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Three Fundamentals of Education

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"We have to keep in view three fundamentals before imparting education. The first is that education must always be based on factuality. There must not be the injection of any dogma or fanaticism or any type of geographical or racial chauvinism in the education system.

The second fundamental is that education must awaken the thirst for knowledge in the students' minds. The students themselves will create environmental pressure by persistent demands for answer to queries like: What is the answer? Is it correct? The longing, "I wish to know ... I wish to understand and assimilate the entire universe" should be created. Such a thirst for knowledge should be created in the minds of students. a learner, in Arabic, is called "ta'lib-ul-ilm", meaning "a genuine seeker of knowledge. So a tremendous thirst for knowledge must be awakened n the students' minds. They will constantly pry their teachers, their parents and their neighbours with questions like: 'Why is this so? What is that? Why does that happen? Why does this not happen?" etc. they are ready to assimilate the entire universe.

The third fundamental of education is that teachers and students should have a balanced mind, unaffected, unassailed by unimportant entities. These are the three fundamentals of education. Education is a must not only for human beings but also for all living beings. For instance, if you train a dog, you can take much work from it. If you train a cow, it will give you greater service... Proper education enables one to stand against the influence of the physical environment and awaken the psychic urge to attain a higher life, that is, the ideological goal. This gives a person much inspiration. We would do our bet to impart proper education not only to the entire humanity, but also to all created beings. We can impart training to all trees, plants and birds, and put them on the path of welfare."

~ Shrii P. R. Sarkar ~

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By Shrii P. R. Sarkar

Parents* often allege that teachers do not teach anything worthwhile nowadays, but I do not feel that this is a very well-considered remark. In actual fact they are only making excuses in order to avoid their responsibilities. At the same time, however, I should add that most teachers demonstrate, through their mental outlook or their actions, far less awareness of their social responsibilities than concern for their own interests. They do not devote even a fraction of the time and energy to building society that they spend making money by any means possible, such as by writing "made easies" [course summaries] or study guides.

    * Throughout this chapter, "parents" should be understood as "parents or guardians". --Trans.

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