The document discusses holistic education and its benefits for the economy, health, and reducing stress. It argues that mainstream education focuses too much on superficial goals and neglects students' spiritual and productive development. A more holistic approach integrating a productive domain like crafts, skills, or agriculture into 25% of school time could make education more accessible, empower students, and reduce stress, crime, and unemployment. This would help strengthen individuals and societies while reducing social divisions.
3. Improvement in economy through holistic
education is pivotal to Total Stress
Management i.e. empowerment and
blossoming of an individual, school, nation
and the world.
If you analyze the poverty and associated
globally prevalent issues leading to ubiquitous
stress, with a holistic perspective, then it
would be clear that the innate core (the
spiritual domain that imparts universal
perspective and globally beneficial outlook)
and the productive domain (that empowers);
of people concerned with education; are
4. grossly neglected and remain perennially
deficient.
Mainstream Education System and the
courses and careers in it; revolve around and
serve the grossly petty and superficial
considerations, motivations and interests (I
am referring to what I have been observing
in India for last half a century and guess that
it is not much different in other parts of the
world)! This state of affairs is strongly
protected and strengthened by the political
elements with similar interests! Hence laws,
rules and regulations develop accordingly!
5. Steps to rectify
1. Working physically in different ways and
earning [productive domain] in itself, is not a
burden. It is an opportunity to grow from
within. It is an opportunity to develop self
esteem. It is an opportunity to become self
sufficient.
2. This leads to self sufficiency in schools.
They do not have to depend on heavy fees or
federal grants or donations. This makes the
education institutions
accessible to all and self sufficient!
6. 3. Through productive domain the
hypokinetic stress, emotional stress of being
dependent and intellectual stress
of excessive memorizing would be averted.
4. Due to productive domain, the dropping
out due to lack of earning [as is common in
case of millions of students in many parts of
world] and then turning into helpless,
vulnerable and cheap child labor would come
down.
5. Being empowered, the students would not
go through the stress of unemployment and
7. turn into helpless, frustrated mental wrecks
or criminals.
6. The emphasis on productive (and hence
psychomotor and practical aspects) would
bring down the necessity to “copy” and
associated crimes and corruption in
procedures of examinations, certification,
providing grants presently rampant in many
parts of world.
The caste based reservation for education,
jobs and other faculties; responsible for social
divide and strife in many parts of the world;
(especially India) can be peacefully and
8. advantageously done away with, by
consensus!
This is only a brief sketch of the potential
advantages of productive domain.
The practical aspects of productive domain
can include several crafts and skills and arts
and their sale according to the situations. For
example, planting of
medicinal herbs, rearing of cows, home
flower gardening, production of chalk
sticks, carpentry, pottery, arts such as music,
dance, painting and others.
9. Tips
1. The productive domain should be an
essential ingredient of Mainstream Education
System, but no particular job should be
enforced.
2. The productive domain should constitute
only about twenty five percent of the school
time.
3. The teachers and others should participate
in the productive domain.
Warnings
10. 1. Administrative aspects such as
infrastructural development have to be done
with professional expertise.
2. It should be done with due care and
concern for the physical capacities of the
children and should not be painful and
troublesome.
3. All this should be done with a clear aim of
all-round development of the students,
Teachers and other concerned.
Sources available for free download on
www.superliving.net
1. Stress: Understanding and Management:
Dr. Shriniwas Kashalikar
11. 2. Conceptual Stress: Understanding and
Management: Dr. Shriniwas Kashalikar
3. Hitaguj (Marathi): Dr. Shriniwas
Kashalikar
4. Smiling Sun: Dr. Shriniwas Kashalikar
5. Namasmaran: Dr. Shriniwas Kashalikar
Dr. Shriniwas Kashalikar
