About 50 years ago, a small but dedicated group of people began challenging American society’s attitudes toward food production. The prevailing opinion at the time was that vegetables should be judged primarily by their outward appearance. Bigger and redder tomatoes were deemed more desirable, and so American agriculture brought in the chemical fertilizers and pesticides that would support this type ... Read More
The emphasis throughout this second six-year phase of education should be on teaching through the feelings and the emotions, and particularly on developing the finer feelings. For it is during these years that a child can begin to direct his emotions constructively, instead of letting them rule him. Swami Kriyananda in his book Education for Life During my first months ... Read More
Before Yogananda went to the United States, he spent four years in India developing what he called ‘How-to-Live Schools’. In Chapter 27 of his Autobiography of a Yogi, he wrote: ‘The ideal of an all-sided education for youth had always been close to my heart. I saw clearly the arid results of ordinary instruction, aimed only at the development of body and intellect. ... Read More
