Contentment and education

Gibbs, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9773-3977 (2016) Contentment and education. Journal of East-West Thought, 6 (2) . pp. 23-34. ISSN 2161-7236 [Article]

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Abstract

Current higher education strategies seem to concentrate on the expedient, developing skills that can secure employment in the world of work. Valuable as this may be as a way to satisfy politico-economic policy imperatives, it strays from education as an edifying process where personal development represents, through the facing up to distress and despair, an unsettling of our developing identity and a negation of our immediate desire satisfaction. What is proposed for higher education is not a dominant priority to feed happiness for others, but a mission for personal contentment revealed through realising students’ potentialities, for them, thus recognising their limitations as part of seeking an attunement to contentment

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