http://www.storytellingmonk.org/ref/quotes/educ.htm
Education, education, education alone! Traveling through many cities of
Europe and observing in them the comforts and education of even the poor
people, there was brought to my mind the state of our own poor people, and I
used to shed tears. What made the difference? Education was the answer I got.
Through education comes faith in one's self, and through faith in one's own
self the inherent Brahman is waking up in them, while the Brahman in us is
gradually becoming dormant.
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Education is not the amount of information that is put in your brain and runs
riot there undigested all your life. We must have life-building, man-making,
character-making and assimilation of ideas. If education is identical with
libraries are the greatest sages in the world and encyclopedias are rishis
(sages).
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We must have a hold on the spiritual and secular education of the nation. Do
you understand that?... The education that you are getting now has some good
points, but it has a tremendous disadvan­tage which is so great that the
good things are all weighed down. In the first place it is not a man-making
education. it is merely and entirely a negative education. A negative education
or any training that is based on negation, is worse than death.
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Life is a series of fights and disillusionments... The secret of life is not
enjoyment but education through experience. But, alas, we are called off the
moment we begin really to learn.
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The ideal of all education should be man-making. But instead of that, we are
always trying to polish up the outside. What use is polishing the outside when
there is no inside? The end of all training is to make the man grow.
Compare the great teachers of religion with the great philosophers. The
philosophers scarcely influenced anybody's inner man, and yet they wrote
marvelous books. The religion teachers, on the other hand, moved countries in
their lifetimes. The difference was made by personality. In the philosopher it
is the faint personality that influences. In the great prophets, it is
tremendous. In the former we touch intellect, in the latter we touch life.
-From "Realization and its methods."
Umesh Sharma
Washington D.C.
1-202-215-4328 [Cell]
Ed.M. - International Education Policy
Harvard Graduate School of Education,
Harvard University,
Class of 2005
http://www.uknow.gse.harvard.edu/index.html (Edu info)
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/ (Management Info)
www.gse.harvard.edu/iep (where the above 2 are used )
http://jaipurschool.bihu.in/
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