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vacuum. In the modern age, the whole world is the arena for it to operate interactively. The all enveloping environment of the world arena consists of nature and nature's myriad components and forces education has to reckon with. It also consists of civilisational assets of a community built by the mankind over millennia. They include habitats, villages, towns, cities, transportation, communication channels, corporations, industries, agriculture and hundreds of mammoth systems and subsystems of life. Thus, the modern environment is a . global reality on a massive scale.
Education must get synergised with the omnipresent environment as the present day world has contracted into a global village. This metamorphosis has unleashed new dynamics of human relations, having on one hand a potential to explode and perish by just one error, say of nuclear misdemeanor.. and on the other hand an equally possible prospect of undreamt prosperity and happiness of all members of the human race. Therefore, education of man must help rule out the former, i.e. the catastrophe, and promote the latter i.e. the welfare of all. Let's, therefore, ensure the intrasynergy of forces of education by taking steps like the following ones. 1. Providing educational inputs to the younger generation in
particular, and the community in general, to preserve, promote and sustain in sound health the ecological balance in nature which is being seriously threatened of late by climate change. Inculcating in students sound traits of world citizenship and comradeship by nurturing in them generously values of friendship, brotherhood, equality, compassion, empathy and a warm humanitarian approach to life and its problems. The renowned American poet, Walt Whitman, has forcefully advocated such cosmopolitan world view in the following illustrious lines worth ruminating over in the contemporary climate of selfish parochialism of all sorts :
Come, let's make the world indissoluble, Let's make the most splendid race, The sun has ever shone upon. Let's make divine, magnetic land, With the love of comrades,
With the lifelong love of comrades. 3. Nurturing those values - moral, political, cultural, aesthetic, and
pragmatic - that lead a person to respect all forms of life and a
