Top 10 Educational Quotes by the Great Patriot Prophet Of India ‘Swami Vivekananda’
Swami Vivekananda’s contribution to educational thought is of supreme importance if education is observed as the most powerful instrument of social change.
On January 12, India celebrates National Youth Day and that is how India pays tribute to the great patriot 
prophet of India ‘Swami Vivekananda’ on his 154th birth anniversary. He was born as Narendranath Datta on January 12, 1863 at Calcutta. And today is Swami Vivekananda’s 154th birth anniversary. He was not only a social reformer but also an educator. His contribution to educational thought is of supreme importance if education is observed as the most powerful instrument of social change.
According to Swami Vivekananda education should cover all aspects of life – material, physical, moral, intellectual, spiritual and emotional, as education is a constant process. For him, education defines as ‘the manifestation of perfection that is already in man.’
He suggested that education should aim at reforming the human mind; it should not be for filling some facts into the brain. Education should be the preparation of life. He once said that “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. If education were identical with information, the libraries would be the greatest sages in the world and encyclopedias the rishis.”
By giving re-orientation to education, politics, economics and sociology, Swami Vivekananda wanted to remove the evils of the society. For this change, he laid stress on education as a powerful weapon.
In this article we’ll make a collection of Swami Vivekananda‘s quotes and comments on Education. This is the main article of the portal “Swami Vivekananda on Education”.
Swami Vivekananda’s quotes on education
- All the wealth of the world cannot help one little Indian village if the people are not taught to help themselves. Our work should be mainly educational, both moral and intellectual…
- Talk to yourself at least once in a Day.. Otherwise you may miss a meeting with an EXCELLENT person in this World…
- Education is not filling the mind with a lot of facts. Perfecting the instrument and getting complete mastery of my own mind [is the ideal of education]…
- Education is the manifestation of the perfection already in man…
- You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul…
- How can there be/any progress of the country without the spread of education, the dawning of knowledge?
- If education is identical with information, the libraries are the greatest sages in the world, and encyclopaedias are the Rishis…
- If the poor boy cannot come to education, education must go to him…
- The only way to bring about the levelling of caste is to appropriate the culture, the education which is the strength of the higher castes…
- There is only one purpose in the whole of life — education. Otherwise what is the use of men and women, land and wealth?
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