Education
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
Education is about making the child grow with an uncluttered intelligence. An intelligence that is not identified and entangled in religion, doctrine, or prejudice will naturally lead to ultimate blossoming of the individual.
Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their own customs, privileges, or beliefs.
Education is education. We should learn everything and then choose which path to follow. Education is neither Eastern nor Western, it is human.
A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.
To study and not think is a waste. To think and not study is dangerous.
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
Our social structures have created extremely complicated survival processes. A child’s ability to look at life with utter freshness and involvement is slowly disappearing. It is the duty and responsibility of our educational systems to bring that back. Education can never be a profession – it must be a passion. In the process of education, it is very important to see that the child does not lose his joyfulness, his spontaneity, or his ability to be truthful without any fear of consequence. At the Home School, we are striving to create the necessary platform where education is not about loading the child’s mind with information, but about making the child’s mind capable of razor sharp perception, capable of knowing life in its full depth and dimension. Education is about expanding the horizons of human experience and becoming inclusive. Only in a state of inclusiveness can the empowerment of education become a bounty all of us may cherish.
Education, more than anything else, improves our chances of building better lives.
Suppose you and I are walking and you’re in competition with me. You will either get to walk slightly faster than me or probably less than me and feel depressed about it. If you walk little faster than me, you are going to be thinking you have reached the peak of your life; if you fall behind me, you’ll feel depressed that you can’t walk as fast as me. But if you’re not in competition with myself, you would explore the possibilities of what you could do and maybe, we don’t know… you could fly! I can walk fast, maybe you could fly. But you will miss out the possibility of flying because you’re in competition with me. All you want to do is take few steps more than me. So, the very human potential is distorted because people are in competition. Right now, people believe that you will not propel yourself to your fullest if you are not in competition, which is a very, very false idea. We have cultivated that in societies that you believe you will not reach your full potential unless you’re in competition, not at all true.
Inclusive, good-quality education is a foundation for dynamic and equitable societies.
Actually, only when a human being is in a very extended periods of joyfulness, blissfulness, he will stretch himself to the limits and do what he could do to the fullest. When he’s in competition, when he’s in fear of failure, he will only do little better than somebody else. You’re destroying the human genius through the process of education, teaching competition. It’s all about getting two marks more than the one who is sitting next to you. In this mode of competition, only one can win. All others are losers, isn’t it? It’s a horrible way to create a society. What I’m saying is the gardener in this school is as important for us as the headmistress of the school. So, that’s what the children are constantly perceiving. We are not saying these things as philosophies, but that’s the atmosphere that is set. The one who cleans the place, one who cooks for us, is as important as the teacher who teaches you science or literature or runs the school or me who visits once in a way to give them a different perspective of the whole thing.
One child, one teacher, one book and one pen can change the world.