Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963)
"How early do you start your science teaching?"
"We start it at the same time we start multiplication and
division. First lessons in ecology."
"Ecology? Isn't that a bit complicated?"
"That's precisely the reason why we begin with it. Never
give children a chance of imagining that anything exists in isolation. Make
it plain from the very first that all living is relationship. Show them
relationships in the woods, in the fields, in the ponds and streams, in the
village and the country around it. Rub it in."
"And let me add," said the Principal, "that we
always teach the science of relationship in conjunction with the ethics of
relationship. Balance, give and take, no excesses---it's the rule of nature
and, translated out of fact into morality, it ought to be the rule
among people. [...]"
from Island by Aldous Huxley
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