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Education & Social Conscience
Our established
educational systems have become career factories. This has
led to a generation of self-centered and consumer oriented
people. The only motive of every person has become to earn
the maximum amount of money. If the expected dowry is not
received, then newly married girls are put through such great
atrocities, that they commit suicide. Most of the people who
provoke the girls to commit suicide are educated. Why is our
existing educational system making us inhuman? Sarve Bharantu
Sukhinah... 'Where let all live happily ...' is a popular
slogan in our country. So how, on our holy land, are our youth
becoming so inhuman? Is it due to the educational system?
Nobody seems bothered about this issue. The Britishers turned
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were our Gurujan into salary earners. Their
need was to have obedient employees rather than nation building
teachers. Since independence, there has been no effort to
make our teachers responsibility for teaching their students
nation building ideas. Deendayal Research Institute, instead
of entering into undue controversies, has decided to develop
an essential educational system. The human body is an integrated
form of body, mind, intellect and soul. Pandit Deendayalji
highlighted this fact. But nobody bothered to try and understand
or work with these elements. The basic elements of the body
and soul work in opposing directions. The body has a tendency
to indulge in pleasures. It provokes us into accumulating
possessions beyond our capacity to consume them. It hardly
thinks about the sorrow or happiness of other human beings.
But the tendency of the soul is totally different. It gets
hurt with the sorrow of others. It always tries to comfort
others. It inspires human being to help others, rather than
accumulate material goods. It develops compassion in human
beings. To achieve a perfect balance between these two totally
opposing tendencies, education is essential. This should be
the goal of education but this basic motive has been lost.
The personality development of children begins at an early
age in our homes.
This is the preliminary process of education. But during
this period, the proper educational direction is lost. After
this, the child enters a school. In the existing education
systems, various subjects are taught that only help in acquiring
degrees. The humanitarian development of the students is overlooked
in the school. Even the teaching staffs in the schools do
not appear to be aware of the goal of education. Objectively
speaking, unless a complimentary atmosphere is created in
schools, families and society, a new generation of children
cannot be developed in a 'discrimination free' social atmosphere.
Only when this happens, will these children be able to identify
with the sorrow and happiness of the people. But due to the
lack of this atmosphere today, these children feel isolated
in society.
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