Question: Then what should be the basis of education?
Shri Shri Thakur: One should try to learn all that should be learnt, as much as
possible. The languages of different countries should be taught, the subject of
science should be mastered – and all these should not be merely studied, they
must be realised through practical training.1
Foot notes:
1 – "Mere learning is not the ideal, and prodigies of scholarship are always
morbid. The rule should be to keep nothing that is not to become practical; to
open no brain tracts which are not to be highways for the daily traffic of
thought and conduct; not to overburden the soul with the impedimenta of
libraries and records of what is a far off in time or zest, and always to follow
truly the guidance of normal and spontaneous interests wisely interpreted." ¯
`Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene' by G. Stanley Hall
[Ref: Nana Prasange Vol.1, Ninth Edition, Dec-2001, Page 43]
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