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The Power of Women, Dalai Lama

All quotes are approximate excerpts of the Dalai Lama’s speech.

“So now, we are in the 21st century. Modern education is basically oriented to material values. Materialistic oriented education system. Highly developed country education is very good, but a lot of problems, especially with children. Most cases of students of suicide among the young increasing. What is wrong?”

My questions:
What would an education system look like that does not focus purely on materialistic values? What would women suggest as another portion of the education system to promote warmheartedness and a sense of responsibility?

“NYC or Los Angeles. Millions of people live together but many of them feel lonely. The lack of human affection, personally and in the family. Lack of affection—no genuine cooperation, too much competition. Suspicion, distress…loneliness. The existing modern education system is only concerned about brain development, not warmness, sense of responsibility.”

a discussion of grading system of public schools I was involved with in 2005

to distill this conversation:

“We really need effort for the promotion of warm-heartedness. Biologically, females have the most potential according to some scientific experiments. With females the personal response is much stronger.”

“Look at other animals including birds. The mother takes the fullest responsibility for caring for the children. “

“The real seed of compassion came from the Lama’s mother. Infinite altruistic sort of mind. Those people who really receive maximum affection or love..those people have deep insight and are much happier. There are very smart people, but some are lacking love’s compassion and affection. Deep inside, they have some sense of insecurity. In order to build a happy generation, the mother has an immensely important role.”

My questions:
What would an education system look like that does not focus purely on materialistic values? What would women suggest as another portion of the education system to promote warmheartedness and a sense of responsibility?