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EDUCATION OF THE FUTURE
I. Introduction:
Dr. S Radhakrishnan, a great thinker and philosopher of India says, “Ancient Greece and India agree in holding that it is the aim of education to train us to apprehend human virtues and the simple decencies of life. We must educate not for cruelty and power but for love and kindness. We must develop the freshness of feeling for nature, the sensitiveness of soul to human need. We must foster the freedom of the mind, the humanity of the heart, the integrity of the individual."
Civilizations have advanced and the quality of life has improved with the difference that science and technology have brought into our lives. “Man's highest aspiration - his seeking for perfection, his longing for freedom and mastery, his search after pure truth and unmixed delight - is in flagrant contradiction with his present existence and normal experience.... Life evolves out of Matter, Mind out of Life, because they are already involved there: Matter is a form of veiled Life, Life a form of Veiled Mind. Man's highest aspiration would then only indicate the gradual unveiling of the Spirit within, the preparation of a higher life upon earth.” II Education : Then and Now :
In past the society was static in its vision, children did their parents' occupation and there was a little change from one generation to another. This was so till almost up to 15th century - almost
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