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Caring for New Life: Essays on Holistic Education (Foundations of Holistic Education Series)

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Author, educator, editor and publisher Ron Miller uses his unique talents to present a brilliant overview of holistic education as a radical alternative to the assumptions, purposes and methods of conventional schooling. Caring for New Life discusses fulfillment of life's true purpose and delivers a series of essays that offer beams of light that illuminate educating our children in other and better ways.

While current educational systems seem to focus on the individual and a goal of financial success, Caring for New Life presents the views of prominent educators with a global view that include the whole self, spiritual as well as physical. For instance, Maria Montessori said, "The world was not created for us to enjoy, but we are created to evolve the cosmos."

Mr. Miller says, "Holism asserts that everything exists in relationship, in context of connection and meaning--and that any change or event causes a realignment, however slight, throughout the entire pattern." thus holism brings together rather than separates as "...a spiritual quest for compassion and peace."

Caring for New Life assembles the words and thoughts of Thoreau, Steiner, Wilber, Krishnamurti and Palmer (to name only a few), that education should serve purposes other than national defense and the manpower requirements of the corporate economy. Ron Miller cogently and effectively presents the logic of and the need for a more liberating educational system.

Here is an enlightening book that probes and asks fundamental questions that cause the reader to ponder about the human consequences of our educational policies. In this reviewer's opinion, the hallmark of a great book is that it gets you to think. Caring for New Life is a great book!