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With these five types of minds, a person will be well equipped to deal with what is expected as well as what cannot be anticipated. Without these minds, a person will be at the mercy of forces that he or she can't understand. Our educational, political, managerial and spiritual systems should nurture these five kinds of minds for cultivating positive human potential. Disciplines, syntheses and creativity can be put to all kinds of ends if we do not cultivate a sense of respect and an ethical orientation. Hence, the five kinds of minds should be made to work synergistically.
Nurturing all the five minds is possible by building five capacities among the youth. These five capacities are inquiry, creativity, application of technology and entrepreneurial and moral leadership. By developing these, we will produce the Autonomous Learner, who is a self-directed, self-controlled, lifelong learner having the capacity to respect authority and, at the same time, question it in an appropriate manner.
These Autonomous Learners would work together as a self-organizing network and transform their society into a prosperous nation. The most important part of education is to instil among the students a can-do spirit.
RELIGION TRANSFORMING INTO SPIRITUALITY Religion has two components, theology and spirituality. Even though theology is unique to every religion, the spiritual component spreads the value to be inculcated by human beings for promoting a good life and the welfare of the society, even while pursuing a material life.
In the early 1960s, the founder of the Indian Space Research Programme, Prof. Vikram Sarabhai, and his team had located a technically ideal place, Thumba in Kerala, for space research. It was nearest to the magnetic equator, and therefore suited for ionospheric and electrojet research in upper atmosphere. However, thousands of fishing folks lived there. The place
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