Religion
Dear Rebecca and Yasmine,
While I am not sure education is the key to stopping repression, getting out of poverty, etc. ( I know a of LOT of people with good educations who repress others... in fact most worl leaders of repression are well educated...), I do know that with the right kind of personality and a wider education of some sort, not necessarily academic, then people have the tools to see a bigger picture. I think, in some ways, that is what religion is all about when people are not busy using it as a weapon against their fellow human beings. I think what men like Zarathustra, Guatama, Jesus and Mohammed (Peace be on all of them) brought to the table were not a set of rules, but a unique perspective in their time and place.
Regards,
A'isha
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