Building Peace

Education is one of the most important pillars of society only after Family which is the first and most important. Central Asia Institute is doing a very noble work along with Greg by planting the seed in the kids that will make their society a prosperous one. Third world countries have always had this problem but most try to implement many resources in infrastructure instead of doing it in the system which in my personal opinion is what makes successful Greg’s approach.

Greg saw the way to make the experience of the people, particularly the students, more important and significative by providing the essential materials and including them in the process of the construction: A simple building, which in turn was made by the own villagers and that leads to a fuller appreciation of the importance of this structure as a mean to achieve a higher level of education in the population. He also gave the kids the necessary tools to learn in class, very archaic tools but at the end in a more metaphorical manner tools for their future (and for school).

Most institution have it the other way around, they thing that in order for a better education it is necessary to provide all students or habitants with the latest in technological advancements leaving behind an important aspect for a students development, the “personal level of involvement” that makes a statement of commitment and link between the teacher and the student, an example of common efforts to reach for the same goal and that stays in the kids minds for life.

The Concept of Peace (Intro)

Peace by itself is an abstraction of a state not provable because of all the obvious interpretations that lie in the collection of experiences that persons have and contrast them with the apparent notion of what it is to be in harmony or rest. Nature by itself is never at peace, is a constant struggle to achieve a condition of equilibrium never attained but always changing hence creating a cycle of renovation an progress.

In a more human level peace could be a state of consciousness in which “I” am aware of the boundaries that limit “my” actions in order to not transgress the “others” boundaries, not only the so called comfort zone but the needs, desires and expectations, this in practice becomes unreal. A person and more so a society needs to transgress such limits for us to be able to interact and communicate in a system in which the collective efforts takes us to a more fulfilling life, the goal of human existence. 

Knowledge is in the only way in which we can reach a sort of state of peace, since it is only when a person understands his or her own limitations that he/she is able to comprehend that this philosophical, sometimes tangible and ephemeral construct “exists” for us to progress and try to be better beings.