The Universal Education Foundation (UEF)

The Universal Education Foundation (UEF) is an advocacy foundation that works in co-creative partnerships towards Learning for Well-being with a spotlight on children and youth. The education of children occurs both within the school environment and in every aspect of a child's life. Education is thus the responsibility of all and needs to be undertaken with greater awareness by the larger community. For the last 200 years, many prominent philosophers, writers and educators have criticized the form public schooling has taken, and insisted that education should be understood as the art of cultivating the moral, emotional, physical, psychological and spiritual dimensions of the developing child. We believe that children who experience a greater sense of holistic well-being (physical, emotional, mental social and spiritual) and understand its components are: more able to learn and assimilate information in effective ways; more likely to engage in healthy and fulfilling social behaviors; more likely to invest in their own and others' well being and in the sustainability of the planet, as they take up their social, professional and leadership roles in adulthood.