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Eclucation of the Future
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the passing years and tremendous impetus given to scientific, technological and economical progress it seems a new conception of wealth has emerged.
But then with the new situation, new questions arise. Technological progress has many social, cultural, educational and even political implications, pleasant and unpleasant. On one side there is a tremendous transformation in all the phases of outer and inner life seen, and on the other great dangers are looming in the future, doubts are rising whether humanity has wisdom and strength to avoid them, The vision of the future has been depicted by many thinkers, philosophers and writers like Aldous Huxley, George Orwell etc. And, as we see, a civilization of leisure', people are beginning to feel uneasy. To conclude the picture of the present day life, I shall quote an American writer in one of the issues of ‘Life':
"Many thoughtful Americans are disturbed because as a nation we seem bereft of a sense of purpose. We have the mood and stance of a people who have 'arrived and have nowhere else to go .... We have tried to fill ourselves with science and education, with better living and pleasure, with the many other things we thought we wanted, but we are still empty and bored..... We are confused by the prejudice, hatred, greed and lust that are within us. We seem to be caught helpless in quicksand; we want out of our human dilemma but are powerless. The American genius has enabled us to change virtually everything but ourselves... It is absolutely impossible to change society and reverse the moral trend unless we ourselves are changed from the inside.,"
Sri Aurobindo, a great philosopher and spiritual leader, a yogi of twentieth century, India, asserts that "We have arrived at a great crucial moment in human evolution, where the descent of new powers of consciousness and their establishment on the earth have begun to occur. The present world crises is nothing but the break up of the past indispensable to the forward movement. On the crest of an evolutionary wave man has to yield place to a new type of being”.
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