What does spirituality include in the Gülen Movement? How do the schools convey spirituality and moral values?
For Fethullah Gülen ‘spirituality’ includes directly religious teachings, and also ethics, logic, psychological health, and affective openness: compassion and tolerance are key terms. Fethullah Gülen believes that ‘non-quantifiable’ qualities need to be instilled in students alongside training in the ‘exact’ disciplines.
This kind of teaching program is more related to identity and daily life than ‘political action’, and it will yield a new spiritual search and moral commitment to a better and more human social life. Those dimensions of education can only be conveyed through example in the teachers’ manners, disposition and behavior, not through preaching or direct instruction.
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