difference…and the Compassion to maintain an imaginative empathy that reaches beyond one’s own immediate surroundings…” (Strand, 2006, p. 5) The steps we take may seem humble, as in mindful practice, but as Makiguchi tells us, it is in the creation of value and human fulfillment that can touch one life. That one life can touch many. In the case of a teacher whose aim is human fulfillment, the youth s/he teaches can lead the way towards a future of hope. This is what was bequeathed us: This earth the beloved left And, leaving, Left to us. No other world But this one: Willows and the river And the factory With its black smokestacks. No other shore, only this bank On which the living gather. No meaning but what we find here. No purpose but what we make. That, and the beloved's clear instructions: Turn me into song; sing me awake. - Gregory Orr References Dewey, J. The Child and the Curriculum. Martino Fine Books: NY. 2011/1902. Hansen, David. Ed. Ethical Visions of Education: Philosophies in Practice. Teachers College Press: NY. 2007 Strand, Michael. Education and Sustainable Society: Creative Understanding, “Soka Value Creation, and Their Effect on Social Change.” Soka Education: Leadership for Sustainable Development. Paper given at SOKA University of America. February, 2006.
difference…and the Compassion to maintain an imaginative empathy that reaches beyond one’s own immediate surroundings…” (Strand, 2006, p. 5) The steps we take may seem humble, as in mindful practice, but as Makiguchi tells us, it is in the creation of value and human fulfillment that can touch one life. That one life can touch many. In the case of a teacher whose aim is human fulfillment, the youth s/he teaches can lead the way towards a future of hope. This is what was bequeathed us: This earth the beloved left And, leaving, Left to us. No other world But this one: Willows and the river And the factory With its black smokestacks. No other shore, only this bank On which the living gather. No meaning but what we find here. No purpose but what we make. That, and the beloved's clear instructions: Turn me into song; sing me awake. - Gregory Orr References Dewey, J. The Child and the Curriculum. Martino Fine Books: NY. 2011/1902. Hansen, David. Ed. Ethical Visions of Education: Philosophies in Practice. Teachers College Press: NY. 2007 Strand, Michael. “Soka Education and Sustainable Society: Creative Understanding, Value Creation, and Their Effect on Social Change.” Soka Education: Leadership for Sustainable Development. Paper given at SOKA University of America. February, 2006.
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