ABSTRACT
[Abstract: Holistic Education has a long history. Indigenous peoples with their view of life as interdependent and sacred can be seen as the first holistic educators. The period that is called the Axial age was a time when great teachers such as Lao Tse, Buddha, Confucius, and Socrates emphasized the importance of compassion, which is central to holistic education. In the eighteenth century, Rousseau, Froebel, and Pestalozzi focused on the goodness and wholeness of children and how these qualities could be developed in educational settings. The pedagogies of Transcendentalists (e.g., Thoreau, Alcott) in the nineteenth century can be viewed holistically. The twentieth century gave birth to Waldorf education and Montessori education. Holistic education as a term and movement came into being in the 1980s with the publication of The Holistic Education Review and The Holistic Curriculum.]
