Thoughts on the education system from one of the great spiritual minds of the 20th century
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Conventional education makes independent thinking extremely difficult
Conformity leads to mediocrity
Our present education is geared to industrialization and war, it’s principal aim to develop efficiency and we are caught in this machine of ruthless competition and mutual destruction
To understand life is to understand ourselves and that is both the beginning and end of education
Our technical progress is outstanding but it has only increased our power destroying one another
To be without fear is the beginning of wisdom
The desire to succeed inevitably breeds the fear of failure and that is why the young should not be taught to worship success
There is no essential difference b/w the old and young for both are slaves to their own desires and gratifications
People who are experiencing and therefore teaching are the only real teachers and they too will create their own technique
The so-called educated are not peace loving integrated people and they too are responsible for the confusion and misery of the world
Our problems exist in the present and it’s only in the present that they can be solved
Self knowledge is the beginning of freedom and it is only when we know ourselves that we can bring about order and peace
Hidden fears often make their presence known through dreams or other forms of imitation and they cause greate deterioration and conflict than superficial fears
The government, encouraged by organized religion, is upholding nationalism and the separatist spirit. Nationalism is a disease and it can never bring about world unity
Education is becoming more and more teaching people what to think rather than how to think
An educaator is not merely a giver of information: he is one who points the way to wisdom, to truth
True culture is founded not on the engineers or technicians but on the educators
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