7/27/2019 Education - Right Way
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Education: The Right way
For a moment forget that you are all teachers. You are members
of a great republic,
fathers and mothers of your children.All of you have lived
through 32 years ofindependence.Is there anyone in this assembly
who is satisfied with the progress this
country has made,anyone among us who feels proud that we are
preparing a world for our
children that we feel fit to give as a heritage?
Ours is a chaotic nation screaming at all times,with no feeling
of nationalism abiding in
our hearts.In such an atmosphere can any college or school
function smoothly ? It is our
leaders who are fermenting this disaster, and all for what?
Votes. Millions of fathers andmothers must be viewing this
situation with depair and gloom.I too would like to join the
depairers and slowly sink into the abyss of helless
dejection.For one single individual
cannot improve it all, however clearly he may see the
situation.
An easy course for one to adopt would be to conduct a parellel
revolution,found and
sustain a party even if it be at the cost of many lives! The
alternate course would be the
constructive though gradual process,the evolutionary one.
How does one go about this?
Todays middle-aged people are busy amassing wealth for their own
security.Theinnocent children grow up this cess-pool and watch the
frenzied despair all around. The
first eruption from this contagion of despair is
indiscipline.Unable to cope with the
outside situation,they take recourse to drugs.
The only sane method to solve this problemis to educate these
children in the right
way,instilling in them feelings of self respect and national
pride.And the only ones whocan do it are dedicatedsacrificing
teachers who work selflessly in the theatre of school to
perform this delicate and all-important operations.And the work
must be done at the
primary school level for by the time the youngsters reach the
high school,their ideas andvalues are set. We are cautious in
picking our students since one bad apple is enough tospoil the
entire box.As far our teachers,we have never insisted that they
should have a
spiritual background,only that they should complete and pass the
lesson course within
three years of joining.
Now the time has to come to share this vision of mine with you
.Until now what we made
our schools and colleges different was solely the physical
aspects-the idols,the altars andcelebrations of auspicious days.
This in itself is incomplete.If in the name of secularism
our own culture is being choked up,we have to resort to other
means to revive it.
In our institutions we wont have classes in religion or moral
instructions; we will haveexercises in
meditation,japa,mantra,prayers,and explain the psychological need
for all
these.Through these students minds will quitened ,power of
concentration will increase
and consequently ,their performance will improve .Later,at the
college level,we explainto them the application of vedanta for
improved efficiency in work. But this can be done
only when you know it your self.Books this can be done only when
you know it your-
self.Books like Meditation and life will explain
everything.Study them in your leaisurehours and teach it to
students .Call it Meditation 1,Meditation 2,etc., like we have
