Introduction - Integral Education Portal

Launching Integral Education Portal

Dear friends, Greetings from Auroville! On the occasion of Sri Aurobindo’s 148th birth anniversary, we are happy to launch The Integral Education Portal. For those who are curious about the history of integral education here is an 18 minute video for you. Email

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What is Integral Education?

Education to be complete must have five principal aspects corresponding to the five principal activities of the human being the physical, the vital the mental, the psychic and the spiritual.

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Why Integral Education?

Imagine an education where we are able to grow and develop integrally without losing contact with their souls; an education not for passing examinations or obtaining certificates and posts but to enrich existing faculties and bring forth new ones.

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Introduction to Integral Education

Integral Education was developed by the Mother and Sri Aurobindo to prepare humanity for an evolutionary transformation to embody a divine consciousness and divine life upon earth.

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An International University Centre

These three articles were first published in the Bulletin of Physical Education (later renamed Bulletin of Sri Aurobindo International centre of Education) between 1949 and 1955.

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The Science of Living

By The Mother, Bulletin, November 1950

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Education

An essay by The Mother, Bulletin, February 1951

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Three Principles of True Teaching

The first principle of true teaching is that nothing can be taught. The second principle is that the mind has to be consulted in its own growth. The third principle of education is to work from the near to the far, from that which is to that which shall be.