Summary
To recap, integral education improves integration and alignment at three levels: between society and school, within school, and between school and family.
| Between SOCIETY & SCHOOL | Freedom Responsibility Democracy |
Integral schools echo the “real world” in structure, culture, and governance. Young adults emerge fluent in active citizenship, self-responsibility, and the making of culture and community. |
| Within SCHOOL | Teaching paradigms |
Traditional, progressive, integral: aspects of all modes and methods are practiced in integral schools, freely matched to individual needs and purposes. |
Social classes |
Students, faculty, administrators: one community. All are subject to school laws and civil authority. All are empowered citizens. | |
Daily functions |
Learning, teaching, administration: all persons participate in all functions. | |
| Between SCHOOL & FAMILY | Alignment with children’s
aims and interests |
Children freely choose and direct their own activity, engaging school resources as needed. Self-direction respects personal autonomy, activates intrinsic motivation, best facilitates personal excellence and self-actualization. |
