and educator Satish Kumar draws attention to the pervasive lack of a genuine understanding of nature in our education systems, which is contributing to the gross mismanagement of our planet. Kumar makes a compelling case for a more holistic approach to education, connecting our hands, hearts as well as heads. Satish Kumar is a world renowned speaker on ecological and spiritual issues. When he was only nine years old, Satish renounced the world and joined the wandering brotherhood of Jain monks. He left the monastic order and became a campaigner for land reform, working to turn Gandhi's vision of a peaceful world into reality, before undertaking an 8,000 mile peace pilgrimage, walking from India to America without any money, through deserts, mountains, storms and snow. Since 1973 he has been Editor at Resurgence magazine and his books include No Destination; You Are Therefore I Am; Spiritual Compass; Earth Pilgrim. Satish teaches, lectures and runs workshops on reverential ecology, holistic education and voluntary simplicity and is the founder of Schumacher College. He was awarded an Honorary Doctorates in Education (2000), Literature (2001) and in 2009 an Honorary Doctorate of Law from the University of Exeter. Satish has regularly contributed to Radio 4′s Thought for the Day and has appeared as a guest on Desert Island Discs. He featured in BBC2′s Natural World Series — Earth Pilgrim: A Spiritual Journey into the Landscape of Dartmoor. Satish is a Vice President at the RSPCA. In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.* (*Subject to certain rules and regulations)
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Cool stuff :)
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incredible in so many ways
such truth and beauty
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amazing living guru and visionary. long may he share these important and profound messages!
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SATURDAY 5 SEPTEMBER 2015, SATISH KUMAR IS SPEAKING AT ADVAYA INITIATIVE IN LONDON. tickets are on Eventbrite £22.
Take a look at the other speakers, musicians and yogis:
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he's got some good points but the constant shouting is off putting
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The video just makes me even more grateful that I went to Makarios school. Our anthem goes like: "Makarios is where I am trained for my glorious future life, where my head, my heart, and my hand are prepared for future life."
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Marvellous. We are all one.
But so many of us have lost our way, followed a shallow, selfish, destructive path, our society geared to enhancing the bank balances of greedy, financially wealthy but spiritually bankrupt people, while destroying the world, its beauty and many of its species. Our whole education system needs complete overhaul. In Britain, our children are fat and unhealthy, because capitalism depends on needless consumption so the rich can get richer. -
Very Inspiring & the need of the hour!!!!
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Guy is full of shit !!
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I am hooked on Satish's wisdom. Please read his book 'no destination' it will bring you tears & joy. You will not be disappointed. What a man xxx
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Right... Because sitting in a bean bag makes a student way more lazy than they would be if they were sitting? in a chair? "EssayThinker"
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Loved when you said that one should not look for jobs but create jobs !! Been ridiculed for decades, for not contributing to destruction, going against mainstreem, and trying to create smth that doesn't exist since it's going the opposite direction. The Pursuit of Freedom is about “getting real”, surpassing our limits to find back to our original values: an 'eternal currency' all of us could spend as the currency of Nobility of h’Art.. I love your Mahatma soul! Can't wait to see you again!
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i cried watching this. Im 19
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Do you have this video with subtitules? I would like to show this to my entire class in mexico thnk you
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why u got a problem wit da yuth in asia?
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Yes, don't look for others to give you what you want. If you want something, you go out and take it for yourself.
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What about to look ECOs=home to body ... Nomos = Knowledge logos = facts That take me to economics on investing on waste recycling are the future... people like mind fear to ... MONEY easy make by become a sell engineers ... EUTHANASIA I am standing up for better economics , if some one not produce from BODY plus KNOWLEDGE& FACTS ... EUTHANASIA ... what is this job of be a carer and do nothing but looking some one doing nothing ?
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Sir, I'm sure you also understand the flip-side of the problem of schools of economics not teaching about sustainable development of human and natural resources, which is that organizations teaching about sustainable natural systems do not show how to build sustainable marketplaces - marketplaces that value the sustainable development of human and natural resources. Please join us in doing both as one, at reconomy(dot)net - We the people of our beautiful Earth.... Best regards, Kevin
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Isn't it a tragedy that Satish isn't the Minister for Education, instead of that imbecile Michael Gove.....Still we live in hope. :)
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Brilliant
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