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TULSI-PRAJNA
Vidya or knowledge means only to know the reality but education means to act according to knowledge.
Education or learning is concerned with repetition or excercises. It means to bring knowledge in habit (Adhigama) or imbibe the knowledge. Broadly speaking. education is of two kinds :
1. Education to conceive or to understand, 2. Education to act.
It also includes both science and spirituality (Aparāvidyā and Parāvidyā). According to Yuvachārya Sri when our education and knowledge are not followed by conduct, it becomes ignorance. For the essence of knowledge is conduct-(Nānassa Sāramāyāro).
Yuvāchārya Sri emphasises on the value education in both the school and higher education. According to him, education cannot be separated from the values. Today we feel the necessity of value education because the present education is divorced from values, which has augmented the element of violence in the upiversity and campuses In order to free education from violence he suggests nonviolent method of non-cooperation and adherence to Anuvrata. Simultaneously he also suggests that there should be a tripartite meeting of Vice-chancellors, guardians and teachers to probe into the problem of the campuses.
Thus, on the whole, Yuvāchārya Sri emphasizes on the value-oriented social sciences i.e. the social sciences of non-violence. In fact, his view is not at all contradictory to the view held by modern Physics. The development in modern Physics has marginalised the difference between fact and values, subject and object, subjectivity and objectivity. The fact and values are parallel in our life; both have their own jurisdiction to make life more and more rich. If the social scientists do not change their attitude towards the social sciences which are more or less governed by the old concept of objectivity and certainty, they will not be able to transform the society.
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