Integral Education: AN OVERVIEW
The holistic approach to education followed here is known as Integral Education. It is essentially a preparatory and collective work (by the organizers, teachers, students and their parents} with a view to the all-round development of human individuals for the next evolutionary leap beyond man.
“Education to be complete must have five principal aspects corresponding to the five principal activities of the human being: the physical, the vital, the mental, the psychic and the spiritual. Usually, these phases of education succeed each other in a chronological order following the growth of the individual. This, however, does not mean that the one should replace the other but that all must continue, completing one another, till the end of his life.”
“…The truth we seek is made up of four major aspects : Love, Knowledge, Power and Beauty. These four attributes of the Truth will express themselves spontaneously in our being. The psychic will be the vehicle of true and pure love, the mind will be the vehicle of infallible knowledge, the vital will manifest an invincible power· and strength and the body will be the expression of perfect beauty and perfect harmony.”
-The Mother