Satish Kumar
Satish Kumar
Satish Kumar is an Indian activist and editor. He has been a Jain monk, nuclear disarmament advocate, pacifist, and is the current editor of Resurgence & Ecologist magazine. Now living in England, Kumar is founder and Director of Programmes of the Schumacher College international centre for ecological studies, and of The Small School. His most notable accomplishment is a peace walk with a companion to the capitals of four of the nuclear-armed countries – Washington, London, Paris and Moscow, a...
ProfessionActivist
Date of Birth9 August 1936
numbers people wake-up
Large numbers of young people are waking up. And they are saying, "We are not here just to work for multinational corporations and make money for them. We are here to live. We have to find the meaning of life."
together measurement stories
The old story is a story of measurement. And the New Story is to bring measurement and meaning together. You cannot measure meaning.
clothes purpose pay
Education provides you a profession. But not vocation. You do it only because you need to work to earn money to buy your food, buy your clothes, pay the bills. Our life has a greater meaning, and a greater purpose.
technology cake people
I want New Story education to be skilling human beings and young people to provide basic human needs. Technology and all other things are icing on the cake.
vision environmental today
If we had kept the vision of interconnectedness, we would not have created the kind of environmental crisis facing the world today.
extreme grew
I grew with it, and I used to go to see the monks, who had no possessions, even more extreme than my mother.