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Students should have in their hands the future of this
country. Where ever they gather they should see that there is calm
and peace and that the community respects them. The place where
students gather should become a symbol of peace and happiness. This
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Education is for life not for mere living. There are crores
of people who are not educated in this country and who are still
living a good life. Education should enable you to be an ideal and
develop into an ideal example. Education should enable you to
distinguish between right and wrong. It should promote humility in
you, should enable you to become more humble than an uneducated
person. It should enable to serve your parents and your country and
your service should become a selfless service.
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Education must instill the fundamental human values; it must
broaden the vision to include the entire world and all mankind.
Education must equip man to live happily, without making others
unhappy, to evaluate things, pleasure and possessions correctly and
without prejudice, and fix one's attention ever on the Highest and
the most Precious Achievement of all, the Atmic Victory. The
spiritual stream must flow in the heart as the source and spring of
all endeavour.
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Education is being confused with the acquisition of verbal
scholarship. This is wrong. Education has to open the doors of the
mind. Many describe science today as a powerful acquisition, but
science holds before mankind a great opportunity, that is all. It
cannot be as great a power as it is imagined to be. If it is devoid
of character, it brings disaster. It can then cause evil and
wickedness. Intelligence can be found to be very high among clever
thieves. So, too scientific knowledge can be misused for destructive
purposes.
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The
marks of true education are selflessness, humility and
unostentatiousness. The ethos of Bharat are based on righteousness
and justice and an inherent goodness of character. The edifice of
right education rests on four pillars: Self-control,
Self-confidence, Self-support and Self-sacrifice. Students today are
totally oblivious to self-support. How, then can they achieve
Self-control? Education should aim not merely at making men human,
but should try to make them perfect human beings. We may not have
all the physical means necessary to protect the country. But if we
stand by truth, we shall be saving the whole world.
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Education has two
important characteristics. One is exposition of facts relating to
any subject. The other is the unfolding of the individual's
personality. The first is concerned with the matter. The second is
with energy. Education is a combination of the two. It is a
combination of worldly and spiritual knowledge. Education cannot be
confined to stuffing the head. It has to melt the heart, refine it
and turn it Godwards. It is not enough to make a man of the student.
He has to be transformed into an ideal human being. He must be made
compassionate. Every effort should be made to utilise education for
the purpose of divinising man
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