| Swami Vivekananda |
| Education and Society |
| We want that education by which CHARACTER is formed, STRENGTH of MIND is INCREASED, the INTELLECT is EXPANDED, and by which one can STAND on one's OWN FEET. |
| Education is not the amount of information that is put into your brain and runs rot there, undigested all your life. We must have LIFE-BUILDING, MAN-MAKING,CHARACTER-MAKING, assimilation of ideas. If you have ASSIMILATED five ideas and made them your LIFE and CHARACTER, you have more education than any man who has got byheart a whole library. |
| Every one wants to command, and no one wants to obey; and this owing to the absence of that wonderful brahmacharya system of yore. First, LEARN TO OBEY.The command will come by itself. Always first learn to be a servant, and then you will be fit to be a master. |
| Give up the awful disease that is creeping into our national blood, that idea of ridiculing everything, that loss of SERIOUSNESS. Give that up. Be STRONG and have this SRADDHA, and everything else is bound to follow. |