What do we mean when we say that nature is a closed system? To get a deeper understanding of this, we should look at a living example of one — our body.

Each of us strives to give his or her children the best tools for life. This is why we intuitively bring them up to be altruists. In fact, educating the younger generation has always been based on altruistic values.

Globally aware education does not happen by studying for knowledge’s sake, but by forming a suitable environment for our children – an environment that facilitates their development by giving them an understanding of themselves and the world, as well as the opportunity to realize thei

An educator ought to be a very special person, with a very broad outlook on life and an understanding of the processes that are happening in the world. Through a familiarity with the world and with nature, he should have a clear vision of the state he’d like to bring the child to at t

The primary goal of a 21st century school should be the preparation of the younger generation for life in the global world. A child should learn how to correctly interpret what happens to him day by day: why do people relate to him the way they do, and what is the right way to relate

As many biologists assert, we can learn a lot about the future of human society by observing nature. When life on earth began, bacteria, the first living organisms, struggled with each other for natural resources: life, food, and territory. Yet, in time, something wonderful happened—i

The ever-tightening connections among us all should have offered us a wealth of opportunities and facilitated infinite abundance, but somewhere along the way, something went wrong and tilted the world out of balance.

The vast difference between an egoistic way of living and an altruistic one can be understood through an example found in nature.

A glance at a typical school curriculum will reveal what we all know: schools try to provide children with tools for academic studies in college and universities, but they do not prepare them for life.

An initial outline for a project of building a virtual educational environment for children all over the world, which was presented before Irina Bokova, Director-General of UNESCO in a meeting held on February 2nd, 2011