Education 04 (Aug 12 - Dec 24)

Re: Education 04 (Aug 12 - Dec 17)

Postby winston » Sat Jun 03, 2017 11:22 pm

How can education improve the condition of the world to become better?

Education must assume full responsibility and impact students’ moral and spiritual life. Imparting technical skills and worldly information alone is not enough; moral and spiritual education must supplement them.

People pay huge attention today only to their own selfish interests. This must change.

Your attitude must be not what you can get from others, but what you can give to others – make that your focus!

The idea that a posh bungalow with expensive furniture, exquisite dining table or a heavy pay package from abroad is the ideal to be worked for should be given up. This ideal breeds evil.

Inspire youth to set as their ideal - hands dedicated to hard work, heads dedicated to service and hearts dedicated to compassion.

Your goal must be that no one should suffer harm or pain through your words or deeds. For when another is hurt by us, what really happens is insult and injury to our own true human nature.

- Divine Discourse, Mar 8, 1981.

Cultivate your heart to raise a harvest of Truth, Righteousness, Peace and Love.

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Re: Education 04 (Aug 12 - Dec 17)

Postby winston » Tue Jun 27, 2017 8:03 am

How college can ruin your life

by E.B. Tucker

If I’d had good counsel when I was in high school, I wouldn’t have gone off to college. It was fun, but a serious misallocation of time and money.

And that was when (the ‘60s) most people didn’t go to college, and it was much, much cheaper.


Education is something everyone needs. But people have been programmed to think that if they just log 4-6 years in a college, at huge expense, they’ll get one. In fact, an education is something you get for yourself; no institution can bestow one on you.

And sitting in a classroom listening to some academic drone on is probably the worst way to get one. Students cut classes, fall asleep in class, take poor notes, and daydream. Then cram for exams and forget it all the next day. College, for 90% of students, is about partying.

My suggestion is to go through the catalog of thegreatcourses.com, and start watching and listening as world class profs give command performance lectures. Listen to them as many times as you need to. The same for the curricula offered by MIT, and many other universities online.

There are many lists of great books. Read them. There are fantastic lectures on youtube. Watch them. The Internet contains all the knowledge in the world; it’s a billion times more valuable than the Library of Alexandria.

If someone wants to go to college (and it really only makes sense for science, math, engineering, and the like), then recognize its main value is the social connections you might make there.

Only Harvard, Yale, Stanford, and maybe two dozen others (out of the almost 5,000 in the US alone) can provide that kind of environment. Most colleges (and I’ve sat on the boards of two) should, and will, disappear over the next few generations. There’s a bubble in pointless “higher education.”


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http://thecrux.com/how-college-can-ruin-your-life/
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Re: Education 04 (Aug 12 - Dec 17)

Postby winston » Sun Jul 02, 2017 2:12 pm

Develop Broadmindedness

Students, youth, your hearts are tender and unsullied. Develop broadmindedness.

From this very moment itself, you must foster pure thoughts. Plant the seed of selfless love in your pure hearts. It will grow and from that tree of love, you will receive the fruits of forbearance, compassion and kindness.

Always keep smiling. Face every situation in life, including death, with a smile. Realise that there is nothing greater than truth.

Truth is Divine and righteousness is His only ornament. Adhere to these two as the highest attributes in your life.

Your words must not be mere words emerging from your lips but from the depth of your heart. There should be complete harmony in your thoughts, words and deeds.

Redeem your lives by concentrating on the Divine, cherishing good thoughts and engaging yourself in the service of your fellow-beings.

- Divine Discourse, Jan 19, 1997.

Love will be fostered only when non-violence is practiced.

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Re: Education 04 (Aug 12 - Dec 17)

Postby winston » Tue Sep 05, 2017 10:44 am

What is the best gift that teachers can offer to the society and the nation?

There is a perennial bond of pure love between teachers and students. Students can win over any teacher’s heart, and a teacher can win over students’ hearts as well. To be loved, you must love others first.

The basis of culture is, “Speak truth, practice right conduct.” Be humble. You may not always oblige, but you can always speak obligingly!

At times, teachers may need to be strict. Be so. Remember, the Divine can be harder than a diamond when the situation demands. Otherwise, He is softer than butter.

Teachers very well understand this Divine nature and must exemplify it in their behaviour too. To take students into their confidence, teachers must approach them with love and fearlessly point out their mistakes and lead them on the right path. Only then students will follow the righteous path and correct their mistakes.

For the progress and prosperity of the nation, every teacher must love their students and mould their character.

- Divine Discourse, Nov 21, 2001.

A good student is an offering that every good teacher makes to the nation.

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Re: Education 04 (Aug 12 - Dec 17)

Postby winston » Tue Sep 12, 2017 8:30 am

What is not right with our educational system today?

Several malpractices have entered the field of education.

Money is paid to gain admission into schools and colleges, and to acquire marks and degrees.

The teacher does not transmit taste, style, attitude or outlook; it is all a matter of books and more books. The student is left to gather these from outside the educational institutions.

More value is attached to information and its collection; no attempt is made to gain personal transformation and to correct one’s habits and characteristics!

How did the great artists who drew the frescoes of Ajanta and carved the temples of Ellora learn their trade? Did they attend any school? They learnt from teachers, the master craftsmen who were inspired artists. Books cannot give guidance and inspiration for real good work.

Worldly aspects must be harmonised with spiritual aspects to lead a full life. Only then can an individual have self-confidence and avoid the imitative path.

– Divine Discourse, Jan 5, 1975.

Real peace of mind has no ups and downs; it cannot be partial in adversity and whole in prosperity.

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Re: Education 04 (Aug 12 - Dec 17)

Postby winston » Wed Nov 22, 2017 12:42 pm

What should be the true goal of education?

It is essential for students to understand why morality and spirituality have disappeared from society.

Education without character, science without human values, commerce without ethics, and politics without truth are responsible for the erosion of virtue.

Students have a duty to develop patriotism and restore these forgotten values.

Today’s education makes one clever but does not instill virtue. Students transform their heads into books, without practising human values.

There is no benefit in turning your head into a book or vice versa. Recognise the path of Truth and demonstrate it in day-to-day living.

The world needs people imbued with integrity. All that is learned must culminate in behaviour.

Life today is based on show, expenditure, and comfort. Humanity’s problems can be solved not by money or science but by humanity alone.

People must transform themselves to live as human beings.

– Divine Discourse, May 20, 1991.

Education is meant for the practice of righteousness and not for acquiring wealth.

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Re: Education 04 (Aug 12 - Dec 17)

Postby winston » Sat Jan 06, 2018 12:24 pm

What is it that students must keep in mind?

Love your parents. Obey their commands. Your parents work very hard to feed you, educate you and bring you up in life.

They struggle to keep you in good mood and give you good food, good clothing and good education. If you do not respect such parents, how do you expect to be respected by society?

You must bring joy to your parents through your behaviour. When you achieve high qualifications, it promotes ego, but not humility and respect towards parents and elders.

Hence, cultivate the qualities of humility, respect and reverence assiduously. Only then will you become good citizens of the country. It is not necessary that everyone achieves greatness.

However it is important for everyone to become good citizens. Name and fame will come today and leave tomorrow. But good name will last forever. Therefore earn a good name. Think of the Divine always and earn His Grace. Your lives will certainly be sanctified!

- Divine Discourse, Jan 12, 2004.

Children can be moulded more easily through sweetness and softness which maternal affection implies.

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Re: Education 04 (Aug 12 - Dec 17)

Postby winston » Tue Feb 27, 2018 8:37 am

How to ensure that the education that the youth receive is complete?

You are not educated if all that you have achieved is the study of a ton of books.

The body and the mind have to be illumined by the light of love that emanates from the awareness of the Soul and its essential Divinity.

Since education today deals only with the body and mind, and is unrelated to the Soul, the youth of the land are wafted hither and thither by every passing gust like rootless vegetation.

Awareness of the Inner-Self will grant unshakeable power and courage. The Scriptures teach the means of securing this awareness and drawing on it to meet the challenges of life.

That alone can crown education with success. That alone can strengthen youth to encounter the problems of unrest and anxiety.

The colleges have to teach not only certain subjects, but the subject-object relationship too.

The process by which one can transcend this duality and cognise the Unity has also to be communicated to render education complete.

- Divine Discourse, Jan 31, 1974.

Be clear and content. Be moderate and wise. Be vigilant and steady. Be earnest and sweet.

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Re: Education 04 (Aug 12 - Dec 18)

Postby winston » Fri Sep 07, 2018 11:47 am

What is the highest sacrifice a teacher should be prepared to perform? What is its reward?

Teachers and Gurus, the children you claim to be yours are born out of desire, but children who come to you to learn are drawn to you by selfless love.

In reality, more than your own children, these pure-hearted innocent children truly deserve your time and love. Hence teach them with love and dedication.

Sacrifice is the real spiritual path. Give, and you gain. Enjoyment results in disease. Grab, and you lose! Recognise the truth of these axioms.

There may be many amongst you who intellectually recognise their validity but have had no opportunity to translate them into action. In the Scriptures, "Be an instrument!"

Be the Divine’s instrument and build a bridge between humanity and Divinity.

Dedicate all your skill, strength and scholarship to this great sacrifical offering.

- Divine Discourse, Jul 25, 1978.

The destiny of a country is decided by the ideals implanted by the teachers in the minds of the boys and girls entrusted to their care.

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Re: Education 04 (Aug 12 - Dec 18)

Postby winston » Sun Sep 23, 2018 12:36 pm

Learning is not experience

The word learning has great significance.

There are two kinds of learning. For most of us learning means the accumulation of knowledge, of experience, of technology, of a skill, of a language.

There is also psychological learning, learning through experience, either the immediate experiences of life, which leave a certain residue, of tradition, of the race, of society.

There are these two kinds of learning how to meet life: psychological and physiological; outward skill and inward skill.

There is really no line of demarcation between the two; they overlap.

We are not considering for the moment the skill that we learn through practice, the technological knowledge that we acquire through study.

What we are concerned about is the psychological learning that we have acquired through the centuries or inherited as tradition, as knowledge, as experience. This we call learning, but I question whether it is learning at all.

I am not talking about learning a skill, a language, a technique, but I am asking whether the mind ever learns psychologically.

It has learned, and with what it has learned it meets the challenge of life. It is always translating life or the new challenge according to what it has learned. That is what we are doing.

Is that learning? Doesn’t learning imply something new, something that I don’t know and am learning? If I am merely adding to what I already know, it is no longer learning.

The Book of Life, January 10, Harper San Francisco, 1995

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