The Common Vision

The Common Vision: Parenting and Educating for Wholeness

Presents the teachings about child raising and education of Rudolf Steiner, Sri Aurobindo Ghose, and Hazrat Inayat Khan. The book reveals the powerful similarities among these three teachings, which together describe a common vision of human nature and human growth from birth to age twenty-one. This common vision provides parents with a profound understanding of children as whole beings and of their capacities and needs physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually. It offers teachers and parents a detailed description of what children need in their schooling at various ages if they are to grow into wholeness and manifest their potential.

About the Author

David Marshak currently teaches in the School of Education at Seattle University. He received his doctorate in education from Harvard University and has taught young people and adults in many different settings. He has studied the teachings of Rudolf Steiner, Sri Aurobindo Ghose, and Hazrat Inayat Khan and their application in families and schools for more than fifteen years.