Friday, October 16, 2015

Oleg Vyshniakov - Ukraine and Israel. “Human being and the environment”.

I would like to share an interesting innovation of the Israeli educational system: new school subject “Human being and the environment”.

This subject became a continuation of geography. New discipline is based not only on physical processes but also on interrelation between human being and the environment, as well as influence of human agency on the environment.

I think this subject is of the highest importance for modern children. Spending much of the time “in gadgets” they do not burden themselves with many issues. It is very important for kids to know since their childhood that the planet is your home and you need to love and care for it.

Today teeming human activity destroys and exhausts our planet. Position of each generation is “it will last my time” but such a position has already paid off. Quantity of natural disasters is growing year by year: hurricanes, earthquake, floods… Our planet tries to show us at all cost that it is time to stop to behave irreverently to the nature and the environment.

There is a joke: “One planet is complaining to another: I’ve got people. It is a disaster. I am itching. They drilling, sawing and boring something all the time. Another planet is answering: Just wait couple of millennia. I had got people too. They passed”.

In order not to “pass” it is necessary to instill in children environmental friendliness and respect for the nature. May be our children will be able to correct parents’ mistakes. At least I would like to believe it.

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