Funny thing Umesh, is that you are proving some
of SV's points in ways that I could not have :-).
See , Umesh, an ability to regurgitate words of
wisdom, or recite facts and figures does not
constitute education or learning, just like
acquiring of high-faluting degrees from pedigreed
institutions or otherwise.
At 10:06 AM -0700 6/11/07, umesh sharma wrote:
<http://www.storytellingmonk.org/ref/quotes/educ.htm>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
disadvan°©tage 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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