Total Knowledge— Consciousness Based Education—will create fulfilment through every developing state of life in the whole of the student's educational career.

Total Knowledge in Consciousness-Based Education brings fulfilment to every student
by Global Good News staff writer
23 December 2008

During Maharishi's Global Peace Conference on 9 November 2005, Raja John Hagelin, Raja of Invincible America and Minister of Science and Technology of the Global Country of World Peace, introduced Dr David Lynch, Founder of the David Lynch Foundation for Consciousness-Based Education and World Peace, who, through his Foundation, 'has so beautifully brought a wave of Total Knowledge to tens of thousands of students across America'.

Dr Lynch presented to Maharishi a question that had come up from a student during a lecture on one of Dr Lynch's tours with Raja Hagelin about Consciousness-Based Education.

The student asked: 'What can students do, Maharishi? So many students today are worried about the state of the world. Their worries are not just about war and peace, but also the environment, the economy, and the health care system. Every area of life seems to be in serious trouble. What advice or direction can you give students who want to be sure that the world they will inherit from their parents will be a world of peace and tranquility, and not destruction and disease?'

Maharishi answered:
'One word for that, Dr Lynch, is "Total Knowledge". It is knowledge—Total Knowledge—to the population of the world.

'What is the education system today? The education system is not Total Knowledge. We are promoting Consciousness-Based Education. That means that we are giving Total Knowledge on the ground of pure Transcendental Consciousness. We are promoting Total Knowledge for every student, right from the first day of his schooling time—right from the first day.

'Our programme is to give the student a taste of a fruit of guava. He eats a guava. Later on, [we] tell him that what he is eating in the guava is hundreds of trees of the guava, which are present in each seed of the guava. You do not have to tell him about the tree of the guava. Give him the taste of the fruit. Later on he will find that he was able to eat huge trees in one little seed of the guava. That means the knowledge of the tree comes later, start with the taste of the fruit.

'This means give the taste of Total Knowledge right in the first day of schooling, and the different values of the knowledge later on. The whole of life is there to verify the different values of knowledge emerging from that Total Knowledge which was given to them the first day.

'What was given to them the first day? The children are taught one alphabet—"A", "I", "U". You keep on showing them how much more knowledge there is in "A". As they grow, they find more and more avenues of different fields of knowledge arising from "A" with which they are familiar.

'So the answer is that Total Knowledge, right from the beginning in the field of education, will create fulfilment through every developing state of life in the whole of their educational career.

'Dr Hagelin, explain this to them. Give them the fruit of all knowledge, which means Total Knowledge in the beginning, and then later tell them about this branch and this fruit and this flower and this leaf and this colour. All are emerging from the same thing.

'So the word is "Total Knowledge" right in the first syllable, right in the beginning days of their schooling career. This will be the Consciousness-Based Education. "Total Knowledge" is the word—finished.'

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