The Need for Universal Accord so that Man May Be Morally Trained to Defend Humanity

“The Need for Universal Accord so that Man May Be Morally Trained to Defend Humanity” points to the need to bring about a unanimous moral agreement among all men in the pursuit of one of the goals of education. This article, included in Education and Peace currently published by ABC-Clio Press, Oxford, U.K., was one of the lectures on the subject of Peace that Dr. Maria Montessori delivered during the Sixth International Montessori Congress, held in Copenhagen in 1937.

From the article...“When we speak of peace, we do not mean a partial truce between separate nations, but a permanent way of life for all mankind. This goal cannot be attained through the signing of treaties by individual nations. The problem for us does not lie in political action to save one nation or another; our efforts must be devoted, rather, to solving a psychological problem involving all mankind, and as a consequence acquiring a clear conception of the kind of morality necessary to defend humanity as a whole. For today it is not just one nation that is threatened with destruction, but all mankind from one end of the earth to the other, with all its various peoples at different stages of civilisation”.