Guidance on Education

Advice to Students and Teachers

  On Education


Notes on the Texts
Of the hundreds of entries in this section, about eighty per cent have been compiled from Part Two of On Education, Volume 12 of Collected Works of the Mother; about fifteen percent are from Series 5, 6, 9, 10, 12 and 14 of Some Answers from the Mother, Volume 16 of the Collected Works; about five percent are from the following sources: On Thoughts and Aphorisms, Volume 10, pp. 1 and 256; Words of the Mother, Volume 14, pp. 150, 193 and 371; Bulletin of Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education, issues of February, April and August 1987, in the correspondence entitled "Guidance to a Disciple"; and an unpublished correspondence. These entries have been organised by subject and arranged under the subjects in chronological order when dated or where they best fit when undated.
The first conversation, dated 6 January 1951, is from Words of the Mother, Collected Works Volume 15, pp. 319-21. The subsequent conversations of 1951 up to the end of 1958 are from Volumes 4-9 of the Collected Works, that is, from the Questions and Answers volumes, where they may be located by date. The conversation of 17 March 1961 is from On Thoughts and Aphorisms, Collected Works Volume 10, pp. 85-86 and the conversation of 6 March 1963 from the same volume, pp. 164-65. The conversation of 5 April 1967 and all subsequent ones are from Words of the Mother, Collected Works Volume 15 , pp. 403-43 passim.

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