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Sri Aurobindo and The Mother on Integral Education |
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The first principle of true teaching is that nothing can be taught.... The second principle is that the mind has to be consulted in its own growth....The third principle of education is to work....... more >> |
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Education to be complete must have five principal aspects corresponding to the five principal activities of the human being; the physical, the vital, the mental, the psychic and the spiritual...... more >> |
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Physical education had three principal aspects: (1) control and discipline of the functioning of the body; (2) an integral, methodical and harmonious development of all the parts and movements....... more >> |
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Sri Aurobindo
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... But the acquiring of various kinds of information is only one and
not the chief of the means and necessities of education: its
central aim is the building of the powers of the human mind
and spirit, it is the formation or, as I would prefer to view
it, the evoking of knowledge and will and of the power to use
knowledge, character, culture, - that at least if no more.... |
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Of all education, vital education is perhaps the most important, the most indispensable..... That is why it is of prime importance that the vital education of the child should begin as early as possible.... more >> |
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A true mental education, which will prepare man for a higher life, has five principal phases........ These five phases, in brief, are:
(1) Development of the power of concentration,...... more >> |
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So far we have dealt only with the education that can be given to all children born upon earth and which is concerned with purely human faculties. But one need not inevitably stop there......... more >> |
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1.Complete self-control not only to the extent of not showing any anger, but remaining absolutely quiet and undisturbed under all circumstances. 2.In the matter of self-confidence, must also have....... more >> |
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Most parents, for various reasons, give very little thought to the true education which should be imparted to children. When they have brought a child into the world, provided him with food, satisfied.......... more >> |
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In fact, for education, people should always encourage both tendencies side by side: the thirst for the Marvelous, the seemingly unrealizable, for something that fills you with a sense....... more >> |
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