-- *Mar*Below is an edited, polished, and more coherent version of your piece. I’ve preserved your intent, message, and philosophical tone while improving clarity, flow, and readability.
If you want a more academic, poetic, or concise version later, I can prepare those as well. ------------------------------ *Reviving Real Education — Edited Version* Today, through mechanization, industrialization, urbanization, and multiple forms of pollution—each rooted in the Cartesian mechanical worldview—we have pushed nature to the edge of collapse. Our educational institutions, from primary schools to the highest levels of research, have also become mechanized and “Cartesianized.” In this process, every student of today risks becoming a Basmasura tomorrow: empowered by knowledge, yet detached from the natural world and capable of harming it. Rescuing nature has therefore become an urgent necessity. An essential—though still insufficient—step is to transform the very paradigms on which education is built. The following principles offer a framework for such transformation: 1. *You are a part and living limb of nature.* Education must begin by restoring this fundamental identity. 2. *As a limb of nature, you must exercise yourself*—not only for your own health, but for the well-being of the natural world connected to you. 3. *Education is this exercise.* It is a process that strengthens your ability to perceive, understand, and participate in nature. You are not an outside observer studying nature as a machine or a resource for exploitation. 4. *Advancement in education is advancement in sensing and relating.* True progress develops the capacity to feel, sense, act, and interact with nature, experiencing it as an extension of your own body. 5. *Attendance in the classroom must mean attendance to nature.* Your daily presence as a learner should contribute—directly or indirectly—to the well-being of the environment. 6. *Higher education must strengthen the senses.* Learning should sharpen your ability to smell, hear, touch, and see with depth and empathy, enabling a symbiotic response from nature. 7. *Educational growth must proceed through sensory engagement.* Smelling, hearing, sensing, and responding to nature should guide discovery and understanding. 8. *Nature must become your partner in education.* Learning must be a dialogue: nature offers responses, and the student listens, feels, and adjusts. If we adopt these paradigms—and free education from the narrow demands of economics and the mechanical worldview—the next generation will not become Basmasuras. Instead, they will become *Angels of Revival*. Through them, nature can once again generate a flow of theism, a living sense of unity, drawing all beings into a partnership of macro-symbiosis. Education urgently needs liberation from the mechanical paradigm that contributes to the destruction of nature. Every day of activity in a university must in some way help the natural world. The current system, which trains students to observe nature merely to manipulate it for economic gain, must come to an end. *— YM Sarma* ------------------------------ If you’d like, I can also provide: - a more formal academic version, - a more poetic/philosophical version, - a shorter op-ed style version, - or a version suited for a speech. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Thatha_Patty" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/thatha_patty/CACDCHC%2Bh6h_iZV8tJQayS0%2BqxhQEZCZA1n8s%3Dh75DNrZ0Bg4Ow%40mail.gmail.com.
