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True Education : 4. Swami Krishnananda

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======================================================================== ======================================================================== 26/12/2019. (Keynote address given at a conference on education in Delhi on October 21, 1983) POST-4. ======================================================================== TO,  PARENTS AND PARENTAGE : Hence, if education is to be considered as the process of the enlightenment of the human individual in the direction of what the purpose of life is finally, then we may have to know what the purpose of life is. Education is certainly not the accumulation of particular facts of empirical phenomena. It is something different altogether. It is vitally connected to our day-to-day living. A collection of information disconnected to actual existence in the world is not a part of education because it does not illumine the individual. Education is to be considered, therefore, as a medium for shedding proper light on the very structu...