Talk delivered at RIMSE by Swami Vireshanandaji
Swami Vivekananda Vision
- Man making education
- Manliness=confidence+character+universal love+focus(concentration)
- Manifest ability, lofty ideas, power of concentration
- Weakness=poverty+caste+oppresion of women+faulty education+neglect of masses
- Character building education
- Vision
- Organization through Machinery to bring noble ideas to the doorstep of everyone
- Education is the panacea for all evils of the country
Ancient education
- Fundamental concepts of upanishads
- Student learns by himself – quoted the story of student asked to do tapasya till he is ready
- SIM analogy? Sensory organs working through the Intellect to develop the Mind
- Learning is organic
- QTIME analogy of expanding and shrinking knowledge?
- Concentration (one facet of effort dimension?)
- Master all the FOUR dimensions to reach the next level – spiritual dimension?
- Student
- Self dependent
- Use text book only as a tool
- CII – embracing kids as kids?
- Discovers divinity by himself – think divinity
- Para vidya – discovering divinity
- Apara vidya – preparing grounds for para vidya
- Character formation
- Increasing one’s own estimation of himself
For whom
- For body, mind and intellect
- SIM analogy?
Fundamental concepts
- Concentration
- Education is the manifestation of the perfection that is already in you
- Potential Energy converted to Kinetic Energy
- Potential Energy
- Acquire step of QTIME
- Kinetic Energy
- Begin, Connect, Discover steps of QTIME?
- Self Effort
- Concentration if the essence of education
- How to manifest concentration
What is Education?
- Character is formed – Through T dimension of QTIME
- Strength of mind is increased – Through E dimension of QTIME
- Intellect is expanded – Through M dimension of QTIME
- Learn to stand on your own feet – Though I dimension of QTIME
- Couple western science with Vedaanta
- Brahmacharya – Controlling the body and mind
- Shradha and Faith in yourself – Shradha – positive state of mind to receive education
- Personal contact with the teacher
- Guru gruha vaasa
- Students to learn to emulate the teacher
- Not book learning; not diverse knowledge
- It is the training by which current flow(?) and expression of will are brought under control and becomes fruitful
Meta physical dimension
- Could be equivalent to calling it as religion
- Manifestation of perfection – to earn bread and butter
- Manifestation of religion – reaching meta-physical dimension
Education as a movement
- Love for the pupil
- Love for the subject
Teacher -has the adeptness in the subject of teaching