Education should also elevate our mental and moral aptitude. It should removesuperstition, prejudice and bigotry. It should inculcate the passion of truth, devotion,sympathy and philanthropy. The mind should be able to seek truth in every thing.Education should enable a person to distinguish between right and wrong, essential andinessential, between fundamental and accidental. Above all, it should enable a person tothink for himself and decide for himself. This free activity of mind is the greatest gift of education but sorry to say that our educated class is totally or partially devoid of thislively characteristic. They blindly follow the thoughts and opinions of others which is aform of intellectual servitude.Similarly education should also refine our soul. Even if a man is healthy irf body andsound in mind, something is missing. Even if one can eat decently and think logically hiseducation is incomplete. One must be able to feel humanly and act rightly. A well-educated person must be refined in his thoughts and kind in his intentions. His spiritshould be sublime and fashioned according to the highest values of ethics and feeling. If vulgarity and cruelty still exists it is not worth the name. If a man is dull in his thoughts, beastly in manner and rough in his actions he is uneducated. Now if the fust aspect of education is most essential, the other two .are more important. If a man has been educated in such a way that he keeps physically fit and can earn a better livelihood, he is not higher than the level of beast who at their very birth know how tokeep themselves healthy and find food and drink for their survival. Man as a socialanimal has to raise a step above. The chief distinction between man and animal is the power of thinking and its proper functioning makes a man a rational being but even thenhe remains a rational animal. It is the third aspect of education, the development of hismoral and spiritual stature that makes man a perfect man. It is the sole characteristic thathas made man an object of reverence for angels. The negligence of this aspect of education has ruined the west and will devastate the East as well if we blindly andslavishly imitated them.The aim of education is not only to satisfy our animal needs in a better way than cats anddogs. So far man is able to cater to his physical needs or provide for his materialrequirements, he is only a little better than animals. Certainly a man neetls somethingmore than material gains and pleasure to be a man. A man may have all the facilities. Hemay live in a palace enjoy the pleasure of music, painting and reading fascinating novelsyet he is no better than a crow which builds nest in high places, has inquisitive nature.and loves noise. His heart may be as black as a crow and despite education he may betimes more dangerous because he possesses far more resources and means to satisfy his base desires. Education is not complete unless it removes the savagery of the heart anddiscipline the wild nature of man. Truly speaking, the modern scientifically advancedman is only half educated. Despite reading books his mind is coarse. He sees atoms buthis rnmd is blind. His house is brilliantly lit but his soul gropes in the dark. He makeslethal weapons and bombs to destroy his enemy but is unable to end his own savagery. Naturally he cannot be at peak with himself or with the world. Our aim is not to derogatescience and scientific achievements but to emphasize the ethical and spiritual values of
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