A workshop was held between 27 November and 4 December 2022 with 100 Science and Art Centre   teachers in the project named Society 5.0 for Gifted Education, which is carried out to improve the quality of special education services for gifted students. The project, which is financially supported by the European Union, Instrument for Pre-accession Assistance (IPA), is carried out by Bornova Şehit Fatih Satır Science and Art Center, while Turgutlu Science and Art Center Dokuz Eylül University and Celal Bayar University are project partners.

We hope that the design thinking system will be internalized and learned by our children and young people and used in their studies, thus opening new horizons for us. It is hoped that this book will contribute to the new ideas, designs, projects or works of art that will be formed by using this new method in the future.

Though many people may think the ideals put forward are entirely beyond the average teacher, and cannot be put into practice in ordinary schools, I can thus point at least to one institution in which I have seen many of the suggestions made in this book actually carried out. It may be that some of them are, at present, beyond most schools; but they will be recognised and practised as soon as teachers realise them as desirable, and have a proper understanding of the importance of their office.

Most of the recommendations apply, I think, to all countries, and to all religions, and are intended to sound the note of our common brotherhood, irrespective of religion or caste, race or colour. If the unity of life and the oneness of its purpose could be clearly taught to the young in schools, how much brighter would be our hopes for the future! The mutual distrust of races and nations would disappear, if the children were trained in mutual love and sympathy as members of one great family of children all over the world, instead of being taught to glory only in their own traditions and to despise those of others. True patriotism is a beautiful quality in children, for it means unselfishness of purpose and enthusiasm for great ideals; but that is false patriotism which shows itself in contempt for other nations. There are, I am told, many organisations within the various nations of the world, intended to inspire the children with a love for their country and a desire to serve her, and that is surely good; but I wonder when there will be an international organisation to give the children of all nations common ideals also, and a knowledge of the real foundation of right action, the Brotherhood of Man.

1. KRISHNAMURTI