How does a human being fit into the System?
So how does man fit in to the system that is Nature? What is his role in that system? How do we educate for that role? These are all deeply philosophical questions and are difficult to address without some form of postulation. I begin by seeing education as being concerned with the whole being . Whatever the whole being is, it is something we are born with, nature gave it to us so if we know what the whole being is, then educating that whole being has to be part of nature. So what is this whole being? I intend to address 3 aspects of humanity - mind, energy and body, and initially not address the question of r eligion or spirituality (as I develop consideration of the mind that will become clearer). Let us begin first by addressing the question of the body . In recent times in the West we have begun to see deterioration in the condition of the human body. Whilst science has made huge advances in medicine the human body has become subject to more and more di...