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Sri Aurobiondo’s views on Education


Sri Aurobiondo’s views on Education :-


       Sir aurobindo always laid great stress on education. He himself had the best education while in Cambridge, and between 1897 and 1906, was a professor in the Bengal National College. So he knew the question in depth. And he had hopes in the young. He trusted that youth can give their good contribution in rebuilding the nation. Sir Auribindo never tired of calling for what he termed “ a national education”. He gave his brief 
 definition for it. 

 
                                    The education which starting with the past and making full use of the present builds up a great nation. Whoever wishes to cut off the nation from its past is no friend of our national growth. Whoever fails to take advantages of the present is losing us the battle of life. We must therefore save for India all that she has stored up of knowledge, character and noble thought in her immemorial past. We must acquire for her best knowledge that Europe can give her and assimilate it to her own peculiar type of national temperament. We must introduce the best methods of teaching humanity has developed, whether modern or ancient. And all these we must harmonise into a system which will be impregnated with the spirit of self-reliance so as to build up men and not machines.
                                       Sir aurobindo had little love for British education in India, which he called a ‘‘  mercenary and soulless education,” and for its debilitating influence on the “ the innate possibilities” of the Indian brain. “ In India,” he said “ the students generally have great capacities, but the system of education represses and destroys these capacities.” As in every field, he wanted India to crave out her own path courageously:

The greatest knowledge and the greatest riches man can possess are India’s by inheritance; she has that for all mankind is waiting but the full soul rich with the inheritance of the past, the widening gains of the present, and the large potentiality of the future, can come only by a system of National Education. It can not come by any extension or imitation of the system of the existing universities with its radically false principles, its vicious and mechanical methods, its dead-alive routine tradition and its narrow and sightless spirit. Only a new spirit and a new body born from the heart of the Nation and full of the light and hope of it’s resurgence can create it.  
                                           Young Indians are increasingly deprived from their rightful heritage, cut off from their deeper roots. He have often found himself in the curious position of explaining to some of them the symbolic meaning of an   ancient Indian myth, for instance or worse, of having to narrate the myth it self. Again, a French or English child will be given at least some semblance of cultural identity, whatever its worth; but here, in this country which not long ago had the most living culture in the world, a child is given no nourishing food only some insipid, unappetizing hodgepodge, cooked in the west and pickled in India. This means that in the name of some irrational principles, India as an entity is throwing away some precious treasures.  As Sri Aurobindo put it :
Ancient India’s culture, attacked by European modernism, overpowered in the material field, betrayed by the indifference of her children, may perish for ever along with the soul of the nation that holds it in its keeping.
             Young Indians are increasingly deprived from their deeper roots. He have often found

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