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eloquently in his monumental work, “What is needed at this stage of human destiny is neither a philosophy of total transcendence which would leave human beings essentially powerless, nor a philosophy of immanence alone which leaves the world at the mercy of the hostile power”.
“Rather, what we need is an integrated, hostile philosophy in which human existence is looked upon as a rare gift which must be utilized both for inner development and for the welfare of society and the world.” Let through Education for peace in schools, our younger generation know that " an enemy is created and wars engineered for the benefit and whims of a privileged few. They invoke religion and nationalism for their crimes and clearly believes that many lies become dubious truth. And people can be bought with that dubious truth. They invoke religion and nationalism so they may sleep at night and not have their bloodletting haunt them”. Let our students know that "those who engineer wars remain untouched by the brutality and suffering of war”. Let our students know that, “The war kills and kills needlessly”. Let, at the top of all these realistic facts, our students know and accept with total faith that: “Peaceful co-existence is the only way of existence in this world”. “And let us all know that : “Peace is Life, war is death."
Epilogue :
“PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION”
The Underline Idea of “National Policy on Education - 1986” It is tbe Philosophy of Education that decides its role and aims and objectives. We had earlier the objective : an enculturation of the student; to fit the student in the existing frame of culture. Just like the regimentalization, enculturation of education was found to be insufficient. It was neither interesting nor progressive. Here the individual had no scope to realise his best-self, and because the individual was not, in a position of realising his best self the progress
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