Holistique movement
The Holisitique movement (from Gaullican: "Holistic") is an Educational system and philosophy which seeks to make accessible a strong education and development ordered towards the perfecting of the whole human person. It advocates a form of liberal education, emphasising that humans are only made truly free through faith in God, the pursuit of speculative knowledge, the freedom from vice through virtue, and healthy and prudent living. It derives much of its intellectual inspiration from Scholasticism and medieval education, while also at the same time taking inspiration from Estmerish Muscular Sotirianity. It is a fundamentally Solarian Catholic movement, although it did inspire other similar movements in other religious groups. It is notably characterised by a rejection of research-based and practical institutions as the primary educational model in favour of schools ordered towards the human person.
The movement was founded shortly after the end of the Capois Rebellion by Charles Saint-Pierre, a Chloéois of Bahian descent, and Archbishop Jean-Baptiste d'Aste, the Archbishop of Port de la Sainte. The first goal of the movement began as a means to educate free blacks in Sainte-Chloé, sponsored and funded by the resources of the Catholic Church on the island. The Church saw the opportunity as a chance for education and evangelisation, while the colonial administration thought it would allow for better integration of the free blacks into a Gaullican society. It quickly spread and grew across the whole island, also spreading schools to poorer white communities on the islands. It caused the growth and development of educational institutions of all levels, and eventually came to dominate most of the schools on the island. It also had an impact on many of the schools across the Viceroyalty of the New Aurean, of which Sainte-Chloé was the chief island. The movement was also important for establishing or popularising certain sports, such as baseball and Arucian football. The rise of functionalism caused a division in the movement, which lead to some accusations of the movement's association with the ideology. Many of the schools in the Sainte-Chloé still claim to follow the educational philosophy of the movement.
However, the movement has faced criticism on various different accounts. Opponents of the education have criticised it for indoctrinating and for using outdated methodology, for "whitewashing" the island's Bahian population, or for being functionalist in nature. Supporters of the education have denied said claims, and uphold that it had a fundamentally good outcome on the country as a whole.
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