Holistic education aims to facilitate physical, emotional, intellectual, and spiritual growth through practices like namasmartan in order to promote well-being at the individual, group, national, and global levels. A piecemeal approach that focuses on petty pursuits under the guise of development has led to overproduction, excessive marketing, energy waste, pollution, and conditions that fuel terrorism. The lack of holistic education emphasizing an integrated approach is responsible for hype around value systems that promote these issues.
2. Holistic education aiming at holistic health;
facilitating physical, instinctual, emotional,
intellectual and spiritual growth (with
productive element being integrated in it) is
essential for the welfare of individuals, groups,
nations and the world.
NAMASMARAN is core of holistic education.
The piecemeal approach or facilitation of petty
pursuits (under the guise of development and
progress) are not only useless but are in fact
counterproductive! These approaches have
lead to cancerous spread of industries with
uncontrolled production of unnecessary
utilities and their maddening marketing. These
industries consume energy, fuel and add to
undisposable waste and pollution. This sick
atmosphere on the one hand promotes the
3. growth of terrorism and pretends to act against
it (in a counterproductive way) on the other!
Lack of holistic education is responsible for the
hype of value systems nurturing the above
conditions.
DR. SHRINIWAS KASHALIKAR
