ANCIENT WISDOM: MODERN TRUTH

People fed on the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil soon become convinced that they alone know what is good and evil. The results are bitter conflicts. No culture is immune. Even science has been distorted and mathematics poisoned.

Mathematics has a real moral basis. Taught badly it produces unthinking obedience to orders: a source of many conflicts. But it can teach generosity, responsibility, and self-reliance. Learning maths like this is easy once children learn to work alone with their textbook and also with each other. Then literacy and numeracy are naturally combined, and every child has an expert guide constantly at hand. This leap to independence can begin in elementary school. Unexpected genius - and friendships - can flower.

The RA-AL! programme, part of the Socrates Method for teachers, gives children a simple understanding of how their minds work and how learning and understanding are strengthened and improved through discussion with others, and through listening to others with patience and respect. They learn to work less selfishly, more tolerantly and generously. Fear of the different and unusual is reduced and peace is allowed to grow.

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