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QUALITY OF MIND: MANKIND'S MOST PRECIOUS RESOURCE Our lives have been transformed through the triumphs of modern technology. Even though the progress of science and technology has brought convenience to life, severe problems have arisen as side-effects. As the rate of progress in science and technology has increased, lasting happiness has become proportionately elusive. The pressure of material progress has left many wondering whether there ought to be something more to life. We cannot deny that social problems are accelerating in their degree of severity to the extent that the judicial system can hardly keep up. The rising incidence of crime has led to incalculable social damages the financially calculable components of which include our national budgets to finance the prosecution system: police, the judges, courts of law and the prisons – all of which deal with only the symptoms of the problem to worsen. 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The cultivation of whole cultivation of the mind that is the when the forests become integrity of the environment, did we think to campaign for most precious resources, we -- when it’s already too late. Nowadays we cannot deny that modern values are eating into the very root of our being and the disarray of modern society is trying to tell us that we are neglecting the most important human resource of all -- the quality of the human mind itself. The quality of the human mind is the root of human happiness. It is the root of innate wisdom and the potential for harmony and peace in the world. In order to raise the quality of the human mind there are two major components which are (a) the instilling of human virtue; and (b) the practice of meditation to purify the mind. If either virtue or meditation is absent, then the quality of the mind will deteriorate until the eventual result will be the search for fulfilment in unwholesome ways -- the origin of the social problems rife in society today. ROM CRADLE TO THE GRAVE: CHARACTERISTIC PROBLEMS OF FULFILMENT ON LIFE'S PATH On the pathway of life, the different ages of man place different demands on his strength of character. If the mind is in bad shape, lacking the flexibility to change and the insight brought by meditation, it is unlikely that people will have sufficient virtue to cope with the social situations they meet as a part of their everyday lives. Lacking virtues, problems arise - and the resulting spectrum of social ills manifests itself differently according to each person's age and social position allowing certain generalizations to be made. Schoolchildren The special problem experienced by modern schoolchildren in the search for fulfillment is that ethics and morality have disappeared from the classroom. Modern curricula have become so crowded that the only remaining subjects are the vocation ones -- theschoolchildren find no comfort in trying to overcome the moral vacuum in which they find themselves. State education authorities in many parts of the world have always attempted to develop their moral curricula, but because these curricula have never been widely implemented, purely academic content has come to fill the students' timetables. The common sense of the modern-day schoolchildren has no moral dimension. The virtues which schoolchildren need but are lacking are respect, self-discipline and patience. Often children of the modern-day are spoiled to the degree that they become irresponsible towards others in society.