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| Transcendental Meditation reduces stress in Australia's Maharishi Primary School On June 15, 2006, Kelly Ryan of the Melbourne Herald Sun in Australia reported that students at the Reservoir Primary School are giving new meaning to the expression ‘higher learning’. They are practising Maharishi’s Transcendental Meditation Programme twice a day as part of their curriculum. According to Dr Deans, hundreds of published studies have reported that the practice of the Transcendental Meditation Technique produces a wide range of benefits when applied in schools, leading to unprecedented educational outcomes—academically, artistically, in creative problem solving, in sports, and in the development of good citizenship. At Maharishi School in Iowa, Upper School grades consistently score in the top one percent on standardized tests both nationally and in Iowa, and the school has won over a hundred state, national, and international championships in the past decade. According to Dr Pat Bassett, President of the National Association of Independent Schools, USA, ‘Maharishi School is a world-renowned independent school of the highest calibre.' Similar successes have been reported at hundreds of schools, colleges, and universities around the world, with students representing a broad spectrum of economic, cultural, and religious backgrounds. These include institutions as diverse as inner city middle schools in Detroit and Washington, DC, a university in Beijing, a vocational college in South Africa, and over one hundred and fifty schools in India.
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