{"id":19865,"date":"2012-07-02T12:00:22","date_gmt":"2012-07-02T11:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=19865"},"modified":"2012-07-02T11:03:37","modified_gmt":"2012-07-02T10:03:37","slug":"knowledge-forinthrough-dignity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2012\/07\/knowledge-forinthrough-dignity\/","title":{"rendered":"Knowledge for\/in\/through Dignity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this age of digital learning, so much knowledge Humankind can embrace<br \/>\nbut humanizingly, dignifyingly knowledge do we know how to trace?<\/p>\n<p>We know that constructively used knowledge may edify<br \/>\nbut can the types of knowledge we create really dignify?<\/p>\n<p>Ever more complex types of knowledge we may recognize<br \/>\nbut can the types of knowledge we create really humanize?<\/p>\n<p>What kinds of vital knowledge does Humankind need?<br \/>\nKnowledge that will help the hungry, the starving feed<\/p>\n<p>What can we do when we think that life gives us trouble?<br \/>\nLet\u00b4s act with peace and dignity and happiness may double<\/p>\n<p>On the Web, myriad types of scientific knowledge may be found<br \/>\nbut how much of that vast knowledge will also be spiritually sound?<\/p>\n<p>If knowledge can be created and used as dignifying power<br \/>\nWhy can\u00b4t that knowledge also share the beauty of a flower?<\/p>\n<p>What is the ultimate dignifying principle for Humankind to comply?<br \/>\nOur knowledge creation and use should never humiliate; always elevate!<br \/>\n_____________________<\/p>\n<p><em>Francisco Gomes de Matos, a peace linguist from Recife, Brazil. Author of <\/em>Criatividade no Ensino de Ingl\u00eas<em>, a<\/em><em> resource book. S\u00e3o Paulo: DISAL Editora, 2004. <\/em><em>Co-founder: The World Dignity University initiative.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this age of  digital learning, so much knowledge Humankind  can embrace<br \/>\nbut humanizingly, dignifyingly knowledge do we know  how to  trace?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry-format"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19865\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}