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Human Values and Ethics
Human Values and Ethics
Teachers in
imparting
Man-making
and
Nation-building
Education
Let me start with a
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When a plant is
withering
and
dying
is it better to water
the leaves or the
roots?
The answer to this
with reference to
Indian life lies in
providing our
children with value
based education.
Life withers when truth is
lost and society decays
when dharma is lost.
We have to enliven truth
and dharma through
proper educational and
religious activities and
aspirations.
Dharma sustains
universe
and all that is in it.
In scientific terms if Dharma
upholds the
interconnectedness
Interrelatedness
and
interdependence
Dharma is responsible for an individual’s
Abhyudaya
(achievement in individual material life)
and
Nishreyas
(establishment of awareness of Truth in
oneself)
Swami Vivekananda's
definition of Education:
Swami Vivekananda's
concept of Education
“My idea of education is Gurugriha.
Without the personal life of the teacher,
there would be no education. One should live from his
very boyhood with one
whose character is a blazing fire
and should have before him
a living example of the highest teaching.
In our country the imparting of the knowledge has
always been through men of renunciation.
The charge of imparting knowledge should again fall
upon the shoulders of tyagis.
Swami Vivekananda's
concept of Education
“Education is not the amount of information
that is put into your brain and runs riot
there undigested all your life. We must have
life-building, man-making, character making
assimilation of ideals. We want education by
which character is formed, strength of mind
is increased, the intellect is expanded, by
which one can stand on one’s feet. What we
want is Western science coupled with
Vedanta, Brahmacharya as the guiding
motto and also Shraddha and
faith in one’s own life”.
Swami Vivekananda’s
definition of religion:
It is thus implied that there is
Divinity all around us and
through Education and Religion
we should train ourselves to see
perfection and divinity in the
whole of creation. Only such an
Education can build up
character and manhood and
offer scope for infinite
expansion and evolution of the
human personality.
There is a spark of the
infinite power Satchidananda in
every being.
Realisation of this Self or Truth
is the ultimate goal of life.
Education should lead to the
realisation of this Truth - through
training, pursuit of knowledge and
self-effort
Prahlada,
Dhruva
Shibi