Is Education meaning A Certificate ?

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What is education? Is it book /class learning or is it beyond the class room? No, not at all .Is it diverse knowledge? Not even that.

Well, you consider a man as educated if only he can pass some examinations and deliver good lectures. The education which does not help the common mass of people to equip themselves for the struggle for life, which does not bring out strength for life, which does not bring out strength of character, a spirit of philanthropy, and the courage of a lion-is it worth the name? Real education is that which enables one to stand on one`s own legs.

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 ideas.

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 feet. Education bring light to the poor ;and bring more light to the rich ,for they require it more than the poor .Bring light to the ignorant ,and more light to the educated , for the vanities of the education of our time are tremendous .

But our present day schools and colleges give secular education. There is neither ethical discipline nor spiritual instruction. The youth /students have not spiritually high ideals of life .The study only to get emoluments .This is very sad indeed. That is the reason why they turn out to be spiritual bankrupts in the end.

Remember that education must teach not merely some means of earning livelihood, tenets of citizenship etc .True education must impart initiation into the life of noble aspiration, of sacred values. Remember that all studies are intended for the enlightenment of the mind and the illumination of the soul.

Education must be best calculated to promote plan living and high thinking.

I will just give you copal of Marks, I am sure these are not your marks, English – 47, Math – 38. These are the marks secured by an Individual in his HSC Examination. I am sure these marks are neither yours nor mine.

These are the marks of Narandra. The Great man of India is Swami Vivekananda.

I want to draw a line in your thinking process. Is it the scholastics achievements are very important in the life or we want something beyond the number games of the school or collages in our career. I do not want to out of mind, the importance of this scholastics Achievement of each on of us.

But it's very important to understand that life is beyond the class room. Life is beyond the kind of marks secured in the examination.

The Great presentation and Communication Guru of Canada, `Balders' has written his Experience in his Autobiography and one of the experience which has stimulated me. Once he was waking near Mountain and saw two people are breaking the stones .He want near to this two People and asked to the first person, Hello what you doing? The First person replied you stupid, not able to see me what I am doing? Then he asked to the second person "Hi what you doing and the second person smiled and said I am building a temple, church, gurudwara and Masjid. Balders surprised.

You see the difference.

The real Education:
Education should teach the pupils to love God and man .Education should instruct the students to be truthful,moral,fearless,humble and merrciful.Education should teach the students to practice right conduct ,right thinking ,right living ,right action,self-Sacrifice and attain knowledge of the self .

The Devas, the Asuras and the men received education under prajapati.They learnt the triad of self-restraint, Liberality and mercy .This is a real education.

Narada was a student under sanatkumara and learnt that the Infinite is Bliss; that there is no bliss in anything finite, and that one should wish to understand the infinite. This is a real education.

Education are your eyes to see God in all faces, to behold unity of self in all beings. Education must be best calculated to promote plain living and high thinking .Each student must be taught that his first and for most duty is to attain Self-realization and to cultivate universal relation-"Human Values"

I hold that true education of the intellect can only come through a proper exercise and training of the bodily organs, e.g.hands, feet, eyes, ears, nose etc .In other words an intelligent use of the bodily organs in a child provides the best and quickest way of developing his intellect .But unless the development of the mind and body goes hand in hand with a corresponding awakening of the soul, the former alone would prove to be a poor lopsided affair .By spiritual training I mean education of the heart . A proper and all-round development of the mind, therefore, can take place only when it precedes pair passu with the education of the physical and spiritual faculties of the student /Youth.

Education should prepare you to face life with courage and fortitude ,as a man of character .It should eradicate your gross nature and animal instincts and transform you into a noble soul .Education must concern itself with varied aspects of living and must give you a sense of duty ,of responsibility ,as an individual , as a member of your family ,of society , as a citizen of the nation ,of the world .It must give you a broad outlook, the capacity for balanced judgment ,and a keen intellect .

Education must aim at forming a moral and spiritual attitude towards life. The real advancement and well being of every society and nation depend upon the right kind of educational basis.

"Education is for Life not mere Living."
Swami Satya Sai Baba