Characteristics of Humanized Education

- Humanization of Education from Industrialization of Education- Current education, which developed for the industrial revolution, needs to be enhanced. Humanized-education is aiming for material resolution, intellectual resolution and spiritual resolution. (Material resolution is being definitive about one’s material needs, and being able to have/produce more than those needs as – Prosperity. It manifests as prosperity in the family while enriching nature. Intellectual resolution is having definitiveness and harmony in one’s thought-patterns (thoughts without conflict/contradiction). It manifests as harmony within and in one’s relationships with others in family and society. Spiritual resolution is having comprehension of reality (as it is) in existence (freedom from illusions, doubt and fear). It manifests as eternal happiness and trust within.)

- Education to help students develop holistically (e.g. physically, mentally, intellectually, emotionally, socially, culturally, spiritually and creatively)

- Humanized education is not only limited to specialization but to achieving excellence

- Education is not only to get a well-paid job, rather it is to ensure wisdom, value and character so that everyone can live with harmony and peace within, with others and with nature, as well as provide skills for self-reliance and prosperity.

- Education to ensure sustainable and mutually fulfilling development

- Distinction between knowledge and information

- Education is not to accumulate information but to ensure conscience, knowledge and wisdom

- Textbooks as a means not an end

- Establish human-consciousness in all human-actions

- Helping to find the ‘true identity’ of one’s ‘being’ to ensure unity within diversity.

- Transformation of all kinds of divisive sectarian tendencies into human-consciousness.

- Bring about coexistence and resolution based social-consciousness

- Enable every student as equal participants to actualize a truly just and undivided-society- filled with trust, complementariness and mutual fulfillment

- Provide authentic learning experiences and create participatory and cooperative based environments based on inquiry, inclusion and sharing, where each child is valued.

- To help students in their pursuit for personal and academic excellence while connecting them to family, society and nature

- Education leading to self-awareness/clarity, honesty/integrity, responsibility and participation

- Enabling every child with the capacity to realize justice, comprehend truth, and the capability to achieve excellence in one's work and behaviour.

- Help students to investigate and explore their inner self in order to connect with what is innate and intact within them as something, which is universal, natural and all fulfilling for themselves as well as for others.

- Education that encourages the exploration of “what is valuable”? and “what is the value of human beings?”

- Teaching universal values to ensure ‘sustained and collective’ human happiness and peace.

- Enabling intrinsic (absolute/permanent) confidence based on self-worth rather than relative (fleeting) confidence based on comparison/competition.

- Relationships centered rather than resource centered

- Establish harmony between educators, students, and parents/guardians

- Educational institutions to have regular interactions with the larger society

- Ensuring the motivation of education is value and valuation, resolution and prosperity rather than punishment and reward or fear and greed

- Educating about fundamental rights, responsibility and duty

- Eliminate the generation gap by enabling all age groups to recognize and realize their duties and responsibilities.

- Education for proper diet, resolved thought, meaningful lifestyle, positive attitude, and mutually fulfilling relationships with human beings as well as nature in order to ensure optimum health (physical & psychological)

- Education for production with cyclicality (complementariness and mutual enrichment), resource based economics of sustainability leading to harmonious co-existence with nature

- Universal education of humane-culture, humane-laws, and humane-orderliness to realize humane civilization on earth.

- Realizing true freedom/swatantrata (self-organized-ness = being in harmony within) and swarajya (self-extension = living in harmony with all)