should people be educated to understand what peace is, only we seem to know what war and fighting mean.?

Answer 1

Obviously, few people understand how to achieve peace in there everyday lives. I think it is a good idea but the class would be the school or teacher or author's perception of how peace is achieved. There is no one answer to this. Our president has an idea of how to achieve peace and my grandmother has another and you have another. Who is right?

Answer 2

Problem is, peace is boring! It's difficult to imagine a couple of grade school kids playing with Peacenik Joe dolls whose armaments consist of tie dyes, ponytails and an acoustic guitar.

Kid #1: "Dude. Like let's sit here among the dandelions and sing some really cool protest songs."

Kid #2: "Oh yeah, this is righteous. What a gas!

Ok, couldn't resist. Honestly, I'm not sure "education about peace" is the answer. "Peace" is too often associated with a single narrow, often impractical, political point of view.

Xan Shui,
Philosophic Philanthropist, Honest Man

Answer 3

If you know war, then you must know what peace is. Peace is the antithesis of war. It is its opposite. Its impossible to know what war is and claim you dont know what peace is. Its like claiming you know what is left, but dont know what is right. Or knowing what beauty is and yet cant understand what ugliness is.

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War is unavoidable maybe. We are always at war because our needs and wants coincides with the needs and wants of others and no one is going to give up and compromise. Our needs and wants may vary...it may involve land and material possessions..it may also involve complex issues like pride, religious beliefs, zealousness towards certain principles and values...its a complex world out there and we can never fathom the depths of the minds and hearts of all human beings.

Maybe war is like economics wherein the basic foundation is the realization that resources are finite. Because of this, we have two options: fight over it or allocate resources in a humane, fair and equitable manner. But humans find difficulty in being humane, fair and equitable. Or perhaps our definitions of these words differ and no one is willing to accept another one's version of it. So we still end up fighting.

Let us hope that someday, we will all realize that everybody loses in a war. And that our redemption as human beings, as homo sapiens, the highest species of the planet, is to embrace peace as a way of life.

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Answer 4

it is ignorance we all know what peace is, its just that living in a world corrputed by 'war and fighting' we are left to only dream of such an idealic world. You could educate as many people as you wanted but the question would be how many of those people would be willing to put their knowledge into action? The majority of people believe you need power and authority to have a voice.

Answer 5

Wouldn't it be great! We could teach kids about law, ecomnomics, fairness and civilization - also about the dangers of corruption and supremacism, propaganda and militarization. The problem is, who would want to join the army?
There is no should. There is no good. There is only big and small, and what big says, goes. Peace is an enclave of culture inside forcibly protected boundaries, so we have the violent efforts of armies to thank for these islands of peace - we who live inside them. Outside the city, morals take on very diferrent meanings. Peace and happiness to all.

Answer 6

All the agents of Nations and Religions preach God and Peace. But every dawn has its tragic news to reach us. Still we all respect these false leaders, saints and scholars.

When we will have peace?
The day we get courage to spat at the face of these leaders and religious scholars. The religions will be abolished and there has to begin the days of humanity.

Answer 7

People should be educated in all things, so that one knows diversity. Peace is not something that is taught it is something that has to be worked towards and striven for. Fighting seems to be human nature and seems to come naturally for us, peace is something that we must work hard to attain.

Answer 8

We r educated about peace & how to maintain it .Its only that goes bumper to many

Answer 9

Big problem, any teacher talking about peace is automatically a lefty, possibly homosexual and definitely suspect.

Answer 10

we r using our education in negative & distructive way. when our edcation becomes positive & construcive , we will be able to understand love. peace, friendship, affection in true sense( to explain now we know love is just to have sex, frienship is just to get together & have drinks or drugs.is it not ?) man has to change his attitude towards his life .