[Assam] Swami Vivekanand on Education

[Chan Mahanta]

Funny thing Umesh, is that you are proving some 
of  SV's points in ways that I could not have :-).

See , Umesh, an ability to regurgitate words of 
wisdom, or recite facts and figures does not 
constitute education or learning, just like 
acquiring of high-faluting degrees from pedigreed 
institutions or otherwise.













At 10:06 AM -0700 6/11/07, umesh sharma wrote:
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>Education, education, education alone! Traveling 
>through many cities of Europe and observing in 
>them the comforts and education of even the poor 
>people, there was brought to my mind the state 
>of our own poor people, and I used to shed 
>tears. What made the difference? Education was 
>the answer I got. Through education comes faith 
>in one's self, and through faith in one's own 
>self the inherent Brahman is waking up in them, 
>while the Brahman in us is gradually becoming 
>dormant.
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>Education is not the amount of information that 
>is put in your brain and runs riot there 
>undigested all your life. We must have 
>life-building, man-making, character-making and 
>assimilation of ideas. If education is identical 
>with libraries are the greatest sages in the 
>world and encyclopedias are rishis (sages).
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>We must have a hold on the spiritual and secular 
>education of the nation. Do you understand 
>that?... The education that you are getting now 
>has some good points, but it has a tremendous 
>disadvan°©tage which is so great that the good 
>things are all weighed down. In the first place 
>it is not a man-making education. it is merely 
>and entirely a negative education. A negative 
>education or any training that is based on 
>negation, is worse than death.
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>Life is a series of fights and 
>disillusionments... The secret of life is not 
>enjoyment but education through experience. But, 
>alas, we are called off the moment we begin 
>really to learn.
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>The ideal of all education should be man-making. 
>But instead of that, we are always trying to 
>polish up the outside. What use is polishing the 
>outside when there is no inside? The end of all 
>training is to make the man grow.
>Compare the great teachers of religion with the 
>great philosophers. The philosophers scarcely 
>influenced anybody's inner man, and yet they 
>wrote marvelous books. The religion teachers, on 
>the other hand, moved countries in their 
>lifetimes. The difference was made by 
>personality. In the philosopher it is the faint 
>personality that influences. In the great 
>prophets, it is tremendous. In the former we 
>touch intellect, in the latter we touch life.
>-From "Realization and its methods."
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>Umesh Sharma
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>Washington D.C.
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>1-202-215-4328 [Cell]
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>Ed.M. - International Education Policy
>Harvard Graduate School of Education,
>Harvard University,
>Class of 2005
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>http://www.uknow.gse.harvard.edu/index.html (Edu info)
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>http://hbswk.hbs.edu/ (Management Info)
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>www.gse.harvard.edu/iep (where the above 2 are used )
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>http://jaipurschool.bihu.in/
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