The Science of Creative Intelligence gives students a broader comprehension and deeper experience of the functioning of Natural Law both within and around them.

Expanding the capacity for learning through the Science of Creative Intelligence
by Global Good News staff writer
23 June 2009

Maharishi’s Science of Creative Intelligence fulfils the goal of education to develop the full potential latent within every student by expanding learning ability, maximizing motivation and academic achievement, optimizing physical and mental health, eliminating social problems that impair the process of learning, and providing a unifying basis for all branches of knowledge. 

In a talk with the faculty of Maharishi University of Management, then Maharishi International University, in Fairfield, Iowa, USA, on 1 October 1975, Maharishi said that the objective means of gaining knowledge has been well developed, but the subjective means of gaining knowledge—the development of the knower himself—has been ignored. 

The practical aspect of Maharishi’s Science of Creative Intelligence, the Transcendental Meditation Programme, provides the missing ingredient in education by directly developing the knower, the learner. 

Scientific research shows that the Transcendental Meditation Programme develops the key processes involved in learning: sensory perception, memory, intelligence, creativity, problem-solving ability, and adaptability. 

‘The unifying and integrative nature of Creative Intelligence provides a unifying basis for all diverse educational theories,’ Maharishi said. ‘The experience and understanding of Creative Intelligence brings about the full development of the individual, which is the highest ideal of all systems of education.’ 

The Science of Creative Intelligence expands the container of knowledge, the mind, to its full capacity and structures the home of all knowledge in the student’s awareness, Maharishi explained. 

‘The knowledge of all disciplines is already available,’ he said. ‘What is necessary is to develop unbounded awareness, which is the full potential of the knower. This is the basis of ideal education, which will give rise to an ideal society. 

‘When a teacher’s awareness is established in unboundedness, every wave of knowledge that he gives is the expression of the totality of life and enlivens the holistic value of consciousness. 

‘There is mutual exchange between teacher and student in the field of knowledge,’ Maharishi continued. ‘The teacher gives because he is overflowing in knowledge, and the student’s response enlivens the fine emotions of the teacher.

'In this way the teacher becomes more lively while he is enlivening the intelligence of the student.’

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