VICASA

EDUCATION

Teachers as Critically Reflexive Practitioners

Buddhism is the greatest educational system; incorporating Buddhist teachings into education is the best way to foster human wisdom.

Education is not just about going to school and getting a degree. It's about widening your knowledge and absorbing the truth about life.

Should you follow Western education?

Western education essentially delves into student psychology so that educators can become supporters, instructors, and inspirers to facilitate the best conditions for students to develop according to their wishes, interests, and talents. In lieu of teachers being almost completely dominant and students just passively listening, Western education highlights student-centered and active learning, aiming to attract student participation through various classroom activities. Therefore, when Asians study Western education. It is like learning about educational psychology, not merely investigating education.

If possible, educators should engage in the Western education program to have the opportunity to be exposed to purely fresh educational knowledge is like a breath of fresh air blowing into the understanding that has been built up since childhood. Then, instructors can integrate the outstanding education of the West with the traditional Asian approach to generate the best version of secular and/or Buddhist education.

Sayalay Vijjāñāṇī

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