Before becoming peaceful, generous, home for millions of
homeless, rejected, persecuted, cursed but in fact optimistic, liberal,
revolutionary, people of Cave Toronto was ransacked in battle of York 1812
once, and burnt twice in fire first in 1849 and then in 1904. People say gold is
never proved pure gold until it goes through fire. Fire
is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men Seneca thinks. Thus Toronto
became a city of Gold for those whom Golden times were snatched. Whenever I walk In Pythagoras’ favorite wide
streets of Toronto I found it a city of dreamers carrying their interpretations
in their hands. Toronto is a city of mosques, temples, monasteries, Synagogues
and churches from its atmosphere hundreds of supplications ascend and become one
in front of their lord. And when it rains it rains over every heart and soul
equally. The great love and care for the deserving new comers in Flamingdon
Park definitely make you surprised and wet eyed. Although one year and few
months are like few days to understand the nature of a city and its communities
but the level of harmony and degree of peace that exist in Toronto life tells
you the whole story in a very short time.
I would like to share a few observations
that drive our attention towards few reforms thorough which we can make this
city more peaceful, and the invisible walls of social classes can be removed.
In this multi cultural city which is according to Wikipedia Encyclopedia one of
the world’s most diverse cities by percentage of
non-native-born residents, with about 49% of the population born outside Canada
we need a better school curriculum. Before describing detailed arguments it is
better to understand the decisive forces that make a nation in its homeland and
a community in any other country less or more civilized. Economic prosperity
and the ideology of heroism are two major agents behind civilization and
mannerism. In economic crisis, most of the nation loses their actual ideology
and short term benefits and beneficiaries become their ambitions and heroes.
When a nation suffers economic crisis
and is persecuted physically and psychologically naturally it adopts a
merciless mindset that make them snatchers, not only of the goods but of those
manners and ethics which they think are illusions of modern society. Sometime
they laugh on others, throw garbage around the bin but not in the bin. They
adopt a slogan “who cares”.
You can never change their concrete
habits by representing examples of heroism, mannerism from non native
civilization although how better and best proved they are. On school level
before telling them the stories of heroes of other nations and teaching them
the philosophy of good or bad from non native school of thoughts, it will be
useful to tell them the stories of their native heroes and unfold the pages of
their own civilization’ authors to facilitate them to correct their sick
ideologies and to melt those iron habits which become steel in fire of
sufferings and crisis. They will be able to understand that one who adopts
wrong way to win during crisis do not become a hero. Heroism has constant
values in all societies. Civilized societies and positivity have common grounds
though they come out of different sources and forms like every morning Toronto
sends multi linguistics, multinational, multi color supplication towards
heaven. But when it rains, it rains over every heart and soul equally with same
melody and in same color.
Thus, by including brief chapters of
heroes and their thoughts, in school curriculum from all nations in one sense
and communities in other sense of Toronto will be proved helpful in removing
invisible social walls, small social volcanoes and that strong inner advocate
whose argumentation irritates human mind and a painter who always draws a
picture of inferiorities and a preacher who always convince our mind to create
apprehensions and to accept them without having seven proofs at least.
