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the increase of amenities for the development of consciousness and society.
The function of non-violent system of education would be to arouse faith in the values and consciousness. The absoluteness of thought has become the reality of today, which generates violence in society but the reality is that life is relative. Therefore, when we believe in the absoluteness of our thought, it gives rise to violence and at the same time the ethical aspect of our life becomes secondary; rather it diminishes. The purpose of education imbided with non-violence is to deepen faiths in spiritual reality and prepare the ground for non-violence in its totality. In this background the principle of relativity sprouts and blossoms and it gives impetus to the conduct free from exploitation and suppression. For Yuvāchārya Sri, non-violence in education means 'to have a balanced education in which the five kinds of faculties are developed in a harmonious way':
Faculty of discretion or judgement or discrimination between desirable and undersirable, negligible and acceptable etc.
True education must develop this discriminating faculty in human personality which may be called moral discriminating faculty.
Faculty of controlling emotions. 3. Faculty of creating empathy towards all living beings. 4. Faculty of developing power-generating action. 5. Faculty of creativity.
In order to promote all the above faculties in a balanced manner Yuvāchārya Sri recommends :
Experimentation, Introspection, Suggestion.
Habit formation towards detachment, organising the camps in villages and to make acquintance with all the aspects of the body as essential pedagogy of the nonviolent education.
Yuvāchārya Sri distinguishes between the term Shiksha (education) and Vidyā (koowledge). According to him
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