Consciousness-Based Education
Consciousness-Based education has been available for over 35 years throughout the world. It has transformed the process of learning in the schools where it has been implemented. Simply put, Consciousness-Based education has as its main focus—you the student—rather than the books or information from which—you the student—learn.
People have pondered throughout the ages…Is it possible to educate a man and raise him to a state of perfection? Certainly, today’s prevailing systems of education have not. Even graduates of the most prestigious schools and universities are prone to mistakes. Governments misjudge the direction for their nation, corporate directors lead their companies down a wrong path, and all are at risk for making mistakes in their personal and family lives that could lead to misfortune and ill health. Such has been the legacy of modern education.
Against this backdrop of educational mediocrity, Maharishi Academy has come forth to set a new standard for education—that each student be cultivated as a perfect and total individual, free from problems and mistakes; and that he be instilled with the power, knowledge, and vision to lead his family, his nation, and his world to the greatest heights.
Clearly, such a holistic and effective approach to learning represents the pinnacle of the education pyramid and presents a beautiful vision of possibilities for society. Wherein lies the secret to accomplish this extraordinary goal? It is in the Consciousness-Based approach to education, developed by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.
Consciousness-Based education connects each discipline and each learning point with your own personal experience. How does it do this? First, by allowing you to experience your innermost Self which is pure consciousness; and second, by discovering that each discipline (math, science, art, etc.) has at its basis the same field of pure consciousness or creative intelligence that is the fountainhead of human intelligence.
In the Classroom
In your classroom each day, you will study how creative intelligence moves, structures, and organizes the universe. The universe is forever in motion and continually re-creates itself in a progressive, orderly, and evolutionary way. These same orderly laws and principles that maintain the universe also guide human intelligence and evolution, therefore it is easy and natural to connect all the courses of study, which are outside you, to the reality which is inside You.
Consciousness-Based education is not only a powerful intellectual discipline, but it will allow you to grow into a person who acts from your deepest level of consciousness and lives spontaneously in accord with the laws of nature.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi summarizes the whole process of Consciousness-Based education as follows:
“If we look into the process of gaining knowledge we find there are two sides to knowledge: the object of knowledge, that which we seek to know, and the subject of knowledge, the knower. What the present system of education provides is knowledge of the object; what it misses is knowledge of the subject, knowledge of the knower in the knower's infinite capacity. When the knower is ignorant about the Self, the whole structure of knowledge is as if baseless.
“As a result of this educational approach, students grow in the awareness that all streams of knowledge are but modes of their own intelligence. They come to feel at home with everyone and everything. Their creative genius blossoms with increasing confidence and self-sufficiency. They cease to violate Natural Law, and grow in the ability to accomplish anything and spontaneously to think and act free from mistakes — the fruit of all knowledge.”
— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi