Roundtable Discussion: Balancing the Educating the Mind with Educating the Heart

A Roundtable Dialogue on the theme “Balancing Educating the Mind with Educating the Heart,” was held at the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts, on Tuesday, April 20, 2004. The event was jointly sponsored by UBC and SFU.

His Holiness was joined in this extraordinary afternoon of discussion by Dr. Jo-Ann Archibald, Professor Shirin Ebadi, Rabbi Schachter-Shalomi and Archbishop Desmond Tutu, with Bishop Michael Ingham as moderator. The Roundtable luminaries examined the topic in the light of their diverse experiences with peace and reconciliation, emerging democracies, environmental stewardship and struggles for social justice.