Education today is a process of filling the mind with the contents of books, emptying the contents in the examination hall and returning empty-headed.
SAI BABAEducation must be orientated towards the attainment of character for leading clean simple lives.
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Man is lost and is wandering in a jungle where real values have no meaning. Real values can have meaning to man only when he steps on to the spiritual path, a path where negative emotions have no use.
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Education is not acquisition of burdensome information regarding objects and men. It is the awareness of the immortal spirit within, which is the spring of joy, peace and courage.
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You must be a lotus, unfolding its petals when the sun rises in the sky, unaffected by the slush where it is born or even the water which sustains it!
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The learned man’s life itself shines as the message for mankind.
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Education must assume full responsibility to enter the moral and spiritual lives of pupils.
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Wisdom flashes like lightening amidst the clouds of the inner sky; one has to foster the flash, and preserve the light. That is the true sign of the ‘educated’ person.
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The objective of education should be impressed on the children’s minds. The academic education of today is shallow and useless because it has no value orientation.
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Character is the most precious gift of education.
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Man seeks to change the foods available in nature to suit his tastes, thereby putting an end to the very essence of life contained in them.
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Education must open the eyes and enable them to recognise the One behind the many.
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True beauty lies in true education.
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Education has to endow you with an eagerness to surrender.
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A house must be built on solid foundations if it is to last. The same principle applies to man, otherwise he too will sink back into the soft ground and becomes swallowed up by the world of illusion.
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The ideal of service and the urge to practice it form the very heart of education.
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Humility, reverence, compassion, forbearance, sacrifice and self-control are the qualities that reveal the outcome of the true education.
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What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and acts of the moment that create your future. The outline of your future path already exists, for you created its pattern by your past.
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The universe is a great university.
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Education has to be welcomed as a Spiritual Practice for the establishment of Peace in the individual heart as well as in society including the human commonwealth.
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Not living for food, but living for the sake of an ideal, that is the goal of education.
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The sign of a person who has had an education is good manners.
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The end of knowledge is wisdom The end of culture is perfection The end of wisdom is freedom The end of education is character. And character consists of eagerness to renounce one’s selfish greed.
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Whatever creature comes to you, human or otherwise, treat it with consideration.
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Selfless service alone gives the needed strength and courage to awaken the sleeping humanity in one’s heart.
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True knowledge is that which establishes harmony and synthesis between ience on the one hand and spirituality and ethics on the other.
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Unity of minds, natural love and co-operation, are the qualities we have to develop today. Education is not for securing university degrees.
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What is necessary is not EHV, but 3-HV: (Head-Heart-and Hands). The hands should carry out what the heart and approved of the ideas emanated from the head.
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