3. Age of Enlightenment

Human nature and the way humans think started to take a turn in the 18th century. Scientist and philosophers were challenging the status quo, according to Wikipedia by, "after 1650, everything, no matter how fundamental or deeply rooted, was questioned in the light of philosophic reason". The point back behind this was to ameliorate the way civilization made decisions using scientific and philosophical knowledge, instead of through the traditional way of faith and church. Today those ideas have transformed our society into what it is now. However, we still face problems similar to those of the past, but rather than using conscious decision making to base our answer, RSA suggest we are using human intuition and how we automatically respond to a situation. They also say that, "it has become a cliche, that education is the most valuable resource in a global knowledge community." They feel that fostering empathic capacity is just as important to have achieve citizens at world peace with each other. Though this is a main factor to living among each other, how would we be able to if we are not educated about others we live amongst. In the second RSA video, the speaker talks about how we educate our childern so they have a sense of cultural identity, while being part of a globalization. With public and private schools keeping socially advantage and disadvantage children separate from each other, never getting the chance to interact with each other, it's no wonder why people just stress education because they don't know of any other ways to improve society. Now with a lot of kids not taking the traditional path after high school, this helps them realize what they want for them self, unlike children who take the norm path.