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Definitions, Meaning, Benefits of Education
(topics)
Education
Education is the social organisation of knowledge. (MSS)
Education
Education helps the next generation to acquire all that the past
generations have accumulated as practically usable knowledge. (MSS)
On Education
The system of education brings to posterity the entire knowledge of
the past in essence in a decade or two. Education overcomes Time.
(MSS)
The Nature of
Education
Education is the psychological inner organisation that effectively
operates upon the outer mechanical organisation of the society. (MSS)
Definitions of
How We Are Educated
-Education is the experience of thoughts that by their
transparent depths reach the substance of the Mind so that
it can powerfully move the body to action.
-Mind
getting knowledge on its own and offering it to the vital
and body is Education
-Education is the descent of information, skill, capacity
down to the body for it to act upon. (MSS)
Society Raises the Average Man
Suppose a primitive man who had admired a
genius of his times appeared today in a university convocation either at
Oxford or Harvard, he would find the first graduate he meets a genius. And
going round the campus he will exclaim that 'everyone here is a genius.'
As times change and several centuries pass, the society subconsciously
tries to raise the average man now to the level of the greatest of men of
earlier times. (MSS)
Education
Enables Empowerment of Common Men
Toynbee
says the intelligentsia produces revolutionary changes in 136 years.
Before that, leaders of the society, including administrators were
chosen by experience or birth. Education usurped that position.
Experience is abridged by education. (MSS)
Education Enables Self-Respect and
Self-Confidence
Education develops self-respect as well as self-confidence.
(MSS)
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Education is the experience of the Mind
(MSS)
Related
MSS
Articles on Education
Education
Education the World Does Not Know
School that is Miniature of Future Society
Notes on the 200 Points of Education
Limitations of Current,
Potential of
the New Education
(topics)
General Limitation of the Current
Education
Education Enables
Conscious Preparation of Student
The success of the educational system is in its ability to help the
pupil cross the line between the unconscious and conscious
preparations. (MSS)
Horizontal Expansion
vs Quality of Growth of Education in Last Hundred Years
In the last hundred years general education has moved in
horizontal expansion and not in vertical growth of quality.
(On a scale of 1 to 1000 one hundred years has succeeded in
moving education from point 7 to point 8, from memorization
to understanding.) (MSS)
Education
Potential in India
-In the last hundred years general education has moved in
horizontal expansion and not in vertical growth of quality.
On a scale of 1 to 1000 one hundred years has succeeded in
moving education from point 7 to point 8, from memorization
to understanding. India, in view of the inner light, has the
opportunity to jump to 80 from point 3 if only she links the
present to the potential of the past heritage. If all the
progressive schools in India, about 100 or 500 of them,
UNDERSTAND the above truth, overnight they can devise a
method for implementation. I can do it readily if anyone
wants it. Should any school fulfill the prerequisites and
need a syllabus for Spiritual education, it can be readily
supplied.
-To
link the Spiritual heritage of India to Indian education is
a stupendous task not attempted till now. (MSS)
Western
System of Education
The Western system of education can produce and has produced
wonderful technology. It is a system that organizes arch
Ignorance. [i.e. there is a lack of knowledge of all the other domains
of existence, such as nature of
self-power,
true
self, infinite potential, spirit, subtle laws of life, etc.] (MSS, with addition)
Memorization that
Holds Back
One endowed with a capacity for original thinking or one who is
trained by meticulous education to turn out to be a great mind, will
escape that Grace, lost in the power of memory or a plethora of
facts, a misnomer for general knowledge. (MSS)
The New Education
Overview of the New Education
The New Education enables full development of personality and character
of the individual, the development of full capacities necessary for
achievement in life, the ability to truly think instead of parroting
information, the ability to self-learn and be infinitely self-motivated
to learn, the enabling of the emergence of the full and True self of the
individual, the acquisition of a knowledge that is dynamic in that it
also has the full experience of that knowledge, the ability to have the
knowledge and a lifetime's experience of a seventy year life at a young
age through a few years of learning, an understanding of the infinite
potentials of life, including the acquisition and utilization of the
vast power of the spirit.
Social Evolution of Young Adults through Education to Have the
Ripeness of Maturity
-
Socially my aim is to produce a
child (through
education) at the age of 18 or 20 with the potential
maturity of one at the ripe old age.
- It is an abridgement of Time apparently, but
in fact it is hastening the ripeness of experience --
maturity.
- Maturity, ripeness are not aspects that can
be hastened, but that which enables them – Freedom,
awareness, choice, direction, better still self-direction,
etc. – can be given to the maximum possible extent. (MSS)
Using the
Force to Bring the Future into the Present in Education
-Now
that the Force that can abridge evolution of 30,000 years into one
lifetime is there in the atmosphere, it is possible to raise the
quality of education sky–high and spread it all over humanity.
-I
should say the atmosphere now carries the Golden Force which
was not there before 1956.
-As
a first step, our aim is to prepare the student who leaves school at
15 to be as fit as one of 50 or 60 years. Our aim is turning
out a student who will have the mental age rather than social age of
50 or 60.
-The Force
that is there in the atmosphere can raise everyone in the population
to be a genius. (MSS)
New Consciousness that Will Emerge in the New School of
Education
We have to accept the New philosophy and create new attitudes
that will express the new consciousness. That is our work in
the school. (MSS)
Ultimate
Spiritual Definition of Education
The Individual Divine learning of the Transcendental Spirit
is education proper. This is not an idea the world is
familiar with. (MSS)
Raising
Intelligence through Subtle Education
Knowledge is power, Intelligence brings knowledge, as does
education. Education can also raise intelligence, if it is subtle
education. (MSS)
The Process of
Creation in Education
The
process of education is the process of creation, which is still not
only not known to the world but the world has not raised that
question yet or formulated it. (MSS)
[It is
a process that moves from a conception and direction that is a force that
is turned into a power through the organization of that conception which
manifests as great results. This can be applied at the level of the
educator and the educated.]
Education is "Yoga" of
Collective
The individual can follow
principles of consciousness to evolve. Those principles are formulated as
methods of yoga in the East. For the modern organized society that "yoga"
of (much more limited) understandings about life come through the system
of education. In that sense we can say that education is the yoga of the
collective. One day education can truly become yoga (i.e. a knowledge of
the highest high) for all people. (Paraphrase of MSS)
Education &
Values
Education has a vast scope for enabling
values to spread throughout
society.
Education,
Values, and Life Response
Education can organize unorganized energies of youth through
dissemination of knowledge, including the knowledge of values.
Education itself however needs to be organized to comprehend and
explain those values. In the business world, the value of values is
appreciated. It produces results, and profits. Now it needs to come
to education, where the scope is greater. Educators can learn from
the experience of businesses, and teach the benefits of values, look
around, and see the benefits when applied to the wider life and its
various disciplines.
Experience of, perceptions of, and a knowledge of Life Response
would be very helpful here because it shows how transitions towards
values quickly produce results. Such knowledge can be disseminated
through education. Educators themselves experiencing the wonders of
life response as a result of making the inner transitions that
attract its sudden and abundant appearance would not only champion
values, but a knowledge of the various triggers that enable life
response to occur -- including higher levels of cleanliness and
orderliness, a switch from a negative to a positive attitude at a
crucial moment, accepting what life gives, knowing what one truly
wants, greater psychological strength, etc. These can be taught as
values.
Related MSS Articles on Education
Education
Education the World Does Not Know
School that is Miniature of Future Society
Notes on the 200 Points of Education
Self-Learning
(topics)
The Third Way in
Education
Rarely do we find the educational system fostering the natural process of
spontaneous, self-motivated self-education in which children learn just as
they play and as a form of play out of their innate curiosity and urge to
acquire knowledge of the environment. Internationally, there have been
many efforts to find a ‘third way’ that suffers neither from the sad
neglect all too common in low quality public education or the compulsive
pressures exerted even on very young children by competitive,
career-conscious school systems.
Self-Learning
-Ultimately
education for the Individual is what he learns on his own. This is evident
in the genius who has nothing to learn from outside.
-When the educator SEES that "All learning is self-learning", he
ceases to be a teacher and begins to be an educationist. (MSS)
Self-Learning
-We have arrived at the position that self-learning is the only
significant learning.
-It is
possible to show that when the child does it herself she does it
better. So, "Do it yourself" is a great rule. It can be raised to
"Do it by your inner best". That never fails.
(MSS)
Child's Interest
in Learning
Why is the child interested? The in-gathering energy interests
itself. Why should the energy gather in the child? Because it is a
growing organisation.
Serving the Soul/True Self of the Individual
If an individual's soul is served, then he can learn
completely on his own. The more we tend to the individual's depths down
to his True Self, or the more one finds it on one's own, the more one is
capable of realizing the truths of life on our own.
Developing Capacities of
Self-Discrimination
-Children can be made to see for themselves what is elevating and what is
depressing. Self-discrimination is best.
-Education of the child can
be directly organised so as to create the faculties of suggestion,
discrimination, inspiration and revelation.
-The
seat of Genius is in the Intuitive Mind where the intuition is of the
object outside. When that intuition shifts to inside, the intuitional
knowledge changes into Supramental knowledge.
-Developing faculties of
discrimination in ourselves is a help to pass it on to the child. (MSS)
On the
Development of Thinking
(topics)
Thinking and
Understanding in Education
In today's educational world which aims at thinking as a goal seriously,
the best they reach is understanding. The faculty of thinking
is still left to the individual in the unorganised sector. (MSS)
The Future is for Thinking
The future is for thinking, not for memorization. (MSS)
Memorization to
Understanding to Thinking
We have moved from memorization to understanding. The child
understands what it is taught or reads. That is understanding. That
is not thinking. The child that questions thinks. Shifting from
understanding to thinking will be a great thing. Though this is the
unconscious basis of Western education, they have settled for
understanding. Let us move to thinking. Understanding explains
how. Thinking tells us why. (MSS)
Memorization that
Holds Back
One endowed with a capacity for original thinking or one who is
trained by meticulous education to turn out to be a great mind, will
escape that Grace, lost in the power of memory or a plethora of
facts, a misnomer for general knowledge. (MSS)
On Memorization
When people speak against memorization as a method of teaching, we
are told all the stalwarts in the arena of world politics,
especially Indian politics are the products of a system of which
memorization is an essential part. It is true that memory is a great
desirable power with astonishing results that astound us.
But as a tool of teaching, it is more a bar than a help. (MSS)
Absorbing
Child's Energies in School by Thinking
A thinking child is slow in speech. Teach the
children to think, their energies will be blotted out. Feeling does
it more. No excess energy will be on the surface if the child learns
to think and feel.
Understanding Over
Rote Memory in Child Learning
The child becomes dependent on memory when memory is fed. The child
overcomes that dependence when the understanding is addressed. (MSS)
Conditioning in Current Education
One's capacity of education is mutilated, oppressed, and
tyrannized into learning what is taught. Education is thus
converted into conditioning. (It is not wrong for children
to be conditioned at home, at school, at the work spot and
the society at large. Till now it was necessary and
inevitable in the circumstances. But that is not education.)
(MSS, slightly modified)
From
Memorization to Understanding to Thinking in the West
Just now we see the West has emphasized UNDERSTANDING [in
Education] in preference to memorization. It is great. That
understanding has yet not risen to thinking.
(MSS, with slight
addition)
From Rote
Leaning to Child Endlessly Wanting to Learn
It is a job for the mother to compel her child to sit down
and do its homework. It is equivalent to punishment. There
are schools which give no homework. They help children to
learn reading at the age of 4 or even 3. Such a child, as
soon as she wakes up, takes a book and starts reading. All
day long that child is found reading. The job of the parent
is to continue to supply books. This is not only true in
learning. If you teach workers the right skill of doing
their work, they won’t go home until their work is perfectly
done.
In a school where rote memory was insisted upon, writing
composition was a punishment. In a year the students used to
write twelve compositions of half a page each. Then they
were taught to write English. The whole atmosphere changed.
Every boy was anxious to write. That year they all wrote 45
compositions of 1½ pages each. About ten students started
summarizing retold stories. Most of them did so for ten or
fifteen books. Two boys each wrote 600 pages summarizing 52
retold stories. Work has a spirit in it. To evoke that will
give great results. (MSS)
How to Produce
Thinkers in Education
To produce a thinker the system must prepare to draw upon the social
wisdom that already exists in the social atmosphere. (MSS)
Enabling Genius
(topics)
On Bringing Geniuses
to the Fore of Society
We can nurture the genius individuals that are emerging in life, and help
bring them to the fore of society, collective, or group. If we were to
search for such individuals we should look out for the following market
indicators:
-Behind, it will lurk as essence of talent, a conceptual comprehension of
the field hitherto unknown.
-Such people would be ridiculed in their own work spot.
-The potential candidates will be, more often than not, QUIET and will be
lost inside themselves.
In essence such genius is the Spirit emerging in that individual in a new
form. He or she are potential pioneers of the NEW, embodying the ever-new,
i.e. creative manifestations of the Divine Spirit in forms of Force in
life. (Expansion on ideas of MSS)
Mental Education
and Development of Genius
Mental education gives the understanding of the relationships between
ideas which when formulated from below makes one a Genius. This
formulation can receive the powers of genius from above if the faith
is not in the formulation. (MSS)
Primrose School in India
‘Every child is a potential genius...’ (MSS)
To visit the Primrose School, click
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Drawing Out the Genius
of the Child
"Educate" has a Greek root, meaning to draw out. The genius is
there in the child. It has to be drawn out into play.
Recognizing the Genius in the Child
The child of the society is the cream of the ascending
social progress that is material success, educational
enlightenment. Progress in society is initiated by pioneers,
not the elite. Here is an appeal, to pioneer the social progress
in education. It is to recognize the Genius in every child. To
start with, it is your own child. (MSS)
Intuitive Mind as Seat of
Genius
The
seat of Genius is in the Intuitive Mind where the intuition is
of the object outside. When that intuition shifts to inside, the
intuitional knowledge changes into Supramental knowledge.
(MSS)
Genius Rejects Education
Genius is one who rejects the school and seeks
education on his own. (MSS)
Genius Ultimately Learns on His Own
Ultimately education for the Individual is what he learns on his
own. This is evident in the genius who
has nothing to learn from outside.
(MSS)
Serving the Soul/True Self and Genius
To the degree that
the individual's soul is served, genius will emerge.
The Force and Genius
The Force that is there in the atmosphere can raise everyone in
the population to be a genius. (MSS)
Spiritual Personality and the Genius
Can schools create this Personality and develop it? Here there is
a selfish personality, selfless personality, social personality,
psychological personality and finally Spiritual Personality.
To create a grade scheme or syllabus to develop these levels of
personality is not a difficult task. The teaching community should
realise the TRUTH of these values. The crown is the Spiritual
Personality that creates the GENIUS. As the
mass of people do not believe in this possibility, this subject remains
unexplored. (MSS)
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That teacher who sees this uniqueness in a child will have
discovered the potential genius of
human Mind. (MSS, slightly added to)
Related Thoughts on
Genius, Original Thinking
MSS
Articles on Education
Genius of the
Child
The Energy Behind
the Genius
Experience in Life Beyond Knowledge
(topics)
Student Must Experience Truths
A teacher can only explain
so much to a student, to aid in his conception. At some point the student
must experience the veracity of the truth of the idea as
his or her own
perception and
sensation.
Educations vs.
Life Experience
Education is a process of descent. Experience is ascent.
(MSS)
Education and
Conception, Perception, and Sensation
Conception
of ideas, such as we get through education or learning anything for that
matter, will always be useful, even before we have the experienced
perception and the embodied sensation. Perhaps the best education we can
get can also provide perceptual and sensational experiences as well.
We would wish to make the education as representative of the society he is
entering as possible; in all dimensions of life.
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A teacher can only explain
so much to a student, to aid in his conception. At some point the student
must experience the veracity of the truth of the idea as
his or her own
perception and
sensation.
Success and Accomplishment in Life
(topics)
Attitudes, Understanding and Psychological Values for Accomplishment
Formal education and training programs focus almost exclusively on
imparting physical, social and mental skills. They place very little
conscious emphasis on the attitudes, the mental understanding and
decisiveness, and the psychological values needed for these skills to
result in accomplishment and fulfillment. Therefore, the overall
effectiveness and accomplishments of the individual and the society are
extremely limited compared to the opportunities that are available. If the
requirements for success in each field of life are analyzed, most people
would be found possessing only 25% of what is required for high
achievement. Thus, the scope for improving personal effectiveness is
enormous.
Values represent the
highest and most powerful individual capacity for accomplishment. As
skills direct the use of physical energy, values direct the use of the
psychological energy of the personality. Therefore the highest levels of
individual and social accomplishment demand very high values.
It is possible to evolve
a formal curricula that does impart the values, attitudes, understanding
and decisiveness necessary for achievement and personal fulfillment. In
order to do so, it is necessary to fully understand the process of value
formation and the ways in which values are acquired.
(MSS)
Education,
Values, and Life Response
Education can organize unorganized energies of youth through
dissemination of knowledge, including the knowledge of values.
Education itself however needs to be organized to comprehend and
explain those values. In the business world, the value of values is
appreciated. It produces results, and profits. Now it needs to come
to education, where the scope is greater. Educators can learn from
the experience of businesses, and teach the benefits of values, look
around, and see the benefits when applied to the wider life and its
various disciplines.
Experience of, perceptions of, and a knowledge of Life Response
would be very helpful here because it shows how transitions towards
values quickly produce results. Such knowledge can be disseminated
through education. Educators themselves experiencing the wonders of
life response as a result of making the inner transitions that
attract its sudden and abundant appearance would not only champion
values, but a knowledge of the various triggers that enable life
response to occur -- including higher levels of cleanliness and
orderliness, a switch from a negative to a positive attitude at a
crucial moment, accepting what life gives, knowing what one truly
wants, greater psychological strength, etc. These can be taught as
values.
Education on the Principles
of Life
Let us learn these laws of
life in an organized fashion through education. We now go through an
entire life to learn but a handful of these principles, when there are
thousands to be gained. It is like picking up a handful of sand on the
beach when we need to absorb the entire shoreline. If systematically
taught, absorbing the multi-faceted Truth can even become easy!
Enduring
Success through Education, Training
Success can be acquired through one's own natural capacities.
Enduring success however is insured through education and
training that transcends one's native abilities; where the
secrets of a work, a field, a skill, etc. are fully acquired.
(Paraphrase of MSS)
Child Education
that is Life Education
An education that equips the child to avoid failures in life as much
as possible is desirable. Whether he fits into this society or not,
he must live. He must successfully live in good health, if possible
avoiding sorrow and depression. It is Life education based on health
education. As we do not raise fundamental issues, let us continue to
teach what we are now teaching and within that scope try to develop
in the child good health, mastery of circumstances as well as
mastery of his lower emotions.
Life education
has several layers. First, it offers successful survival. Next, a
freedom of mind. Third, it enables the child to have smooth
relations with other children. Finally, in his human relationship
with other children he can have a certain mastery that is not
domination. It goes further when the child is able to have the same
mastery over the events and environment. This appears miraculous,
but we witness it all the time in a sporadic form. All that I am
pleading for is to organise such a capacity as a permanent one. The
rules are too many but the central theme is when one is right and
quietly strong, life at once acts positively. When a child who wants
to go with a friend to his house to fetch a book from there proposes
it to his friend, instantaneously someone brings that book to his
friend for some mysterious reason. This is not unknown, but to give
this power to the child as a permanent possession in all his affairs
is to elevate the child to such a level of life as does not exist
now. The gain here is not the walk to his friend's house. The child
will develop strong, quiet, innate GOODNESS.
The main
principle is the active initiative of the school to bring the child
into live contact with all facets of social life so that when he
goes out he will not find any social situation utterly fresh.
The whole life of
the school can be organised as a miniature of the society outside.
(MSS)
Developing Talent
of Children for Life
Talents come from training. No school can train children in all
talents or in many talents. But any talent is created by one skill
getting fortified by the entire capacity of the Individual. To convert
one skill into a talent by the general capacity, one needs that
ability.
The school
instead of giving academic education, must endeavour to give life
education where the child will have acquired the ability to create any
talent life needs. (MSS)
Social Evolution of Young Adults through Education to Have the
Ripeness of Maturity
-
Socially my aim is to produce a boy
(through
education) at the age of 18 or 20 with the potential
maturity of one at the ripe old age.
- It is an abridgement of Time apparently, but
in fact it is hastening the ripeness of experience --
maturity.
- Maturity, ripeness are not aspects that can
be hastened, but that which enables them – Freedom,
awareness, choice, direction, better still self-direction,
etc. – can be given to the maximum possible extent. (MSS)
Releasing the
Energy of the Child in Education for Achievement
Release the energy in the child, teach him to direct it for full
use, let him organise it into a power of achievement. Let us give
him the skills to turn it into results.
Energy is
released by interest, attention, freedom. Negatively it may release
wild energy.
The interest,
attention, freedom can rise in the scale of physical, vital, mental,
spiritual, supramental, Mother. (MSS)
Forging Links
with Society
The job of the school is to forge conscious links with all the
LIVE points of the society that matter to the future of the child.
Education of Youth on
Principles
Could you imagine if all we
have suggested for improvement
[i.e. a complete life
knowledge] were known in full by the time we were 16?
That would be a true education for an infinite-results type life.
Uncovering the Secrets of Human Consciousness to Uplift Education
-To uncover the ways of the growth of human consciousness in the
process of acquiring knowledge and capacity, the twin aspects of
Personality, is a rewarding work of a lifetime for about a few hundred
researchers in education and yoga.
-To organise that project, one needs to know
The Life Divine in greater thoroughness and needs to practice it in
the life of a student.
The one great student available is oneself.
Until we become conscious of ourselves, we can do so in the students.
(MSS)
Development of Mental to Spiritual Capacities for Student
-
Education can
produce candidates for survival, growth, development or evolution.
-
As social
self-conception is drilled in psychological self-conception too can
be trained. Spiritual self-conception cannot be trained. The boy
must become spiritually conscious.
-
Facts taught
faithfully produce salaried employees. Education that gives isolated
facts prepares men for social survival.
-
To teach the
relation between things – rainfall and harvest – creates thinking
through understanding. Thought is born as he sees the cause leading
to effect. It enables one to produce on his own. It is productive
capacity, not producing for another. It makes him an entrepreneur.
-
Observation of relation between things generates thought through
understanding and thinking as he observes causes leading to effect.
Thought generates productive capacity of the entrepreneur.
-
To see the effect
issuing out of a cause is Reason. Reasoning learnt at school makes
one an entrepreneur.
-
Using leads to
accomplishment. They become thinkers; if sentimental, they become
poets. Logic at early stages of the mental development appears
subtle. To lead the student through the stages of development
silently and wait for him to comprehend the right logic is the best
method.
-
Children can be
taught insight by a teacher who has intuition.
-
Self-Conception:
We can give facts, thoughts, ideas or logic. But what assimilates is
his personality, which is presently the social personality. Social
personality issues out of social self-conception which the boy takes
in implicitly or unconsciously. It can be consciously trained. Even
the conscious training of the school or family is unconsciously
accepted by him. To make him conscious is great. It is a great
subject for teachers who are conscious... As social self-conception
is drilled in psychological self-conception too can be trained.
Spiritual self-conception cannot be trained. The boy must become
spiritually conscious. (MSS, extracts)
Character & Personality
Building
(topics)
Academic results
vs. Character a School Can Produce
Academic results are the least a school can produce. Character is the
highest a school can give the pupil. [MSS]
The Role
of Education in Personality-building
What is
generally considered in general knowledge is Information.
Information depends upon memory. Ideas are superior to
information. It is said children will understand ideas only
after the age of 14. Mother says sometimes they do so even
after the age of 7. If information develops memory, ideas
develop Thinking. Beyond these two lies the Personality of
the child. An old Tamil proverb says a litre, even when
dipped in the sea, can contain only a litre, not more. How much one receives does not depend upon the amount given
but the quantity one can contain and retain.
Modern schools are becoming nationally famous for the
attainments of their children. Such attainments are
information and ideas. The personality of the child grows,
if it grows, by itself, not by any effort of the school. The growth of the child’s Personality is NOT a conscious aim
of any school anywhere in the world, nor is the world
conscious of such a phenomenon. In my view, all good
schools can successfully try this.
What then is this mysterious element of Personality? It is
not an endowment like intelligence of the mind or a skill of
the body. It is the endowment of the entire Being, still
not fully formed, but ready to take shape when it is
challenged by a situation character cannot handle. A
carpenter acquires physical skill. It is remembered by the
PHYSICAL memory. Mind memorizes formulas. Neither is
knowledge; both are skills. Deep ploughing takes the roots
down, preserves moisture, gives a great yield. This is not
merely information, but an idea based on information. The
Westerner discovered that pleasing the customer increases
business. Though selfish, it is another man’s point of view,
a spiritual idea, as the Spirit considers the other
man’s profit as one’s own welfare. What acquires this value
is NOT manners, behaviour or even character. It is the
Personality of MAN which new-creates and expands endlessly.
Can schools create this Personality and develop it? Here
there is a selfish personality, selfless personality, social
personality, psychological personality and finally Spiritual Personality. To create a grade scheme
or syllabus to develop these levels of personality is not a
difficult task. The teaching community should realise the
TRUTH of these values. The crown is the Spiritual
Personality that creates the GENIUS. As the mass of people
do not believe in this possibility, this subject remains
unexplored. (MSS)
Raising the Personality of the Child at Home, in School, in Society
Information, opinion, attitude, motive
are graded instruments of Personality. So the
greater, the higher the opinion, attitude,
and motive are, the greater is the ability of Personality to benefit
by new information, fresh energy or greater physical strength.
Families and schools can raise
the level of the child’s Personality. In a school experienced
educationists can even devise a curriculum and a syllabus that
consciously aims at this goal. At home, culturally sensitive parents
of high education can very well attempt it.
The first rule of
raising the Personality is NOT to try to give it to the child. It
has to be done through the information,
knowledge, skill, capacity and especially values
that emanate from the school, parent, and society.
Their goals should not be to force it on the
child, but to themselves live it, all the while giving the child
utter Freedom.
(Paraphrase of MSS)
Further Thoughts on
Manners, Behavior, Character, Personality
Developing the Inner, Higher,
Spiritual Consciousness
(topics)
Education that Enables the Discovery of the Inner
Truth
- Integration of the outer with the inner is
one essential part of education.
- To be able to go inside and discover the
Truth first inside is the first step of education.
- To discover that inner Truth in outer
experience is Education par excellence. (MSS)
New Consciousness that Will Emerge in the New School of
Education
We have to accept the New philosophy and create new attitudes
that will express the new consciousness. That is our work in
the school. (MSS)
Teaching Ideas of
Consciousness
The school can give, as part of the curriculum, all the details
of consciousness for the child to acquire before he leaves school.
(MSS)
Ultimate
Spiritual Definition of Education
The Individual Divine learning of the Transcendental Spirit
is education proper. This is not an idea the world is
familiar with. (MSS)
Serving the Soul/True Self of the Individual
If an individual's soul is served, then he can learn
completely on his own. The more we tend to the individual's depths down
to his True Self, or the more one finds it on one's own, the more one is
capable of realizing the truths of life on our own.
Exploration of the
Invisible in Education
Formal education should desert the individual as early as possible,
initiating him into the exploration of the invisible. (MSS)
On the Benefit of
Education, and the Great Benefit of Evocation of Spirit in
Education
Every new technology closes the gap between the high and the low to
some extent. Education is an institution that does so in a great
measure.
Education is a
divine organisation. It takes the past knowledge, extracts its
essence discarding the superficial details, arranges it into a
curriculum and syllabus and offers it to the pupil in an easily
digestible form. As a result, the student in twenty years gets the
social wisdom of 2000 years.
The more
educated a country or a community is, the more prosperous it is.
Now that the
mind of the society is awake, educational methods advance by leaps
and bounds.
Education can
be spiritual, in the sense that the Spirit of the pupil awakens.
There is the Spirit in the teacher. The system of education itself
has its own inner Spirit. The nation, the community, the parents and
the student have their own Spirit. When any one of them is awakened,
the progress is significant.
A national
spiritual atmosphere comes into existence when all segments or most
of them awaken. In such a climate, poverty recedes and Prosperity
flourishes. Experienced educationists are in the privileged position
to devise a system of education which can almost close the gap
between the high and the low. It will be a golden age. (MSS)
Development of Mental to Spiritual Capacities for Student
-
Education can
produce candidates for survival, growth, development or evolution.
-
As social
self-conception is drilled in psychological self-conception too can
be trained. Spiritual self-conception cannot be trained. The boy
must become spiritually conscious.
-
Facts taught
faithfully produce salaried employees. Education that gives isolated
facts prepares men for social survival.
-
To teach the
relation between things – rainfall and harvest – creates thinking
through understanding. Thought is born as he sees the cause leading
to effect. It enables one to produce on his own. It is productive
capacity, not producing for another. It makes him an entrepreneur.
-
Observation of relation between things generates thought through
understanding and thinking as he observes causes leading to effect.
Thought generates productive capacity of the entrepreneur.
-
To see the effect
issuing out of a cause is Reason. Reasoning learnt at school makes
one an entrepreneur.
-
Using leads to
accomplishment. They become thinkers; if sentimental, they become
poets. Logic at early stages of the mental development appears
subtle. To lead the student through the stages of development
silently and wait for him to comprehend the right logic is the best
method.
-
Children can be
taught insight by a teacher who has intuition.
-
Self-Conception:
We can give facts, thoughts, ideas or logic. But what assimilates is
his personality, which is presently the social personality. Social
personality issues out of social self-conception which the boy takes
in implicitly or unconsciously. It can be consciously trained. Even
the conscious training of the school or family is unconsciously
accepted by him. To make him conscious is great. It is a great
subject for teachers who are conscious... As social self-conception
is drilled in psychological self-conception too can be trained.
Spiritual self-conception cannot be trained. The boy must become
spiritually conscious. (MSS, extracts)
Gradations of
Learning for Student Culminating in Spirituality
We see a gradation in hearing, listening, understanding, assimilating,
deciding, determining and committing oneself to what one listens to.
Up to assimilation, it is the part of knowledge; beyond it is the work
of will. A student can outgrow simpler strategies and end up in the
final strategy of committing himself to the instructions he listens
to. A further step is consecration, which culminates in surrender.
For
consecration, the child needs to suspend understanding or commitment
i.e. the child eliminates herself. It produces the result directly. An
attitude of consecration or surrender, it can be seen, will directly
help one acquire what arises in one's mind or what is spoken to one.
(MSS)
Using the
Force to Bring the Future into the Present in Education
-Now
that the Force that can abridge evolution of 30,000 years into one
lifetime is there in the atmosphere, it is possible to raise the
quality of education sky–high and spread it all over humanity.
-I
should say the atmosphere now carries the Golden Force which
was not there before 1956.
-As
a first step, our aim is to prepare the student who leaves school at
15 to be as fit as one of 50 or 60 years. Our aim is turning
out a student who will have the mental age rather than social age of
50 or 60.
-The Force
that is there in the atmosphere can raise everyone in the population
to be a genius. (MSS)
Soul-Based
Education (by The Mother)
Related MSS
Articles
Educating the
Child
Further Article, Thoughts on Developing
Spirit
The Role
of the School
(topics)
Role of the School
The school is an intermediary between the family and the society. It
is in a position to help the child equip himself with most of the
outer and inner endowments. (MSS)
New Consciousness that Will Emerge in the New School of
Education
We have to accept the New philosophy and create new attitudes
that will express the new consciousness. That is our work in
the school. (MSS)
Primrose School in India
‘Every child is a potential genius...’ (MSS)
To visit the Primrose School, click
here.
The Role
of the Teacher
(topics)
First Principle of
True Teaching
The first principle of true teaching is that
nothing can be taught. The teacher is not an instructor or task-master,
he is a helper and a guide. His business is to suggest and not to
impose... He does not impart knowledge to him, he shows him how to
acquire knowledge for himself. (Sri Aurobindo)
Child Education
of the Future
The best type of child education is where the teacher discovers
and nurtures the inner aspiration and truth of the child through
his perfect attention to it, which is ultimately only made
possible through his own inner connection to his True Self. This
is the education of the future, which it is now time to embrace.
Understanding the Student and the Subject
The teacher who understands the subject and teaches it well so
that the interest of the class is awakened is the best of teachers. In
the training colleges where psychology is taught, it is said that to
understand the student is more important than understanding the subject.
(MSS)
Teacher Can Explain Only So Much
A teacher can only explain
so much to a student, to aid in his conception. At some point the student
must experience the veracity of the truth of the idea as
his or her own
perception and
sensation.
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A leader or a teacher or an
instructor must allow difficult energies to work its way out among the
participants without interfering. He trusts in their efforts and their
truths. If he rallies the groups thereafter, they will invariably meet
with progress or success.
Teacher
Recognizing Values of Others; Not Recognizing Defect in Others
Schools can teach lots of manners, if the teachers are imbued
with it and they issue from a felt emotion inside. The most
important of them is to readily appreciate any value in others. More
important is NOT to recognize a defect in others. When the school as
a whole has learnt that attitude as an unwritten code or unspoken
attitude, the very atmosphere will learn to appreciate what the
children are and what we are doing.
Seeing the Uniqueness of the Child (for
education)
- Uniqueness [i.e. diversity and multiplicity
in creation] enables creation to reach perfection.
- Fingerprint experts, handwriting experts,
astrologers, and philosophers know this.
- The Buddha says the river is never the same
from moment to moment.
- That teacher who sees this uniqueness in a
child will have discovered the potential genius of human
Mind. (MSS, slightly added to)
Teacher
Must Live Values Preached
The school, i.e. the teachers have to accept all these values as
their own personal values. Otherwise, the whole thinking will remain
a dead letter.
The Role of the
Teacher
Guiding the children to shape their own personalities along
their own lines when they have attained that stage is the
only thing the teacher can do. (MSS, slight modification)
The Ideal
Teacher & Teaching Method for Children
Having completed two years of Ph.D. in one of the most famous
American universities, a young man returned to Calcutta where he
had been brought up from birth. He is a Tamilian whose parents
are sophisticated and idealistic. On seeing an advertisement for
teachers from a primary school and on learning how the school
plans its syllabus, he was inspired by the idea of teaching
there. And his parents endorsed his aspiration. He visited the
school and found the educational environment exceeded his
expectations. He stayed there for one year teaching. He entered
the spirit of the founders more than others, perhaps better than
the management and founders. At once, he became popular with the
kids. His popularity was unparalleled. At the end of the year,
he sought to continue his education back in the US. He was
admitted into Ph.D. in the 3rd year in his parent institution.
The school had only three standards. It had no formal exams. It
did not believe in giving homework. Nor did they punish the
children. This freedom opened up the educational potential of
the children and was severally expressed, positively and
negatively. No child in the class would sit properly. They
would take any lounging position that suited them. Nor would
they listen to the teacher if he was not sufficiently
interesting. Several types of behaviour which would be
impermissible in any disciplined atmosphere were exhibited. But
the sense of competition was largely absent. Young children
could open the Junior Encyclopaedia and read fluently. They
developed the capacity to think and understand on their own. The
habit of memorisation was given the go-by. As soon as they were
promoted to the 4th standard, and the parents bought the text
books, the best boy in the class read his entire English
textbooks in the week before school opened.
The ideal teacher gave an affectionate nickname to most of the
students. At the year end birthday party held in his honour, he
gave each child in 2nd and 3rd standard a personal gift and
message. Even while he was here, his children were in
correspondence with him through email. After he left, one girl
started sending him email daily. He not only replies to the
students without fail, but enters into email correspondence with
any child who writes to him. Their birthdays are special
occasions for him. He sends the birthday child a gift by courier
and plans to do so to all the 50 children this year, even after
joining his Ph.D. course. He wishes to find for this school as
many teachers as possible who are of his type. He believes that
anyone who comes to know of this school would prefer to work
here in preference to his professional pursuit. Here he is known
as Chari. Chari has discovered the Spirit of education in
teaching.
(MSS, with addition)
The Teacher Who Understandd
the Parent of the Child
The teacher who understands the subject and teaches it well so that the
interest of the class is awakened is the best of teachers. In the
training colleges where psychology is taught, it is said that to
understand the student is more important than understanding the subject.
The student has two sides to his personality.
One is the human side that needs attention and affection. The other is
the mental capacity to relate to the subject taught and absorb it with
interest. Teachers’ colleges deal with the latter.
The former is out of reach for the teacher. For, what is he to do with
the knowledge of the student’s affectionate home or broken home? In a
higher sense of education, that matters, that alone matters.
The parent is result-oriented. He needs to know whether his child’s
career will be shaped by the school. The parent will not understand the
psychological makeup of his son or daughter, but will expect
extraordinary results. If the teacher understands the parent, it will
help him deal with the student.
The child needs affection. Maybe that is the only thing he is looking
for. At least, attention, a poor version of affection, is what he is
looking for. Half the children get that affectionate attention at home.
For them, it is easy to learn. The other half do not get that affection.
Knowing that, the teacher can offer him some attention. The boy or girl
will read, not so much for the sake of the subject as for the attention
that appears to him as affection. There are certain hard cases where the
children are severely beaten at home, either by the father or the
mother. It is too much for the teacher to expect that child to read.
That teacher who endeavors to know this fact of the home treatment is in
a fortunate position with the child. The child may not want the teacher
to know his condition at home. Knowing that, if the teacher extends an
attitude of solicitude to the student, whatever her age, it will be
heavenly balm to the student.
That student will fully respond to the teacher, whether it is in the
lesson or outside.
(MSS, slight modification)
Know One Self to Be
Valid Teacher
To become a valid teacher, one must be able to know in
himself, the conflict that is going on between ignorance and
knowledge. (MSS)
To Be a Good
Teacher
To be a good teacher, one must be a voracious reader and think for
himself or herself. (MSS)
The Teacher,
School Aiming at Whole of Knowledge
If the teacher or the school aims at the whole of knowledge,
considering education as a whole, the atmosphere will
pervade the school. It will create the conducive condition
for the child to emerge out of its self-chosen imprisonment.
(MSS)
The Teacher Turning
Child Turbulence into Greater Patience
If the teacher responds to the turbulence of the
child patiently, the turbulence will work itself out and
settle down as greater patience, making the teacher
reveal to herself that she is finite witnessing the
emergence of the Infinite in the child. (MSS)
Disservice of
Teacher Discipline
If the teacher conditions or disciplines the child into
good behaviour, she will be doing a cardinal disservice
to the cause of education. (MSS)
Limitation of Teacher Excitement, Enthusiasm; Need for
Love
- When a teacher
makes the class excited, animated, pleasant to
herself, expansive in the students, she is being
a good teacher.
- It means she is
closing all avenues of education in the children
and in herself. Education is an emergence of
knowledge from ignorance.
- Enthusiasm,
expansiveness, animated behaviour are active
enjoyment of ignorance.
- Attention matures
into affection. Affection is physical when
proximity is demanded.
- It is vital, when
it is pleasant. It rarely becomes mental.
- Affection, though
it contains the seed of spirituality (love) as
we practise it, is the antithesis of love.
- Love is calm,
strong, involuntarily giving, incapable of
receiving, amoral, non-social,
non-psychological.
- The animated
teacher creates a wall between the aspiring
student and the descending love for the simple
reason that love is calm. Love is one of the
three expressions of Ananda. (MSS)
MSS
Articles on Education
Teaching is One
Part of Education
Child Education
(topics)
New Progressive
Child Education Methods
Children's Low Speech in School -- Children shout and enjoy
shouting. The children can learn speaking low with advantage.
Life will respond positively to low speech. It is a
fundamental principle of life response.
Absorbing
Child's Energies in School by Thinking -- A thinking child is slow in speech. Teach the
children to think, their energies will be blotted out. Feeling does
it more. No excess energy will be on the surface if the child learns
to think and feel.
Teacher
Recognizing Values of Others; Not Recognizing Defect in Others
-- Schools can teach lots of manners, if the teachers are imbued
with it and they issue from a felt emotion inside. The most
important of them is to readily appreciate any value in others. More
important is NOT to recognize a defect in others. When the school as
a whole has learnt that attitude as an unwritten code or unspoken
attitude, the very atmosphere will learn to appreciate what the
children are and what we are doing.
Teacher
Must Live Values Preached
-- The school, i.e. the teachers have to accept all these values as
their own personal values. Otherwise, the whole thinking will remain
a dead letter.
Forging Links
with Society
-- The job of the school is to forge conscious links with all the
LIVE points of the society that matter to the future of the child.
Teaching Ideas of
Consciousness
-- The school can give, as part of the curriculum, all the details
of consciousness for the child to acquire before he leaves school.
(MSS)
Basic
Prerequisites for Education for Children
-
Self-learning
-- Children should not be taught, they should
be
encouraged to learn on their own.
-
No
Discipline
-- No discipline of any kind is to be imposed, except
that which is required by hygienic and safety.
-
No
Scolding, Abusing
-- Scolding or abusing or threatening is child abuse.
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No
Evaluation, testing
-- No attempt should be made to evaluate the level of
learning.
-
No
Evaluation, testing
-- Comparison is odious, ranking is rankling.
-
Right
Perception of Teacher
-- A teacher who is unable to SEE that all children are
EQUAL should not be employed. All children are learning
from the environment all the time. The teacher is
superstitious to wish to condition the child to learn
what he teaches.
-
Right
Perception of Teacher --
Teachers should know that teaching is a PROCESS of their
learning.
-
Presenting Facts, Information
-- Facts and information can be given. There is no
harm. To consider that knowledge is stupid.
-
Child's Organization of Personality
-- What the child learns is to organise its personality
and all the facts, information, and ideas go to that
organisation.
-
Right
Personality of Teacher --
No
teacher who does not understand her own personality can
be a teacher, as she will NOT see the personality of the
child.
-
Overcoming Dark Influence of Parent, Teacher on Child --
How to protect the child from the dark influence of
the parent is learnt by knowing the measure of the
teacher's inner darkness.
-
Teaching is Aspect of Education
--
Teaching is not education, as the waves are not the
ocean. (MSS, slightly modified)
Child Education
that is Life Education
An education that equips the child to avoid failures in life as much
as possible isz
Other (includes article references)
(topics)
Effect of Generations Gap
Child More Advanced than Parent/Teacher Because of New
Generation
Education is inherently contradictory because one
generation tries to teach another which is more evolved.
- Times are changing, society is evolving day by day.
It is a truism in all training that a man practices
all his life what he has learned in the training
more or less.
- Nowadays society is changing rapidly. Often the next
generation is opposite to the previous generation.
They may even be radically so. That itself partly is
a cause of education.
- When the teacher and the parent belong to one
generation, a forty year old parent or even a twenty
year old parent is twenty years behind the
requirements of the present child.
- The parent or the teacher knows and values only what
he has learned twenty years earlier. He can teach
only what he knows.
- More than the material, the method is important.
- As years pass by, society grows in freedom in its
appreciation of human values.
- Children of today deserve greater freedom than their
parents enjoyed or were denied.
- But the only possible thing is, the parent as well
as the teacher can have only those attitudes with
which they have been brought up. They value what
they possess.
- They impose it on the child.
- To them, what they have is valuable and noble.
- Society is a living organisation. Constantly
hundreds of new ideas are entering. It changes it
attitudes towards criminals, money, property,
government, institutions and education.
- Children of today are subconsciously receptive to
those changes.
- Unless the parent is consciously receptive to those
ideas, and takes full efforts to give up what they
have inherited, they are not qualified to teach the
child. It is called generation gap.
....
- An ignorant father trying to educate his son can
give him material support, moral encouragement, but
cannot help him in the process of education. When
the father insists on teaching the child what he
knows, he is trying to reverse the evolutionary
course when he becomes evil incarnate.
- From the days of inception of education, education
has this character.
- One reason why geniuses drop out of schools every
early in life is this. (MSS)
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In the measure a generation recognises the freedom necessary for
the next generation to fully benefit by the changing times, education is
effective. (MSS)
The Parent Cannot Educate the Child for True
Education
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In
the context of education, as the parent has a duty to
rear the child into an adult, he also has the duty to
know that he cannot educate his child.
-
That
is a freedom inconceivable to the parent.
-
When
the child is to be made into a fit member of the family,
or a social success, the family can do it partially with
ignorance.
-
The
great achievements of education today are seen as
socially successful individuals.
-
The
help they have received from the parents and the family
is social, psychological, physical, not spiritual.
-
As
long as a school is trying to create socially successful
individuals, this wide theoretical knowledge is of great
value, because with the greatest knowledge possible in
the world we are trying to achieve a tiny goal.
-
It is
like a man living in a mango grove of a thousand trees,
wanting to eat mango. (MSS)
On
Creativity
Higher education enables more creativity. Creative education enables
accelerated creativity. Creative self-knowledge enables vast creativity.
Supermental lifestyle is ongoing infinite creativity.
Education
in Mother Tongue
Teaching the mother tongue is a serious requirement for any
school that wants the child to develop a balanced
personality. The mother tongue gives a depth which no
foreign language can give.
(MSS)
The Knowledge or
System of Education that enabled Stages of Historical Development
Mesopotamia led the world of civilisation. Greece, Rome, Europe,
England and USA led the world in succession, Greece by knowledge,
Rome by law, Europe by Reformation, England by sea trade and empire.
Now USA leads the world by economic power, accumulated wealth and
technology. It is noteworthy to see knowledge behind all these
movements either in the shape of collective knowledge or system of
education. (MSS)
Infinity of
God in Mathematics
The
mathematics teacher asked his students ‘‘What is zero divided
by zero?’’ Srinivasa Ramanujam was in that class. He rose and
answered ‘‘Infinity’’. To him zero is God and Infinity is
Manifestation, the world. Bhaskaracharya proved that 0/0 is
infinity. The concept of Infinity takes the subject mathematics
to spirituality.
(MSS, abridged)
The History Of
Civilisation Can Be Written As The Record Of Progress In Education.
His physical body learned to survive
by vital sensation.
That was the inheritance from his animal
ancestors.
He lived in herds of men. He learned
to value collective security.
Education of vital sensation to preserve the
vital body is upgraded over centuries from Individual preservation to
collective security.
The collective security gave the
pride of place to physical prowess. Its other side was to destroy the
weak, even if it is his own children.
Organised physical strength.
The physical coming into its own has
thrown up the leadership of a BRUTE.
The behaviour of a brute, the cruelty of the malicious, the tyranny of
the vulgar became the culture of the period.
Physical strength becomes crude culture.
Physical withdrew into the immediate
rear, giving place to vital pride that went along with ostentatious
splendour. When the line is crossed by the equilibrium, brutality rises
in full.
The physical with its splendour of cruelty lies
in wait just below the surface.
Pardon becomes a way of life. Prior
to that, physical punishment remains but the victim is allowed to choose
the mode of punishment.
Crude physical acquires the 'magnanimity' of
mitigation.
Fairness emerged in the physical
crudeness – Duel came into existence.
Fairness of the physical establishes its own
superiority.
Duel is abolished in law, but
flourished under the surface.
Physical dual gives place to vital annihilation
without any semblance of right, good or honour.
Parliamentary democracy was the
first occasion to replace might by right – the right of the ignorant.
Today Parliaments are irrational, vulgar,
crude, and false. Still this is the best available. To know their true
character and suffer them is wisdom. To honour them is foolish.
The progress of the English language
as expected of a gentleman has anticipated all the levels of progress
mind has to go through for another thousand years.
Nothing in the world appears suddenly. Its true
beginning is the beginning of creation.
Till 500 or 400 years ago, education
meant experience, experience of age, except for the royalty and top
echelon of aristocracy.
First discovery of descent.
To extend it even a little, the
physical of the collectivity had to give up its possessiveness and
recognise the reality of others' existence.
Selfishness relents, cracks show up.
Selfishness upgrades from vital
selfishness to mental selfishness. It means those who approve of your
idea are your friends.
Broadening selfishness into possible semblance
of selflessness.
Reason is coordinating intelligence.
It is EGO.
To know reason is the knowledge of Ego is
worldly wisdom.
Intellectuality is efficient ego,
going by the name of Reason.
Intellectuality is inert, is an efficient bar
to knowledge.
Knowledge begins with insight and
intuition. It matures when the intuition transfers itself from outside
to inside.
It is supramental intuition. To it there is no
evil. (MSS)
MSS
Articles on Education
Education the World Does Not Know
Education
Notes on the 200 Points of Education
Children Education
Teaching is One
Part of Education
Educating the
Child
A Look at Experiments in Accelerating Education
Genius of the
Child
The Energy Behind
the Genius
School that is Miniature of Future Society
Value Formation & Education
Related Articles
What Does Education Mean? (answered by children)
Santa Claus
Newspaper as a
Tool of Teaching a Language
Information --
Spiritual Grace
(MSS)
On the Value of Reading Fiction
Reading and
Writing
To Be
Categorized
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I |
Education
Knowledge |
Acquiring
Knowledge Quickly through Education
Time was abridged as one acquires knowledge by education and not by
experience. (MSS) |
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III |
Education |
Over-Reading by
First Generation of Well-Educated
The first generation of good education superstitiously reposes its
faith in extensive reading. It will certainly do good to below
average children, not to kids educated very well. Such excessive
reading will always tend to non-thinking reading material. The
capacity to think will be the casualty. (MSS) |
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III |
Education |
No Dull Students
In teaching, progressive methods do not admit that there are dull
pupils. Only that we have not yet learned how to handle them.
(MSS) |
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III |
Education,
Literacy
USA
Japan |
Universal
Literacy in Nations
Universal literacy created such a stir in Japan and in many
European countries. It played that role in great intensity in
the USA. (MSS) |
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III |
Education
Culture |
Education
that Enables Culture: Poverty Prevents
Education
Culture is the best ingredient of Mind that makes it level
headed or great. It is education that prepares the mind to
receive culture. (MSS) |
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Hunger & Poverty Prevent Education
Man thinks of education when his stomach is full. Hunger
prevents one from seeking education. (MSS) |
