Education

The Vision of Education: 'Know Thyself'

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Education was conceived by the ancients to be a training of the soul. By that was meant a holistic conception of the human totality as spirit, mind, and body. Plato taught that physical and mental education cannot be divorced from their spiritual telos—that the ultimate end and purpose of education is to seek the excellence and perfection of the individual in the pursuit of Truth, Beauty, and Goodness. That is, to 'Know Thyself'. 

• Spirit: what is lost in today's education, and today's worldview, but which was the bedrock of the ancient worldview, was the understanding that the essence of the human being is a spiritual nature; that is to say that beneath his body and his mind there is an immutable purpose and inviolable sanctity and genius. It is to say that life has an intrinsic purpose and meaning. This axiom lies at the heart of any conception of ethics, morality, and the traditional conception of society. The purpose of education, and the purpose of his life, is then to realise the innate goodness, truthfulness, and inward beauty of the human essence.

• Mind: in the absence of that spiritual essence, and in the subsequent descent into a base material, our notion of the mind has decayed into a purely mechanistic conception of a sort of problem-solving machine which receives sensory inputs and computes routine outputs. It is no wonder then that modern education has lost all creativity, and that the arts and humanities suffer such a drastic decline and disastrous loss. The true purpose of a mental education should serve to enhance one's creative faculties, and equip him with a mastery of language and the foundational sciences, and an understanding of the world as a whole.

• Body: hence physical education and development, guided by intellectual and ethical pursuits. It is the training of the body to serve higher ethical and intellectual purposes. 

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The Structure of Education: Holism and Systematicity

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Our educational vision therefore has two pillars:

• Ethical Vision: At our core, we believe that the world consists of irreducible purposes and meanings. We believe that the purpose of life, and the essence of the human being, is to know himself, and realise his intellectual and spiritual nature. Education is not to merely learn 

• Structural Vision: founded upon the pioneering work of the founder, we employ a holistic and integrated systems approach, founded upon work in mathematical, geneaological, and ontological epistemology.

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