The second objective of education is to form minds which can be criticized, they can verify and not accept everything offered. The greatest danger today is of slogans, collective opinions, thoughts facts. We must be able to resist these individually, they are critical, distinguishing between what is proven and what is not. So we need students to be active, learn to discover for themselves, partly by his own spontaneous activity and partly by the material we give them, they learn early to tell what is verifiable and what is simply an idea I came suddenly. By the same author: Sen. Sherrod Brown. Spirituality implies that we are embedded in a harmonious universe and has purpose. In other words, we are connected to something beyond ourselves and we are not isolated egos fighting in an empty universe. The greatest spiritual reality which we are part has different names depending on the perspective or spiritual tradition, teachers set the tone and atmosphere of the classroom. If the spirit of student needs to be nurtured and developed, then follows that is collapsed and impoverished, then there is very little chance that the spirit of the student will be properly cared for.
Teachers who can bring their authentic presence to the classroom every day, who can not bring themselves empathically with their students are ill-equipped to give of themselves or respond appropriately to the needs of students. Holistic Education and Teacher Contemplative Practitioner. In both courses, I require students to meditate every day, for about six weeks. I ask the students to do meditation because I believe that teaching is done rather when work from our heart rather than from our egos.