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HOLISTIC EDUCATION, IN A TECHNOLOGICAL WORLD P E G G Y P E L O N I S : P R E S I D E N T , A C S A T H E N S It takes holistic education, educating the mind, the body, and the soul. And what do I mean by that? It's really important today, and as we talked about earlier, that change is happening at a very rapid pace. Technology is advancing quickly, and artificial intelligence is entering our lives. Change is a constant in our lives. We were called on to respond to change just recently with COVID. The children in the world looked to the adults for the answers, and the adults had no answers. The adults looked to the authorities for the answers, and the authorities had no answers because this change took us by surprise. Change is going to continue, and it's happening on multiple levels continuously. What's happening in the world of education is the global economy is creating higher levels of competition. Requiring higher levels of expertise, requiring people who know themselves better, who understand the world better, who are able to manage themselves, be self-directed, be more independent and knowledgeable at the same time. This means that we have to train young people at a higher level of mental complexity earlier. Of course, this places a lot of psychological stress on students, but people are very resilient, and young people are very resilient. CATALYZE MAGAZINE | 14
HOLISTIC EDUCATION, IN A TECHNOLOGICAL WORLD, CONTINUED... We want to be able to teach them not only to respond and cope with change, as we did with the pandemic. We want to teach them to be able to navigate change and most importantly, to shape change, to initiate change so that we don't, and they don't become victims of change. How do we do this? First of all, of course, academics are very important. Not just math, not just science, not just technology, but the classics. Philosophy, literature, music, and art, these are things that teach us how to think critically. We need to know how to synthesize information. We need to know how to make decisions about things, and we need to make decisions through an ethical lens if we have any hope of improving life and living on the planet. So when we talk about educating kids holistically, we talk about providing the skills and the knowledge so that they can succeed in a very competitive world, but we're also talking about creating conscious, responsible citizens. People who will take that knowledge and skill and turn it into action in the world. That means being able to cultivate compassion, being able to cultivate psychological muscle, so that they can turn all of these things into positive action to improve life and living on the planet. CATALYZE MAGAZINE | 14
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