The dedication in 1953 of a new ultramodern school on the remote, nearly inaccessible northern tip of Okinawa, where at the time there was no village, nor were there any people within miles, evidences the vital importance Okinawans place upon education in human affairs. They wished to build a village adjacent to the school site, but the school had to come first before people could bring children into the area and be assured of education for them.
To finance the building, they sold rice lands. To develop new rice lands in this arid region, the prospective residents dammed up a lake which they found on the opposite side of the island* and channeled the water through mountains of solid rock for use in flooding the rice fields and in generating electricity. No labor was too arduous, no task too difficult to ensure by education an enriched and rewarding human experience for their children.
If human education draws back the curtain to reveal wider horizons, what vast vistas of spiritual revelation unfold from our relying on divine Mind to designate, guide, and control our activity!
