Holistic Education

Abstract

We want that education by which character is formed, strength of mind is increased, the intellect is expanded and by which one can stand on one’s own feet. (Swami Vivekananda Vol-5).Holistic education covers a wide range of philosophical orientations and academic practices. Its focus is on completeness, and it attempts to avoid excluding any significant aspects of the human experience. It is an eclectic and inclusive movement whose main characteristic is the idea that educational experiences foster a less materialistic and a more spiritual worldview along with more dynamic and holistic views of reality It also proposes that educational experience promote a more balanced development of – and cultivate the relationship among – the different aspects of the individual (intellectual, physical, spiritual, emotional, social and Aesthetic), as well as the relationships between the individual and other people, the individual and natural environment, the inner- self of students and external world, emotion and reason, different discipline of knowledge and different structure of knowing. Holistic education is concerned with life experience, not with narrowly defined'' fundamental skills".