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only comes in afterwards to see what profit it can have of the shining harvest. Intuition gives us that idea of something behind and beyond all that we know and seem to be which pursues man always in contradiction of his lower reason and all his normal experience and impels him to formulate that formless perception in more positive ideas of God, Immortality, Heaven and the rest by which we strive to express it to the mind." " Vedas say:
"The intellectual understanding is only the lower knowledge (buddhi)', there is another and a higher knowledge (buddhi) which is not intelligence but vision, is not understanding but rather an over standing in knowledge."!! V. Education of the future:
1. Thinkers and scientists have visualised the future changes which are likely to occur as a result of scientific and technological advancement. Dr Philip Handler says: “In the near future, each individual will have a private, pocket size, two way television instrument and immediate personal access to a computer serving as his news source.” He further says, “Less than five percent of the working population will be engaged in primary agriculture, with no more than another 20 percent engaged in other productive activities. The bulk of the labour force will engage in services rather than production of goods. The principal pursuit of mankind will be cultural, recreational or devoted to the expansion of knowledge and understanding”. 12
2. The future is the future of mankind. The future 'should not be just hope and opportunity. The future should be absolutely ours.' We have to create a future which is really 'golden'. Future means the new age, new way of life, new education... the new man who is the greatest revolution that has evear happened in the world. It is a future in which ‘man can avoid all the miseries, all the jealousies, all those angers, all those wars and destructive tendencies.'
The future is a golden one and the new man is going to live his life -not according to ideals but according to his own longings, his own passionate intuitions.
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