Consciousness-Based Education - Maharishi University of ...

Harnessing the laws of nature—maximum success to governmentThese vouchers could be applied toward any school—public, private, orparochial—provided that school maintains high academic performanceon standardized national tests. The free-market competition that thisvoucher system will engender would provide a much-needed incentivefor fundamental educational reform.The incorporation of consciousness-based education, which combineseducational technologies that unfold full human intelligence withthe latest unified-field-based curriculum innovations and instructionalmethodologies, will allow any government to take full advantage ofthe profound laws of nature governing human development. This trulymodern approach promises to fulfill the historic purpose of educationenvisioned by America’s Founders—life free from mistakes andproblems, fully aligned with the evolutionary power of natural law. Itwill put an end to the widespread problems in education experiencedby almost every country, and fully harness the nation’s most preciousresource—the full creative potential of its citizens.3. CrimeAn effective criminal justice and criminal rehabilitation system shouldbe capable of producing a crime-free nation—a nation where citizens livefully in accord with natural law and national law, where people freely moveon the streets without fear, and where the citizens live and work togetherharmoniously for their own fulfillment and for the good of the nation.The ProblemCrime costs Americans an estimated $500 billion annually. 8 The U.S.has the highest violent crime rate of any Western country, despite incarcerationrates seven-times higher than the Western European average.The FBI’s most recent crime report concluded that “every Americanhas a realistic chance of being murdered because of the random nature[that] crime has assumed.”America’s criminal justice system is under constant strain. Courts,police, probation and parole agencies, and prisons are overworked andinadequate to deal with the high level of crime (Donziger, 1996).8In a report for the Department of Justice, Mark A. Cohen, Ph.D., an economist at VanderbiltUniversity, estimated that crime costs the U.S. approximately $500 billion annually (Butternfield,1996). However, estimates of the annual cost of crime in the U.S. run as high as $700billion (Gest, 1994).199