End of education is character...

Until about fifty years ago, educational establishments everywhere regarded character development and training students to be good citizens as very high in their list of priorities. Lately, however, the stress has shifted almost exclusively to imparting worldly skills. When values cease to have any place in the scheme of education, Society ends up paying a heavy price. Indeed, a good fraction of the crime today is committed by intelligent and clever college-educated people, as should be evident from the number of corporate frauds, cyber crimes, high-level corruption, etc. Thus it is that a leading academic in the West remarked with much frustration that universities are currently reduced to training "clever devils".

All these aberrations occur when one forgets that the Atma is the most important component of a human being. Education must cater equally, and in balanced proportion, to the needs of the body, the Mind and the Soul, and not merely the "Head" as he puts it.

Real education is that which enables one to utilise the knowledge one has acquired for making happy as many people as possible. Born in Society, one has the duty to work for its welfare and progress.

Good teachers + Good students = Great Nation! 

It is necessary to foster human values along with the growth of Science and Technology. Students should attach more importance to the cultivation of virtues than in being clever and in the acquisition of mere worldly skills.