Spread of education
Spread of education
Spread of education
Spread of Education
The whole difference between the West and the East is this: They are nations, we are not, i.e. civilization, education in the West is general, and it penetrates into the masses. The higher classes in India and America are the same, but the distance is infinite between the lower classes of the two countries. Why was it so easy for the English to conquer India? It was because they are a nation, we are not.
When one of our countrymen dies, we must sit for centuries to have another; they can produce them as fast as they die. It is the dearth of great ones. Why so? Because they have such a bigger field of recruiting their great ones, we have so small. A nation of 1139964932 people has the smallest field of recruiting its great ones compared with nations of thirty, forty, or sixty millions, because the number of educated men and women in those nations is so great. Now do not mistake me this is the great defect in our nation and must be removed. Educate and raise the masses, and thus alone a nation is possible.
You know the following sayings- " Look upon your mother as God, look upon your father as God", but I say look upon the poor, the destitute, the illiterate, the ignorant, and the afflicted as God. Know that service to these alone is the highest religion.
Education is not the amount of information that is put into your brain and runs riot there, undigested, all your life. We must have life-building, man-making, character-making, assimilation of ideas. If you have assimilated five ideas and made them your life and character, you have more education than any man who has got by heart a whole library. The ideal, therefore, is that we must have the whole education of our country, spiritual and secular, in our hands, and it must be on national lines, through national lines, through national methods as far as practical.
But, the great difficulty in the way of educating the poor is this. Even supposing we are in a position to open schools in each village free, still the poor boys would rather go to the plough to earn their living than come to your school. Neither have we the money nor can we make them come to education. The problem seems hopeless. I have found a way out. It is this.
If the poor cannot come to education, education must reach them at the plough, in the factory, everywhere. There are thousands of single minded, self-sacrificing Sannyasins in our own country, going from village to village, teaching religion. If some of them can be organized as teachers of secular things also, they will go from place to place, from door to door, not only preaching but teaching also. Let this men go from village to village bringing not only religion to the door of everyone but also education.
Now suppose the villagers after their day's work have come to their village and sitting under a tree or somewhere are smoking and talking the time away. Suppose two of these educated Sannyasins get hold of them and with a camera throw astronomical or other pictures, scenes from different nations, histories, etc. Thus with globes, maps, etc.- and all this orally-how much can be done..?
It is not that the eye is the only door of knowledge, the ear can do all the same. So they would have ideas and morality and hope for better. Here our work ends.
They are to be given ideas; their eyes are to be opened to what is going on in the world around them, and they will work out their own salvation. Our duty is to put the chemicals together, the crystallization will come through God's laws. Let us put ideas into their heads, and they will do the rest. Now this means educating the masses.
- Rohit Sanjay Satarke
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