How can spiritual or ethical education be woven into animal advocacy to create more compassionate future generations

so i actually used to be a teacher um i'm kind of multitask earlier but um yeah so uh i am quite big on knowing how much of an impact education can have um and from from a young age as well i was a secondary school teacher so i taught um age 11 to 18 but uh i i still sort of i'm aware how important it is to get values instilled in in children from from as young as possible um so i think yeah sort of integrating empathy-based learning um is it's not done enough um we need to add that to curriculums globally um and i guess just sort of the you know the golden rule of treat others as you wish to be treated yourself and and extending that to non-human animals, you know, to include all sentient beings.

I think that if we had that rule instilled in our society, we wouldn't have half as much of the problem as we do now in terms of seeing the lack of compassion for animals.

So yeah, I think it's a big responsibility that we have to educate future generations.

And there are projects running in several parts of the world that are seeing a benefit to that where they're educating young groups of children, whether it's a wildlife club where they learn about their local endemic species and the importance of protecting them or um i don't know a fishing group that learn um like about not how fishing is actually not sustainable um and you know it's in sort of coastal towns there's there's so many different projects happening that do have um really positive impacts in changing the views of the next generation um So there's one, I can't remember the name, the fishing project that I'm talking about.

It focuses on children that have an interest in fishing, but it tries to educate them into a different hobby.

And there was like one, I think he was like 15 years old and he was interviewed saying that he grew up thinking he wanted to be a fisherman and has now completely changed his mind and it's changed his career path idea completely through this education system where he's sort of been, you know, his eyes have been open to the, the greenwashing of sustainable fishing that people talk about um so yeah stuff like that is is really important i think i've diverged off of spiritual spirituality there but um no but that's

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What inspired its creation and what vision of justice or healing lies at its core?

Oh, I'm so glad you asked that.

It's actually very personal to me.

So my cat Braxton is who the Braxton Foundation is named after.

I sadly lost him just over a year ago now.

And it was a sort of tragic situation.

He needed a surgery, which went really well.

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