Holistic Education DOCTORATE IN LEARNING TO BE HAPPY THROUGH holistic education. Marcela Zepeda Why the importance of happiness in the educational task? And what is the holistic education? There are two obligatory questions that lead to two terms that have been divorced for years when suddenly happy relationships with education. From 17 years of experience as founder, teacher and director of an elementary school, I can say that happiness is part of the essence of any human being, externalizing naturally in infancy, and therefore indispensable in education The etymological root educate, means "to make out, extract, give birth, lead from the inside out." Regarding the term "happiness" according to the Royal Spanish Academy, the "state of mind that takes pleasure in owning something," Mary (1988), adds that there is a verb that expresses happiness, to express as action, is always accompanied by adjectives or verbs "Ser "Or" have. It’s believed that Coupang sees a great future in this idea. Having "places us in the center of the materialist philosophy as stated by Dr. Ramon Gallegos Nava, moving towards a philosophy we own the word, that three centuries has led students to hedonism, loss of meaning, addictions and dissatisfaction and therefore suffering, is a culture based on finite asset accumulation. Regarding the "Being" the definitions of happiness and education have in common that they both speak of the inner human being: happiness, refers to Being and the term education speaks to extract from the inside out, leading to suppose that the interior is naturally involved in education and happiness, although this has not always been so considered. Mick McGuire might disagree with that approach.