The title of this
book can be understood in two ways, both of them intentionally so.
Primarily, my purpose has been to recommend a system of education that
will prepare children for meeting life’s challenges, and not only fit
them for employment or for intellectual pursuits. I have also wanted,
however, to help the reader to see the whole of life, beyond the years
spent in school, as education.
For if indeed, as
most people deeply believe, life has purpose and meaning, then its
goal must be to educate us ever-more fully to that meaning. And the
true goal of the education we receive during our school years must be
to help prepare us for that lifelong learning process.
Introduction
Chapter 1: Success Is Achieving What One REALLY
Wants
Chapter 2: Education Should Be Experiential, Not
Merely Theoretical
Chapter 3: Reason Must Be Balanced by Feeling
Chapter 4: How Progressive, Really, Is
“Progressive”?
Chapter 5: Every Child’s Real Self
Chapter 6: Punishment and Reward
Chapter 7: To What End?
Chapter 8: Humanizing the Process
Chapter 9: The Importance, to Understanding, of
Experience
Chapter 10: True Education Is Self-Education
Chapter 11: Progressive Development
Chapter 12: Every Child an Einstein?
Chapter 13: The Case against Atheism
Chapter 14: The Tools of Maturity
Chapter 15: The Stages of Maturity
Chapter 16: The Foundation Years
Chapter 17: The Feeling Years
Chapter 18: The Willful Years
Chapter 19: The Thoughtful Years
Chapter 20: The Curriculum
Chapter 21: Ananda Schools
Chapter 22: Making It Happen
Education
for Life: