Friday, November 28, 2008

What is education?

Education is the means of unfolding the moral and spiritual potentialities of man. Education reveals to man what is right and what is wrong. Education today is concerned with imparting worldly knowledge, with no place for ethics or spirituality. All along education has remained an exercise in acquiring bookish knowledge. What is needed today is practical knowledge. Every student should acquire a good character, moral values, and develop a spiritual bent of mind. These three constitute true learning