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| Article Name : | | | EDUCATIONAL PHILOSOPHY OF SWAMI VIVEKANANDA, AUROBINDO AND DR. SARVEPALLI RADHAKRISHNAN | | Author Name : | | | Sanat Kumar Rath | | Publisher : | | | Ashok Yakkaldevi | | Article Series No. : | | | GRT-6114 | | Article URL : | |  | Author Profile View PDF In browser | | Abstract : | | | Swami Vivekananda stressed on giving the public only positive education, because negative thoughts weaken men. Swami Vivekananda told, if young boys and girls are encouraged and are not unnecessarily criticized all the time, they are bound to improve in time. In New York, Vivekananda used to observe the Irish colonists come – downtrodden, haggard-looking, destitute of all possessions at home, penniless, and wooden-headed – with their only belongings, a stick and a bundle of rags hanging at the end of it, fright in their steps, alarm in their eyes. Vivekananda observed a completely different spectacle in next six months- the man walks upright, his attire is changed. In his eyes and steps there is more fright. Sri Aurobindo’s (1956) concept of ‘education’ is not only acquiring information, but “the acquiring of various kinds of information’’, he points out, “is only one and not the chief of the means and necessities of education: its central aim is the building of the powers of the human mind and spirit”. “If we take any philosopher as a guru, if we treat his works as gospel, if we make of his teaching a religion complete with dogma and exegesis, we may become members of his congregation of the faithful, but will not possess the openness of mind essential for a critical understanding of the master’s views. The true teachers help us to think for ourselves in the new situations which arise. | | Keywords : | | |
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