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Guidance on Education

Advice to Students and Teachers

  On Education

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Compilations from books by Sri Aurobindo & The Mother Guidance on Education 255 pages 2012 Edition
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BASIC ISSUES OF INDIAN EDUCATION 1
1. In view of the present and the future of national and international living, what is it that India should aim at in education?

Prepare her children for the rejection of falsehood and the manifestation of Truth.


 2. By what steps could the country proceed to realise this high aim?  How can a beginning in that direction he made?

Make matter ready to manifest the Spirit.


 3. What is India's true genius and what is her destiny?

To teach to the world that matter is false and impotent unless it becomes the manifestation of the Spirit.

4. How does the Mother view the progress of Science and Technology in India? What contribution can they make to the growth of the Spirit in man?

 Its only use is to make the material basis stronger, completer and more effective for the manifestation of the Spirit.


                              
1. This series of questions was submitted to the Mother by a group of teachers in August 1965, when an education commission of the Government of India came to Pondicherry to evaluate the ideals and educational methods of the Centre of Education.

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5. The country feels much concerned about national unity. What is the Mother's vision of things? How will India do her duty by herself and by the world?

The unity of all the nations is the compelling future of the world. But for the unity of all nations to be possible, each nation must first realise its own unity.


6. The language problem harasses India a good deal. What should be our correct attitude in this matter?

Unity must be a living fact and not the imposition of an arbitrary rule. When India will be one, she will have spontaneously a language understood by all.


7. Education has normally become literacy and a social status. Is it not an unhealthy trend? But how to give education its inner worth and intrinsic enjoyability?

Get out of conventions and insist on the growth of the soul.


8. What illusions and delusions is our education today beset with? How could we possibly keep clear of them?

 a) The almost exclusive importance given to success, career and money.

 b) Insist on the paramount importance of the contact with the Spirit and the growth and manifestation

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of the Truth of the being.

5 August 1965

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I would like them (the Government) to recognise Yoga as education, not so much for ourselves, but it will be good for the country.

Matter will be transformed, that will be a solid base. Life will be divinised. Let India take the lead.

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