Changing Education to Change the World: A New Vision of Schooling

by Claudio Naranjo

Overview

In this sequel to Healing Civilization, Dr. Naranjo addresses the cultural and ecological crisis of the 21st Century. He reviews a number of theories and approaches to bettering society and advocates, in particular, the innovation of making the educational system more ethically and spiritually directed—more inner directed than devoted to sustaining current economic or cultural models for society. Naranjo examines the relationship between past historical eras and cultural progress and the growth and development of the individual child from infancy to maturity and old age. While sober in tone regarding these various global crises, the author maintains an optimistic view based on the continuing spiritual development of humanity. 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780895561602
Publisher:	Gateways Books & Tapes
Publication date:	11/30/2016
Series:	Consciousness Classics
Pages:	198
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Claudio Naranjo, M.D., is the author of Character & Neurosis, Ennea-Type Structures, and The One Quest. He has taught comparative religion at the California Institute of Asian Studies, human psychology at the University of California at Santa Cruz, and meditation at Nyingma Institute of Berkeley, California. He lives in Berkeley, California. 

Table of Contents

Author's Foreword v

Part 1 For a Salvific Education

The Promise of a Dying Civilization 1

Part 2 The Road to a Healthy Society

Getting to the Point 40

Diagnostics 41

Of Good Love and the Other Kind 48

The Promise 59

Three-brained Politics 62

Part 3 What Can We Do?

Sins of Society 75

Violence 76

Repression, Moralism, Police Menality, and Xenophobia 80

Authoritarianism 86

Conformity and the Status Quo 95

The Lie and the Illusion that Money Buys Happiness 98

Beyond the Holy Wars, the Search for Self-Realization 105

Reverence for Childhood 106

The Recovery of the "Maternal Instinct" and the Capacity for Empathetic and Solidary Bonds 112

And What of the Spirit? 117

Education as the Most Promising Route of Escape 117

Part 4 An Education for Personal and Social Evolution 123

Part 5 Educating the Whole Person to Build a Unified World 139

Part 6 A Curriculum for Self-knowledge, Interpersonal Re-education and Spiritual Cultivation 164

Publisher Contact Information 189