Today is the birthday of Mohatma Gandhi, India's spiritual and political leader in the early 1900s. He helped India win independence from Great Britain through a policy of nonviolent civil disobedience, a policy imitated in the 1960s by Martin Luther King, Jr.
Gandhi was certainly gifted. Parents with gifted children who are emotionally sensitive, who care deeply for the well-being of others, and who are concerned with fairness and issues of right and wrong will no doubt recognize those same traits in Gandhi.
Gandhi undoubtedly reached the fifth and highest level of Kazimierz Dabrowski's Theory of Positive Disintegration, a theory of moral development. Few people reach that level, a level at which one lives a life in service to humanity, like a Mother Theresa.
Gandhi was certainly gifted. Parents with gifted children who are emotionally sensitive, who care deeply for the well-being of others, and who are concerned with fairness and issues of right and wrong will no doubt recognize those same traits in Gandhi.
Gandhi undoubtedly reached the fifth and highest level of Kazimierz Dabrowski's Theory of Positive Disintegration, a theory of moral development. Few people reach that level, a level at which one lives a life in service to humanity, like a Mother Theresa.
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