The More I Learn About the World. . . .
     The following is a very hopeful message, I think, as we move toward a new year. And I thank my friend Ginny for the book from which this piece comes, Green Spirituality by Veronica Ray.–April Moore
    “The more I learn about the world, the better my interactions with it will be.
    “Education is our first step toward improving all our actions. Whether we learn from courses, books, experiences, or other people, everything we learn can help us improve the world and our effects on it. Whether we learn individually or collectively, all learning helps stretch humanity beyond its past mistakes.
    “H. G. Welles wrote, “Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.” We now know of so many potentially catastrophic problems in the world that it may seem overwhelming. But everything we learn, every forward step we take with our true understanding, can change the way we think and act, and that will change the world. We can begin making amends for the mistakes we’ve made in the past and stop making the same ones now and in the future. We can use our uniquely human capacity to learn.”
