OF EDUCATION /TRUE EDUCATION

In our country the most important thing that is to be taken on first is , education . education of values and education of virtues , together . in earlier India we gave more importance to virtues but after freedom we ran to values faster and virtues were neglected . see that values are life - skills that pay an individual for material world and give him , place , post and position with money so that he may buy all that he needs for his physical life . virtues are moral traits of man that motivate him for his contribution to society as a whole . virtue is sacrifice and contribution . the western system that we took as our education , no doubt , put us on globe on equal footing with others and proved that ,we Indians are no less than any . on the other hand , we somewhat lagged a little behind in the field of virtues and morals . it is matter of great concern that even IAS officers , the great office in the country , went corrupt , not in almost all cases but in many cases . then come the teachers , doctors most reputed and now what to talk of others . they are intellectuals but not educated (properly) . here the word properly is used in sense of abuse to the word education . reality is that we have lost our moral temper .
People say -- criminals and corrupts are in the parliament , corrupts in the public office ., in industries , in media and other fields of Indian life , but see! WHERE IS THE ROOT CAUSE ? it is only Education and in Education . really Education is half - corrupt . we learn to earn for us and forgot to earn for our country. we have valu but no virtue . Gandhi , the Mahatma , said , ''service before self '' we have gone only service to self . the voter , the voted , the voting processes all are in peril in our country . if we have to rectify all this , we have too re-look our education .
Should i humbly , submit that ,is it criminal or the corrupt who is all cause of crime and corruption ? i say , no ,not at all , we and the whole society is cause of these ills . and these ills are the result of our wrong education . we respect Gandhi and Ram , this much reverence left for them , but we don't follow them . one day , an editor invited my thoughts on how to check suicide in our young students and mature officers and i told him that we should ask them to read Ram Charit Manas and Gita and see ! he laughed at me . so unwise it seemed to him that my self esteem sank to zero . but i know that it is true and correct and real , never a failure in my learning and experience of long sixty years . but he laughed and i bore it up .
We should temper our education with virtues . we should train and produce better teachers in all the faculties viz. art , science, medicine , engineering etc. an engineer should learn Gita , a doctor should know Ram Charit Manas. Gayatri Mantra should be chanted in hospitals and electric-houses . we are copying English who keep Bible in their places of worship and teach others but do not follow themselves . had they done it , they would have not enslaved the half of the world . it was Gandhi , the poor Indian who taught them what Bible means . a Pope in America wrote , '' we thought earlier that thoughts of Bible were meant for some other world , it was Gandhi who practice those principles of Bible in this world of ours , first in human history .
Therefore with present value education we have to bring back our Indian education full of morals and virtues. in our country to improve all , we need improve education . our human resource is poor only on one side , the moral side , neglected and forgot . we want an educated man in real spirit not in word . '' it is not gold but people make a nation great and strong . ''
''as far as the days of upnishads ,we thrown the challenge to the world ; '' not by progeny , not by wealth , but by renunciation and sacrifice alone immortality and grand greatness is reached . they (Western) all have failed , who had lust for power and gold and the rest are leading to misery . whether peace , patience , goodness , brain and spirituality has to survive or war , non-forbearance , wickedness ,muscle and worldliness. we have solved our problem ages ago , our solution is unworldliness -renunciation , spirituality and education of morals and virtues .'' -Swami Vivekanand.