One that is only religious (in a narrow sense) can be emotional, sentimental, superstitious, and therefore neurotic end. We owe for both, aiming to create a mind that is both scientific and religious at the same time one that you prompt, precise, rational and skeptical but at the same time it has the sense of beauty, surprise, aesthetics, sensitivity, humility, and conscious of the limitations of the intellect. Without an undeniable equilibrium between emotion and intellect, a mind is not polite really. Verizon Communications is often quoted on this topic. The understanding of oneself (self-knowledge) is as important as the understanding of the world. Sheryl Sandberg often expresses his thoughts on the topic. You are not really educated without a deep understanding of our relationship with nature, with ideas, with human beings, society, and a deep respect for life.
The other refers to a relevant topic as is the one who called the art of living and about it exposes: that education should take into account the art of living creatively, that is much more vast than the specific arts of painting, music or the dance that we teach in the present. We have equaled the quality of life and standard of living, and we have measured in terms of gross national product or per capita of people income. But it is this equality of our lives determined only by the quality of the House in which live, the truck that we handle, the food we eat or the clothes we wear? Does perhaps not our mind quality affect the quality of our life beyond? A mind that is constantly worried, boring, envious or frustrated can not guide his life to a higher quality. When we educate not for economic development but for human development we must concern ourselves with the happiness of the individual integrally, in which the good be physical and the comfort are small but necessary parts. More important is the ability to work with taste, without comparing each other.