Passion University: Education Revolution

Education Revolution

Education Revolution Passion University is adapting to a general global transformation, by leading a corresponding transformation in education. The basic format and objectives of mainstream education have not been changed for hundreds of years. However, our generation experiences social, economic, spiritual, environmental, and technological transformations, presenting new challenges that cannot be adequately addressed by the current education system. At Passion University we study these transformations and adapt our educational concepts accordingly to satisfy these essential needs.

Transformational Trend	Old Paradigm	Passion University
Accessibility to Information Information had been a premium asset. In order to succeed in life, you needed to know many things and have many skills. Not anymore. Most information today is becoming digitized and stored on numerous interconnected databases. Within a few years, most people will have immediate direct access to these databases through affordable personal wireless devices. Practically anything you want to know you'll be able to find on these databases, as you interact with them using voice, body gestures, video, and natural language. It will be like having a full-time personal assistant who knows everything and helps you every moment wherever you are.	The role of education was to teach information, knowledge, and skills. The main goals of most educational curriculums have been exposure of the students to information in class or through textbooks, requesting them to memorize it, and testing them for accurate regurgitation of the material.	Preparing students for successful living in the Internet age requires coping with the vast information around us. The art of life is not how to find information, but how to not be overwhelmed and desensitized by the information that we are bombarded with. Passion University provides training and tools to enhance relaxation, mental clarity, focus, and intuitive approaches. It teaches students how to draw wisdom within the infinite information at their disposal.
Emotional Intelligence Over Intellectual Ability There's a growing realization that emotional intelligence is more important for happy and successful life than intellectual capacity. In the past, people valued those who were smart, who had high IQs. Recent studies show that successful people in general are those who have abilities to recognize their emotions, manage them, and use them to their benefit.	One of education's main goals was to teach students how to memorize and process information.	Passion University emphasizes emotional skills at all levels of our professional and academic programs. Students are encouraged to become aware of their emotions and recognize them. Students are given tools to manage their emotions. Passion Training's workshops create a safe and supportive setting for students to express and release difficult emotions, and we create specific processes where students can learn how to integrate their emotions with their other faculties. Emotions are our best allies, and we can use them to gain intuition, inspire us, fill us with joy, and strengthen our immune system.
Adaptable Educational Formats Technology enables customized education for content, format, time, location, and curriculum.	In the past, the educational process usually involved a full-time status at an educational institute, structured class format that students were required to attend at specific time and location, and homogeneous material to all students for a specific course. Instructors used tests to evaluate students based on a specific set of questions and expected answers.	Passion University offers most of its courses through the Internet. Students can learn any material, any time, anywhere, at their own pace, using a format that suits their needs, interests, and abilities. Using interactive multimedia and personal consulting sessions, students worldwide can connect directly with their instructors during the course offerings. Student's progress can be evaluated through intelligent software tools. Students are required to physically attend only the experiential parts of their courses, and these hands-on workshops can be concise time-wise enabling students to use their time more effectively.
Educational Collaboration Knowledge, experience, and life prespectives are strongly related. To promote global understanding and cooperation, there's a growing need today for educational collaboration worldwide.	Most Universities require students to take the major part of their coursework at a single academic institute.	Passion University encourages academic collaboration and cooperation, and allows students to take some of their course work at other approved academic institutes, as long as they meet Passion's program and degree requirements. Thus, Passion University's programs span an educational network that promotes passion life and holistic education.
Flexible Definition of Professions Shorter term, multiple professions and skills. In 1940 people held on average 2 jobs during their entire lifetimes, and very few held onto more than one job at a time. In 2000, that number has risen to 14 and growing number of people have more than one sounce of income. In today's fast-changing technological world and economical structure, professions are coming and going quickly. How many web designers were there in 1990? None. How many anti aging medicine doctors were there in 1990? None. On the other hand, today there are many unemployed Cobol programmers and travel agents. New computer languages and internet-based travel sites have put them out of business. Also, in the past an occupation was associated with a specific physical location, limiting the typical worker to a single location and occupation. Telecommuting, and the fact that most jobs in the future would be done through wireless Internet connections, will allow individuals to enjoy and utilize their various talents through several occupations concurrently.	Most universities and academic programs prepare students for a life-long profession.	Passion University's programs give students the foundations for successful careers, developing the student's learning abilities, adaptability, emotional intelligence, inter-personal communications, personal and career management, and working with the basic elements of life in any environment. Passion University's graduates have the experience and skills to better adapt to career and life changes, and to take advantage of economic and technological changes.
Mind - Body Integration Through millions of years of evolution, the human mind and body evolved together, reflecting our environmental needs. During our generation there have been drastic changes in the ways we interact with our environment. We no longer need the full functionality of our body, and instead use technology, which requires minimal use of the body, and relies heavily on the mind. We no longer listen to subtle sounds in nature, trying to locate a running fox between the bushes, directing our arrow towards it, and shoot quickly and accurately to get him. Instead, we sit most of the day in front of computer monitors, our fingers tap on a keyboard, and our main activities are mental processing. The mind and the body lose their essential coordination, and they no longer function in tandem to facilitate a healthy mind-body system.	Most Universities and academic programs do not recognize the body as part of the individual that's essential for successful life. In their perspective, all knowledge is mental, and education is basically a cerebral process.	Passion University recognizes that education is a mind/body process. Our emphasis is not just on acquiring knowledge but connecting it with direct experience, which includes physical feelings and sensations. Coordination among our mind/body faculties, and communications between them, enriches both and brings depth and additional dimensions to our human expressions.
Global Cooperation Social, political, and economic structures have been hierarchical. A leader or a president managed organization and societies top-down. People used to belong to a specific organization or society. They learned to receive instructions from their supervisor, and instructed their constituents. Due to technology, most people can communicate with each other directly, thus creating a network of many individuals. Each individual shares, gives, and receives as much as they want from anyone else, fostering cooperation, cross pollination, and effective resource sharing.	Education has prepared individuals for goal-oriented top-down management.	Passion University prepares students to interact with others as peers in a global network of people who support and cooperate with each other. Linear thinking and focus on operations are replaced by the flexible dynamic flow of human interaction.
Cultural Integration People have been accustomed to work and interact in their communities with those who are similar to themselves. Thanks to technology and internet-based conferencing tools, we can now interact with many people around the globe.	Education has prepared people for result-oriented achievements based on focused efforts directed to specific goals. People tended to look for others similar to themselves, with whom they had common language, cultural background, and similar perspectives on life.	Passion Training encourages students to leverage the differences that we see around us. People from different backgrounds can enrich each other with fresh perspectives. Cooperation among people from different cultural backgrounds adds new dimensions and creates synergy among its communities.
Environmental impact Earth has been an infinite well of resources. Especially in the past 100 years, Humanity took from it whatever we needed, and destroyed what we didn't need. Today's crowded planet, heavy industry, and already crumbling natural resources, cannot withstand the fast pace of additional contamination and pollution.	Use Earth as much as we can. Treat each problematic area individually, and do the minimum required to restore and preserve it, assuming no other economic or political issues are at stake.	Passion University's approach to Earth is as a living organism. Earth, its planets, animals and people, its air, water, mountains, seas, deserts, and forests all relate to each other. They are part of a bigger organism, Gaia, whose parts need to be well balanced for the whole to function.