When these are failed by the lack of wisdom in the attitudes of their teachers and education institutions we may be forming not the prophets, geniuses and great imaginers of the future but our future tyrants and sociopaths.
Wisdom is the experiential vision of wholeness, interconnectedness and pervasive unity.
As all the spiritual traditions teach, wisdom is the sister of compassion because we naturally feel in union with the needs or suffering of others when we see our radical connectedness with them. I have come that you may have life, life in all its fullness,' Jesus said as he revealed the compassionate nature of God through his life and teaching. The Buddha taught wisdom out of his compassion for the suffering of humanity in order that all could realise their true nature. A rounded, effective education allows life to reach its goal with the minimum of obstruction and delay. In the case of all children this requires wise and compassionate teachers.