Teaching peace-living in classrooms

The world talks about peace but there is no school in the world that gives its students lessons or an institute which has  initiated a curriculum for peace living. .  Has any school allocated a period to start an interactive session on this particular aspect?  No certainly not.  Talk of peace is just sheer words.When Civil Rights activist Martin Luther King said, "I have a dream," millions of people who had congregated at Washington D.C, the US capital, celebrated the hope of a bright future for the blacks in particular.  It was a matter of jubilation for his supporters because the words "I have a dream" were soaked in complete honesty and exuded a promise in the tone of the statement. And in these few words were hidden a call for the people to join him in his endeavour.Such was the power of the words and more important was its meaning.  The words had value and when said from a person of repute, the credibility of the content multiplied.Fortunately, the words remain the same but its power gets weak when it comes out from a speaker whose credentials are suspect.Today when Indian politicians talk of a dream to build the country for a strong future global positioning, they receive nothing but scornful looks and raised eyebrows. India is  correctly positioned on the world map.  The world powers  knows about us as the powers in our country know about the smallest countries like Monaco or Nauru after the Vatican city.Perhaps India's global positioning has to be done in context of economic conditions, per capita income, social securities, medical facilities, transport systems and a host of others. This means that India should progress and then field herself as a giant on a macro level which again means that the countrymen are going to benefit first when we actually talk about global positioning.Specifically speaking, common Indian does not need to know the distance between Karachi and Mumbai through nautical miles or the air distance between Israel and New delhi. Or have accurate knowledge of all the countries in the world.But the two words, Global Positioning has become such a misnomer with most Indians that the context is lost and a new wasteful meaning emerges from it.   It is sure that  ninety percent of the country MLAs will fail to give the correct answer if there was a random survey for the meaning of the two words.In India, we still await  the day when we will believe that one's word is a word – a commitment and a promise to fulfill.