Maharishi School has a carefully structured program that combines the curriculum of the Victorian Department of Education, with Consciousness-Based Education (CBE).

Consciousness-Based Education is an approach which:

• nurtures the happiness and inner creative genius of every student
• directly develops qualities such as learning ability, creativity, confidence, self-esteem, and moral reasoning
• supports the principle of “unity in diversity”, encouraging the individual growth of each student along with growth of ideal social behaviour – tolerance, respect for others etc.
• fosters growth in the direction of higher states of consciousness: the ability to think and act spontaneously in accord with natural law

Parents, educators and students have long felt something was missing in education. How many teachers and parents have had the experience of their students asking the question “What has this got do with me, with my life?” After the early delightful years when a child’s natural curiosity about the world leads him or her on a busy voyage of discovery, it is too often the case that at some point students start to feel disaffected from school because they can’t find the answer to this question “What has this got to do with me?”

Consciousness -Based Education fills this gap by providing the element missing from education. Development of the knower, development from within is essential, rather than the conventional approach of seeing the student as a container of knowledge, to be filled with an ever-expanding list of information. For education to be complete, it must include development of consciousness and the achievement of higher states of consciousness. This has been missing in education for many centuries past. Consciousness-Based Education is now available to provide the whole development of the student.