Integral Education

Human being views world as the structured unity. As the world is a structured unity, human being, living in the world, lives by privileging superior realities over inferior realities. This is present in every structure of the world such as political (ruling over the ruled), social (preferring rich over poor), cultural (preferring high caste over low caste), religious (soul over body and God over Human), and even now it is entering into education.

The Greek aim of education was to impart education for the growth of whole development of the personality. In other words for Greeks ‘Body + Mind+ Character= Education’. There was no stress on God.  But as the times went by, that is from 3^rd Century to 15^th Century, the imparting of education was mainly to teach religion and religious values. For this era ‘Religion = Education’. The stress of education was on religion but not on character and body. From the time of renaissance to French Revolution, education was concentrating on the human being. In other words, ‘Human Being = Education’. It had left out the education of body and religion.

Education preferred one over the other in each era according to the situation and the context. The education of today must neither privilege nor neglect and not even be neutral but become active to integrate all the elements of education that makes up whole human person from the point of society, individuality, and religion. In other words, according to me the 21^st century education is, ‘Faith + Reason + Character = Education’. The neglect of one and privileging of the other in education leads to a function of right hand and the disfunctioning of left hand even though in good condition. The need of the hour is the INTEGRAL EDUCATION.