The hidden connections

Abstract

Education consists in making students perceive that they are constituted by, and part of, multiple social, environmental and cosmic systems and subsystems. This education entails a development that is at the same time cognitive, ethical, emotive and spiritual. This vision of education is opposed to several forms of reductionism that obscure important connections between phenomena and between these and the observer. In ethical terms, this learning consists in the recognition and production of positive sum games. Spiritually, it consists of a feeling of togetherness with totality, which produces amazement, gratitude and respect towards the miracle of existence.