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Whole Person Education and its Relationship to the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)
Katherine C. Briggs and Isabel Briggs Myers, a mother-daughter team, developed the life-changing Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI). Both of these women were passionate about learning people's attitudes and investigating why they acted the way they did. Isabel Myers' willingness to do something in order to help people understand each other and prevent violent conflicts was sparked by the tragedies of World War II. The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator was established as a result of the women's hard work, regular test tryouts and revisions, and perseverance in the face of many people's negative attitudes toward their efforts.

For non-psychiatric populations, the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator has become the most commonly used personality test. There are four preferences in the predictor, each with two sides. Extravert vs. Introvert, Sensing vs. Intuitive, Thinking vs. Feeling, and Judgment vs. Perception which are some of the differences. Each individual is assigned a form based on their responses to the MBTI questionnaire. There are sixteen different styles, each of which is a mix of the four preferences and can represent different personality types from different individuals.

Together with the Whole Person Education, the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator allows students to understand their capability to manage themselves as a person who can embrace their social, physical, emotional, and ethical development for the betterment of themselves. Within the walls of the classroom, it teaches basic thinking skills and challenges students to draw their conclusions by having their own way of learning. These different learning styles that we acquire helps us to be unique as an individual as stated in the Myers-Briggs article about personality and learning styles. Whole Person Education is basically, learning as a whole person. It entails much more than just being educated and allowing the learner to be influenced by the body of information. At the heart of the learning process, how the learning is formulated, how it is implemented, how it is reviewed, and most importantly, how it is measured must all be consistent. WPE is a radical approach to how training and education can be addressed and allow for those improvements in our own personality, and the way we learn to be embraced wholeheartedly.

The study of each of the preference scales and their relationships from Extravert vs. Introvert, Sensing vs. Intuitive, Thinking vs. Feeling, and Judgment vs. Perception makes it obvious that the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator has applications to developing different learning styles and improve oneself in taking in information that develops a whole person whether in the classroom or in the society. Because knowing his or her learning patterns allows the student to more accurately predict how he or she will interpret and apply new knowledge to make herself/himself live a thoughtful and prosperous life that cultivates empathy, caring, and service as what a whole person will do. Moreover, recognizing that not all students learn in the same way, and that is very special in his or her learning styles creates a more "conscious" and optimistic learning environment. Thus, efficient and relevant learning can be achieved by nurturing students' strengths, empowering them to learn in their own unique ways, creating a warm, supportive atmosphere for a variety of learning styles and improving their social, spiritual, and intellectual aspects of themselves to become a whole person that promotes whole-person wellness to the people around them.