For Pondering:

Contradistinction Between:
Materialistic education system & values

(And) True Spiritual Requirements
And Teachings

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64.)  From Sri Sathya Sai Baba:

a.)  “Today’s education is aimed at giving
those who go through it an amount of
temporary happiness, temporary beauty and
temporary pleasure. The conduct of students
of today is not controlled in any manner.”


b.)  “That part of the education that
enables you to understand yourself and
to realise yourself is good education. That
which is mere learning for just making a living
or getting a salary for the sake of your living is
not good education.”


c.)  “Many of us use our education to earn a
pittance just to fill a tiny little stomach. What is
the use of such education, when it cannot give
full and complete happiness to man? If man
cannot show to his fellow beings the way to
reach the Divine, how shall he justify himself?
(i)  “... But with this process of sunrise and
sunset, man does not quite realise that his
life span itself is continuously diminishing
day by day. Every man wants to experience
good, but he does not consider how he can
improve himself, how he can change his
heart so as to reach and acquire this
experience of goodness.

(ii)  “From the early days of one’s life and till the
very end, every person is only asking
questions like, what is the profit that I can
get out of this life? What is the pleasure
that I can get out of this life? What is the
benefit that I can derive out of all these?

(iii)  “But he does not give any thought to
another aspect of these questions such as:
in what way can I be of use to the world? In
what way can I be of use to the society?
What good can I do to people with whom I
come in contact? These questions he does not
ask.

(iv)  “He is engaging himself and using his
time only for his own pleasure and his own
profit. If we make a proper enquiry into this
situation and try to understand it, we will come to
the conclusion that man is always ready to
take and receive things for himself. It is a
selfish attitude to life. He is not willing to
give, hand over or contribute something to
others. But life is not a one-way traffic.
Man should be prepared to give and take.”