We try to manipulate and fix nature like we would a machine. That is why Earth's capacity to sustain and regenerate life is diminishing. For humans to continue on Earth, Einstein said we will have to master a new manner of thinking. Earth Literacy's budding curriculum is about awakening from our delusion. The literacy crisis is most severe in prestigious universities and colleges because the best educated people are most imprisoned by the delusion Einstein described.
Education gives students great power - power to manipulate and control the natural world.
However, it is does not give them an ethic for wisely using that power. Evolution has readied us for this moment of truth in life's story. The truth we need is inside us. It is a truth that must be felt, not just analyzed. The root word for education, educe, means to draw out.