Schools and peace - r they related

"Today's students are tomorrow's leaders" , so it is best to inculcate the need for peace in schools. This is a welcome change, which will make the world a better place to live. In those tender ages, the ability to absorb concepts is very high, so it is the right age to start building a new society.

At the tender ages, they find it difficult to distinguish right from wrong. So it is the responsiblity of the schools to impart those moral convictions in early childhood. Once these students are imparted with the positive ideals, they unconsciously tend to prefer peace rather than war. Because whatever is learnt at an early age has an everlasting impact on their life. So we must be careful in what we impart to those kids.

Let us take India for example, where people tend to find unity in diversity. How did this happen? The current generation never even thinks about communal or cultural clashes? It was not a overnight success? It was not a overnight success? Why? Because, a conscious decision was taken to impart unity among diversity to the students of yesterday. The end result, we harldy find cultural clashes and communal riots. (Leave alone the Gujarat clashes, it seems to be politically motivated)

Let us see the impact on a child, which grows in a war zone. He sees the bloodshed and the atrocities during the wartime. What will be the impact on the child? Obviously the child starts to think that it is OK! to kill someone, and it is fair to kill someone to gain control. The child starts to develop with these moral convictions, after a decade the child could be someone like "Bin Laden", fighting for a fictious cause.

As you can see the impact of early adoption of morals has a everlasting mark. Though this approach of teaching moral convictions about peace is excellent, it takes over a decade. It really cannot not give you an immediate solution. We need to have a portfolio of solutions to tame the atrocious beasts which disrupt "peace" in this world.