The integral education is meant to bring about the all-round development of a child. The subject is very vast and in India our traditional way of education tried to do this, integrating theory and practice in a very harmonious way. Later on, the whole orientation of education degenerated into an almost exclusive means for getting job and achieving material success, thereby neglecting its real role in shaping the human being and to grow towards the significance of his life. To prepare the future mankind as envisaged by Sri Aurobindo, The Mother started a system of education in Ashram in a very novel way. The Mother’s book on education explains the way of realizing it. Some of the key ideas of an integral education are shared here with the example of the Mother’s School.
When the whole world was in the midst of thick ignorance, the Divine Mother descended on earth, took a human birth and also physically...
How to remain at the height of consciousness in the field of administration or when we are among people in the thick of activities?...
A talk in Hindi by Dr Alok Pandey at the 39th Nikhiila Utkala Sri Aurobindo Mahila Pathachakra Sammilani, Paralakhemundi, Odisha, January 24-26, 2018.