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A new article in Cadmus describes our perspective of Peaceful Futures and suggests that universal peace is a critical dimension of human security in the 21st century.

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Pro-life pro-future take on the situation in Ukraine Thank you @NJHagens for a critical and timely outcry.

Please join us today to discuss how the indigenous ways can inform the future of global education for thriving futures.

11. Education as we know is a direct product of the industrial society: teaching workers & king's subjects at the age 7-22 to play by the rule. Now we live longer (hopefully until 110s), and we need focus on skills for "good life" not just good skills.

10. We are in the weird situation when we can rethink civilization for global flourishing, love and joy for everyone - but instead are forced to believe in the system that reproduces inequality and suffering. To move there we need to rethink "what is success".

9. We need to learn fundamental literacies and technologies, but we also need to learn:. - aesthetics/beauty. - political structures of our society. - science - how scientific knowledge is produced. - history - how stories are being told. - ethics - principles behind our actions.

8. We thrive in the zone of learning, and all our planet from fungi to animals is the learning place. How come the existing school model is the opposite of learning for thriving? @andersenske.

7. PISA testing played very negative role in recent years in Nordic countries in terms of Nordic Bildung model - focusing on grades instead of collective learning, emotional & relational intelligence etc.

6. Many regions are in similar situation today (large illiterate & poor population, low resources) and they can learn from Nordic Bildung approach - e.g. regions in Africa. The model is easily transferable.

5. At least 15% of the rural population including women went into "folk colleges" and it was a gamechanger. Nordic countries became some of the most educated and literate. Back then the region was one of the poorest and low-tech, and the transformation was very impressive.

4. Students gained knowledge, learned to be confident, and could act as a backbone of their community. They led the cooperative movement and transformed the country into one of the most prosperous in the world. The model was taken on by Sweden, Norway, Finland. .

3. Nordic Bildung in Denmark was "folk college" that focused on young peasant population. Its principles: .a. Students needed to be "at home" not to be intimidated. b. Education was conducted by stories that could engage - starting with history, then economics, agriculture etc.

2. The ideal of 19th century German philosophers is to liberate people from "rule of emotions" by learning to be rational, aesthetics-oriented, and team players. This view of LLL responded to the failure of French revolution where people couldn't use their freedom properly.

1. Bildung (image building) is the German word for "education", and it essentially means "building the image of" - originally, in the image of God, and later in the image of "ideal man" (in the ideals of Enlightenment Age - "natural person", "rational person" etc.).

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Saudi Arabia designs a new "city within the city". A very interesting concept, but I also sense a lot of controversy hidden in it from the sustainability point of view

Highly inspirational project by Anna Bacchia and @ErvinLaszlo - "One Earth Choir", the largest choir on Earth, creativity of Earth communities united (the live streaming has just ended, but you can watch the recording).

Reading Martin Luther King's Nobel prize speech, his words are alive today ever than before. Yet I'm puzzled: back in 1964 he praised "the largest liberation in history", yet today we stand in the midst of the greatest new oppressions. What went wrong?.

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