Mission
- To promote the pursuit of happiness in educational institutions
- To promote a diversity of views on the pursuit of happiness
- To explore the ethical as well as psychological roots of human happiness
- To encourage critical thinking
If the pursuit of happiness is a basic right, it follows that we should be teaching about it in our educational institutions.
As members of a global community, we should enrich our views on human well-being through the study of global perspectives.
Positive psychology, the new “Science of Happiness,” has provided us with new insights into human well-being based on concrete data. What is remarkable is that the empirically based insights of the positive psychologists resonate with the experiential and spiritual wisdom of great thinkers such as Confucius, Buddha and Aristotle.
Through the study of happiness we can learn how to compare and contrast perspectives from East and West, from the social sciences and humanities, on an issue that is immediately appealing and central to our lives.
