Robert Muller: [GMW #2036] Creating And Nurturing Indigenous Universities

Monday, September 6, 2010

[GMW #2036] Creating And Nurturing Indigenous Universities

Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 1 to 500

~ Idea 1039 ~ 15 May 1997

Today, at the University for Peace a conference of indigenous communities was opened on the subject of creating indigenous Universities.

I was glad to learn that the idea I gave a year ago during a visit to the Indigenous College of Saskatchewan that they should transform themselves into a University was being implemented.

At the opening, as the participants introduced themselves, a thread of cotton was unrolled from one speaker to the next. After a while a web was occupying the area separating the participants.

When I presented myself as Robert Muller, Chancellor of the University for Peace, I added my indigenous name given to me by the Hopi Indians (the Peaceful Ones), namely Kogyun Deyo, Spider Boy, meaning that my task was to make a huge spider web to catch all the evil in the world and to throw it far away into the universe.

At the end of the meeting I was given the web as a souvenir and reminder of my duty.

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,

Volume II Chapter 15 - Of Beauty and Art
In life you are both the instrument and the player. You must know well your instrument and play it well.

"One person gets nothing but discord out of a

piano; another gets harmony. No one claims

the piano is at fault. Life is about the same. The

discord is there, and the harmony is there.

Study to play it correctly, and it will give forth

the beauty; play it falsely, and it will give forth

the ugliness. Life is not at fault."

Ninon de l'Enclos

UN News Sources - UN Chronicle, United Nations News Service , UN Wire News Archive
References: Earth Charter, Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Rights of: Children, Women, Indigenous People
To Be Written: Rights of Nature, Birds, Animals, Fish, etc.

Here is what Robert Kennedy said, 42 years ago:

"Too much and too long, we seem to have surrendered community excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material things. Our gross national product ... if we should judge America by that - counts air pollution and cigarette advertising, and ambulances to clear our highways of carnage. It counts special locks for our doors and the jails for those who break them. It counts the destruction of our redwoods and the loss of our natural wonder in chaotic sprawl. It counts napalm and the cost of a nuclear warhead, and armored cars for police who fight riots in our streets. It counts Whitman's rifle and Speck's knife, and the television programs which glorify violence in order to sell toys to our children.

"Yet the gross national product does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education, or the joy of their play. It does not include the beauty of our poetry or the strength of our marriages; the intelligence of our public debate or the integrity of our public officials. It measures neither our wit nor our courage; neither our wisdom nor our learning; neither our compassion nor our devotion to our country; it measures everything, in short, except that which makes life worthwhile. And it tells us everything about America except why we are proud that we are Americans."

Books recommended by Robert are here.
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