‘To
the world that modern science fostered and shaped now appears to have exhausted
its potential. It is increasingly clear
that, strangely, the relationship is missing something. It fails to connect with the most intrinsic
nature of reality, and with natural human experience. It is now more of a source of disintegration
and doubt that the source of integration and meaning. It produces what amounts to a state of
schizophrenia. Man as observer is
becoming alienated from himself as a being.
Classical modern science described only the surface of things, a single
dimensional of reality. And the more
dogmatically science treated it as the only guy mention, as the very essence of
reality, the more misleading it became.
Today for instance we may know immeasurably more about the universe than
our ancestors did, and yet, it increasingly seems that they knew something more
essential about it than we do, something that escapes us. The same is true of nature and ourselves. The more thoroughly all our organs and their
functions, their internal structure and the biochemical reactions that take
place within them are described, the more we seem to fail to grasp the spirit,
purpose and meaning of the system that they create together and that we
experience as their unique self’. Vaclav
Havel the first President of the Czech Republic.
Reductionist
thinking reduces us to a closed mind in any area of endeavour remember the mind
is like a parachute it works best when it is open. This seems to be lost on the
education system not just here but in most countries; what we need now is
diversity and flexibility of thinking.
Vic
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