When Consciousness-

Based Education is

implemented fully within a school, the school's atmosphere becomes harmonious, happy, safe, and conducive to learning.

Implementing the Consciousness-Based Education program in public, charter, and private schools
by Consciousness-Based Education Association, U.S.A.
23 April 2008

Now there is a scientifically proven program to develop total brain functioning for increasing intelligence, creativity, and happiness in students and teachers, and for improving educational outcomes in every school.

The problems in education

Poor student achievement, fatigue, stress, apathy, alcohol and drug use, and school violence are widespread problems in education; yet experts have not been able to offer any promising new solutions to the problems facing our nation’s schools. Adopting more rigorous standards and testing, establishing more elaborate discipline and security measures, or organizing student discussions about their difficulties are superficial approaches. A real solution is needed to the problems in schools everywhere.

The source of the problems

The primary source of all problems in the schools is lack of knowledge of how to fully develop each student, lack of the knowledge of how to enliven total brain development, and thereby awaken the student’s latent inner intelligence, creativity, and happiness, for increasing achievements and fulfilling success in life.

Education today, throughout the world, is information-based. It focuses on what is “known,” such as facts, events, and ideas, without the knowledge and technology to systematically unfold the creative intelligence of every student, the “knower.”

Such an education, which presents knowledge of different disciplines without a technology for holistically developing the student’s consciousness, is necessarily a fragmented approach to education, which only partially develops the brain.

With such an educational system, the student, born with unlimited capacity of knowledge, power, and inner happiness, remains a partially developed person, struggling with limited achievements, stress, dissatisfaction, and frustration. This frustration, resulting from the limitations students experience in what they know and what they can do, can express itself in all kinds of antisocial behavior, even violence.

The solution to problems in education: implement the Consciousness-Based Education program

The solution to the problems in education is for schools everywhere to implement Consciousness-Based Education—a scientifically proven program to enliven the total brain of each student, and thereby awaken the student’s total intelligence, creativity, and happiness.

More than 40 years of experience, 600 research studies in 30 countries, and the educational outcomes of over 200 schools throughout the world, document the profound benefits of this non-sectarian program to improve educational outcomes, reduce stress and antisocial behavior, increase creativity and intelligence, and unfold the inner happiness of students and teachers of all cultural and educational backgrounds.

The Consciousness-Based Education program, which includes the Maharishi's Transcendental Meditation technique, enables any school to fulfill its responsibility to capably educate the youth of society. Through this program, students—wherever they are, whatever their background—will experience increasing success and satisfaction day by day.

As verified by decades of research and educational experience worldwide, the Transcendental Meditation technique strengthens the cognitive, physiological, and affective foundations of learning, while promoting more healthy life-style choices and positive behavior. At the same time, regular practice of this technique significantly reduces the stress and tension that many students and teachers experience daily; and when implemented fully within a school, the entire school atmosphere becomes harmonious, happy, safe, and conducive to learning.

The Transcendental Meditation technique involves no change in lifestyle or belief. More than five million people around the world, of all cultures, religions, and backgrounds have learned the practice.

Develop ideal citizens

As students unfold more and more of their creative potential, they cease to be frustrated and dissatisfied, and start living more possibilities in their lives. Their thoughts, feelings, speech, and behavior become more life-supporting for themselves and others; increasingly they exercise their creativity in whatever they do, enjoying increasing mastery with fewer problems. Increasingly they are able to fulfill their own interests while upholding the interests of others, which is the basis of ideal citizenship.

© Copyright 2008 Consciousness-Based Education Association

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