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As all societies are supposed remote indigenous people,
to hold out the hope of equal dinosaur age, or the deep ocean.
opportunity, the principle of it Confucius said, “Happy
can be easily lost if we move people make happy couples,
away from the basics. happy couples make happy
He has also identified the five families, happy families make
necessary ingredients of basic happy communities, and happy
opportunity: communities make happy
1. Enjoyment of a certain nations.”
amount of leisure. CST can help people to
2. Relative freedom from realise the Confucian wisdom.
disease.
3. Freedom from effects of Challenge of Mental Ill Health
malnutrition. The last report of the World
4. Growth and development Health Organization in 2003 on
made possible in a Investing in Mental Health
cultural background, reported that 450- million people
which makes the world had suffered from a mental or
intelligible and behavioural disorder and that
meaningful to the child one in four families has at least
and the person one will one member with a mental
become. disorder.
5. High aspirations level, Mental ill health places
incentives, and rewards. emotional and financial burden
on individuals, their families and
A simple home computer can on society as a whole.
bring the whole family around It costs the developed
the learner’s learning experience countries 3%-4% of GNP plus
or one in a slum can bring a part loss of productivity.
of the community together to There 44%-70% of sufferers
share the excitement of learning. do not receive treatment while in
Imagine the family or the developing countries the
community accompanying the percentage is about 90%. The
learner to the moon, rainforests, report predicted that mental
