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Integral Education

The first principle of true teaching is that nothing can be taught. The second principle is that the mind has to be consulted in its own growth. .......

Principle of true teaching-Sri Aurobindo

Education to be complete must have five principal aspects corresponding to the five principal activities of the human being; the physical, the vital....

Integral Education
The Mother

Physical education had three principal aspects: (1)control and discipline of the functioning of the body; (2)an integral, methodical and ....

Physical Education
The Mother

Of all education, vital education is perhaps the most important, the most indispensable. Yet it is rarely taken up and pursued ....

Vital Education
The Mother


A true mental education, which will prepare man for a higher life, has five principal phases. Normally these phases follow one after another....

Mental Education
The Mother

So far we have dealt only with the education that can be given to all children born upon earth and which is concerned with purely human faculties. But ....

Psychic and Spiritual Education - The Mother

1.Complete self-control not only to the extent of not showing any anger, but remaining absolutely quiet and undisturbed under all circumstances. 2.In....

Successful teacher
The Mother

Most parents, for various reasons, give very little thought to the true education which should be imparted to children. When they have ....

Role of Parents
The Mother


In fact, for education, people should always encourage both tendencies side by side: the thirst for the Marvelous, the seemingly unrealizable, ....

Imagination
The Mother


But the acquiring of various kinds of information is only one and not the chief of the means and necessities of education: its central aim is the building of the powers of the human mind and spirit, it is the formation or, as I would prefer to view it, the evoking of knowledge and will and of the power to use knowledge, character, culture, - that at least if no more. - Sri Aurobindo



 

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