Preparing the Free Human Being:
A letter to Dr. Torrez Bodet, UNESCO General Director

The new education

Investigating the second approach, the new education, we will try first to shed some light on our present world perceptions in order to help delineate the desired world institution.

The present education system is greatly misleading as an approach to knowledge judging by its current understanding of how life evolves from beginning to end. We now live in a mechanical age, where the machine mingles with all aspects of life to the extent that people have learned to respect mechanical rules and accommodate the machine in arts and literature. Not only that, but the machine is now valued for its inspirational specificity, strength, as well as its rhythmic and balanced sounds. The educational systems is not an exception; a person learns and exercises hard to create himself as a human machine that is very precise, efficient, and highly productive. Thus, it is natural that education became mostly professional in its methods.

The new education system has to be projected from the new understanding of the goal of social life: preparing a free human being, who lives in an international community. Who is the free human being? He is the one who has liberated his mind and his heart from remedies of fear and as such has ignited the powers inhibited in his buildup and therefore has found the pleasure of life by expanding the senses of thinking and feeling. Such new education style produces the free human being through liberating natural talents from myth and superstitions inherited from ancient eras.

There is an element inherited in the human nature since primitive life in the darkness of this planet in the remote past; it dominates the human hearts, sticks with it, unwilling to depart. The area, where fear resides, is restricted and tabooed, surrounded by a rigid barrier that is no less firm than that inflexible blind shutter that Russia put between itself and the world. That fear accompanied life since its early beginning, along its path, and induced its advancement and promotion. At the same time, fear has obstructed it from higher perfection, which is the humans’ destined end. Humanity will not obtain that destined perfection before being liberated completely from fear. Fear is the start of all evil acts; it is the reason for savage killing and senseless violence. It is also the cause for dishonor and cheating poor people. The origin for fear is that false and distorted image that is composed in the minds of a person due to the reckless cruelty he experienced dealing with the raw powers in his natural habitat.