Holistic Approach in Education of Geido

艺妓教育作为日本的一种教育制度，作为一种传统的日本教育范式一直存在着。它与西方教育范式下的现代学校教育体系有着很大的不同。从“整体论”Vantage角度考察，日本艺妓教育的特点可以说是以获得专业知识和技能为目的的“做”学和以佛教为基础的“功”学两种本质上不相容的理论的平衡结合。通过对不同地区的传统表演艺术及其历史的研究，艺妓的这些特征已经成功地在研究中得到了展示。

Geido, an education system in Japan, has been persisting as a traditional Japanese educational paradigm. It is quite different in its style from the modern school education system that comes from the Western educational paradigm. Observed from the vantage point of "holism," features of geido education in Japan can be described as being in a well-balanced combination of two intrinsically-incompatible theories, which are do theory that aims at acquiring knowledge and skills of the specialty and kokoro theory that is based on Buddhism. These characters of geido have been successfully laid out in the study through examinations into examples of traditional performing arts in various regions and into their histories.