Quotes on education by swami vivekananda

• • • • • • • • • • Educational Quotes for Teachers and Students • “Education costs money, but then so does ignorance.” — Claus Moser • “The Hunter who chases two rabbits will catch neither.” — Unknown • “Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.” — Ernest Dimnet • “We should not teach children the sciences but give them a taste for them.” — Jean Jacques Rosseau • “Never be afraid to try something new. Remember amateurs built the ark, but professionals built the Titanic.” — Unknown • “Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement; nothing can be done without hope and confidence.” — Helen Keller • “If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.” —Abraham Maslow • “Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them become what they are capable of becoming.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe • “Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life. Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism.” — Dr. David M. Burns • “You haven’t failed, until you stop trying.” — Unknown • “Learning never exhausts the mind. — Leonardo Da Vinci • “Success comes in cans, failure in can’ts.” — Unknown • “Worry is a misuse of the imagination.” — Mary Crowley • “Every artist was at first an amateur.” — Ralph W. Emerson • “A turtle makes progress when it sticks its neck out.” —Anon • “If what you...

Introduction Swami Vivekananda (1863 – 1902), a great thinker and reformer of India, embraces education, which for him signifies ‘man-making’, as the very mission of his life. In this paper, which purports to expound and analyze Vivekananda’s views on education, an endeavor has been made to focus on the basic theme of his philosophy, viz. the spiritual unity of the universe. Whether it concerns the goal or aim of education, or its method of approach or its component parts, all his thoughts, we shall observe, stem from this dormant theme of his philosophy which has its moorings in Vedanta. Vivekananda realizes that mankind is passing through a crisis. The tremendous emphasis on the scientific and mechanical ways of life is fast reducing man to the status of a machine. Moral and religious values are being undermined. The fundamental principles of civilization are being ignored. Conflicts of ideals, manners and habits are pervading the atmosphere. Disregard for everything old is the fashion of the day. Vivekananda seeks the solutions of all these social and global evils through education. With this end in view, he feels the dire need of awakening man to his spiritual self wherein, he thinks, lies the very purpose of education. The Goal or Objective of Education Vivekananda points out that the defect of the present-day education is that it has no definite goal to pursue. A sculptor has a clear idea about what he wants to shape out of the marble block; similarly, a painter know...

His Early Life and respectable Bengali Kayastha family in Calcutta and had eight other siblings. From a very young age, Swami Vivekananda was interested in spirituality because of his mother’s religious nature. He even used to meditate in front of the images of gods and goddesses like Shiva, Rama, Sita, and Hanuman. He was also captivated by monks. Image – Wikimedia Swami Vivekananda was the only student who received first–division marks in the Presidency College’s entrance examination. He was a keen reader and was passionate about an ample range of subjects like philosophy, religion, art, social science, history, and literature. He was fascinated by Hindu scriptures such as the Vedas, the Bhagavad Gita, the Upanishads, the Ramayana, the Mahabharata, and the Puranas as well. Swami Vivekananda knew Indian classical music and he even studied Western philosophy, European history, Sanskrit scriptures, and Bengali literature. He passed his Fine Arts examination in 1881 and in the year 1884, he completed his Bachelor of Arts degree. Swami Vivekananda’s college principal, William Hastie even wrote that Narendra (Swami Vivekananda) is a genius and that he has never came across a boy like him. He even said that Narendra is bound to make his mark in life. Swami Vivekananda can speed reading and be known for his extraordinary and vast memory which is why he was even called a shrutidhara, a person who has a prodigious memory. Who is Swami Vivekananda? Image – Swami Vivekananda was a s...

Motivational Swami Vivekananda Education Quotes and Thoughts on Education Swami Vivekananda (1863–1902), born Narendranath Datta, was a Great Indian Hindu monk, philosopher, guru, author, religious teacher, and the chief disciple of the Indian mystic Ramakrishna his groundbreaking speech to the 1893 World’s Parliament of Religions in which he proudly introduced Hinduism to America and called for religious tolerance and an end to fanaticism. Swami Vivekananda Education Quotes with images “There is no limit to the power of the Human Mind. The more concentrated it is, the more power is brought to bear on one point. “The greatest truths are the simplest things in the world, simple as your own existence. “Believe in yourself and the world will be at your feet. “How has all this knowledge become available in the world other than by concentrating the powers of the mind? If only it is known how to knock on the door of nature – how to strike it, then that’s it, nature reveals all its secrets. Whatever you think that you will be. If you think yourself weak, weak you will be; If you think of yourself as strong, you will be. Do one thing at a time, and while doing that put your whole soul into it to the exclusion of all else. The world’s great gymnasium is where we come to make ourselves strong. Learn everything that is good from others, but bring it in, and in your own way absorb it; do not become others” “The powers of the mind are like rays of light scattered here and there. When s...

“Although a man has not studied a single system of philosophy, although he does not believe in any God, and never has believed, although he has not prayed even once in his whole life, if the simple power of good actions has brought him to that state where he is ready to give up his life and all else for others, he has arrived at the same point to which the religious man will come through his prayers and the philosopher through his knowledge; and so you may find that the philosopher, the worker, and the devotee, all meet at one point, that one point being self-abnegation.” ― Swami Vivekananda, “It is a weakness to think that any one is dependent on me, and that I can do good to another. This belief is the mother of all our attachment, and through this attachment comes all our pain. We must inform our minds that no one in this universe depends upon us; not one beggar depends on our charity; not one soul on our kindness; not one living thing on our help. All are helped on by nature, and will be so helped even though millions of us were not here. The course of nature will not stop for such as you and me; it is, as already pointed out, only a blessed privilege to you and to me that we are allowed, in the way of helping others, to educate ourselves. This is a great lesson to learn in life, and when we have learned it fully, we shall never be unhappy; we can go and mix without harm in society anywhere and everywhere.” ― Swami Vivekananda, “Absolute equality, that which means a pe...

In this website we are writing a series of articles on Swami Vivekananda‘s quotations on education. Now the topic of out this article is Swami Vivekananda‘s quotations on man-making education. Man-making education Swami Vivekananda told— • No more weeping, but stand on your feet and be men. It is a man-making religion that we want. It is man-making theories that we want. It is man-making education all round that we want. And here is the test of truth — anything that makes you weak physically, intellectually, and spiritually, reject as poison; there is no life in it, it cannot be true. Truth is strengthening. Truth is purity, truth is all-knowledge; truth must be strengthening, must be enlightening, must be invigorating. These mysticisms, in spite of some grains of truth in them, are generally weakening. Believe me, I have a lifelong experience of it, and the one conclusion that I draw is that it is weakening. • The education that you are getting now has some good points, but it has a tremendous disadvantage which is so great that the good things are all weighed down. In the first place it is not a man-making education, it is merely and entirely a negative education. A negative education or any training that is based on negation, is worse than death. The child is taken to school, and the first thing he learns is that his father is a fool, the second thing that his grandfather is a lunatic, the third thing that all his teachers are hypocrites, the fourth that all the sacred ...