Education With Hands, Hearts and Heads: Satish Kumar at TEDxWhitechapel

Ecology and economy come from the same Greek word: oikos, meaning home. Ecology is the study of our home and economy is its management. In this mind-opening talk, internationally renowned spiritual thinker and educator Satish Kumar draws attention to the pervasive lack of a genuine understanding of nature in our education systems, which is contributing to the gross mismanagement of our planet. Kumar makes a compelling case for a more holistic approach to education, connecting our hands, hearts as well as heads.

Satish Kumar is a world renowned speaker on ecological and spiritual issues. When he was only nine years old, Satish renounced the world and joined the wandering brotherhood of Jain monks. He left the monastic order and became a campaigner for land reform, working to turn Gandhi's vision of a peaceful world into reality, before undertaking an 8,000 mile peace pilgrimage, walking from India to America without any money, through deserts, mountains, storms and snow. Since 1973 he has been Editor at Resurgence magazine and his books include No Destination; You Are Therefore I Am; Spiritual Compass; Earth Pilgrim. Satish teaches, lectures and runs workshops on reverential ecology, holistic education and voluntary simplicity and is the founder of Schumacher College. He was awarded an Honorary Doctorates in Education (2000), Literature (2001) and in 2009 an Honorary Doctorate of Law from the University of Exeter. Satish has regularly contributed to Radio 4′s Thought for the Day and has appeared as a guest on Desert Island Discs. He featured in BBC2′s Natural World Series — Earth Pilgrim: A Spiritual Journey into the Landscape of Dartmoor. Satish is a Vice President at the RSPCA.

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[dominicmurphy]

I am hooked on Satish's wisdom. Please read his book 'no destination' it will bring you tears & joy. You will not be disappointed. What a man xxx

[janinericketts]

Loved when you said that one should not look for jobs but create jobs !! Been ridiculed for decades, for not contributing to destruction, going against mainstreem, and trying to create smth that doesn't exist since it's going the opposite direction. The Pursuit of Freedom is about “getting real”, surpassing our limits to find back to our original values: an 'eternal currency' all of us could spend as the currency of Nobility of h’Art..
I love your Mahatma soul! Can't wait to see you again!

[ganeshgiri]

This video is here from 2013 and only about 60 thousand has seen it. Hope it gets more audiance gradually. Thank you Sir for wonderful inpiring speech.

[tuncalikutukcuoglu]

Wonderful speech. How can you understand economics without understanding the primary producer nature (ecology)? As a PhD student in economics, I totally agree.

[ravindersangha]

This is the key to valuable, happy, enjoyable, intelligent and an easy life

[lo]

Thanks Satish for being around to inspire and awake us to the real world.

[suzaneringoringo]

The video just makes me even more grateful that I went to Makarios school. Our anthem goes like: "Makarios is where I am trained for my glorious future life, where my head, my heart, and my hand are prepared for future life."

[kyanhowland]

incredible in so many ways
such truth and beauty
I love his voice, so full of life and joy!!!

[katycooks]

amazing living guru and visionary. long may he share these important and profound messages!

[alicereid]

So inspirational 🥰😍🥰 I've just been reading his book called soil, soul, society (Satish Kumar) I'd recommend it to anyone who enjoyed this Ted Talk 💖

[rakeshchauhan-opqw]

I like Satish words. He knows the school system is busted and at the same time, we need to go back to our "roots".

Vipassana is a must for anyone

[tonyanthony]

Amazing human being. I wish I had learned at his school.

[krzystofsibilla]

As long we want more we will never get it.Demand can only create more of the same..Yes love the Earth and that will manifest.

[ReidoDesign]

Yes, don't look for others to give you what you want. If you want something, you go out and take it for yourself.

[stephensheen]

Hands. Heart and Head was first coined by the great educator, rudolf Steiner, where they garden, cook and learn to knit at age 6!! such a shame he is never mentioned by people who know full well about Waldorf Education!!

[ThePermacultureStudent]

<3 Permaculture is my mission too :)

[minalchheda]

Very Inspiring & the need of the hour!!!!

[christabelreed]

SATURDAY 5 SEPTEMBER 2015, SATISH KUMAR IS SPEAKING AT ADVAYA INITIATIVE IN LONDON. tickets are on Eventbrite £22.
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[Monica]

What about to look ECOs=home to body ...
Nomos = Knowledge
logos = facts
That take me to economics on investing on waste recycling are the future... people like mind fear to ... MONEY easy make by become a sell engineers ... EUTHANASIA I am standing up for better economics, if some one not produce from BODY plus KNOWLEDGE& FACTS ... EUTHANASIA ... what is this job of be a carer and do nothing but looking some one doing nothing ?

[jedfgross]

Genesis 1:1-27 KJV
[1] In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. [2] And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. [3] And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. [4] And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness. [5] And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day. [6] And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. [7] And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so. [8] And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day. [9] And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so. [10] And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good. [11] And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so. [12] And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good. [13] And the evening and the morning were the third day. [14] And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years: [15] And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so. [16] And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also. [17] And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth, [18] And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good. [19] And the evening and the morning were the fourth day. [20] And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven. [21] And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good. [22] And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth. [23] And the evening and the morning were the fifth day. [24] And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so. [25] And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good. [26] And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. [27] So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.