Views of Swami Vivekananda on Education
Swami Vivekananda’s views on Education deals with self development, character development, should build self reliance and confidence, education of masses, medium of instruction, and education for downtrodden people and so on.
1. Education for Physical and Mental Development
Physical education helps the child for self-realisation or character building and how to make our body strong. Physical education also helps the child in attaining a complete education which is necessary to develop both the mind and the body. Vivekananda stressed the value of physical education in curriculum. He said, “You will be nearer to Heaven through football than through the study of Gita. You will understand Gita better by your biceps, your muscles a little stronger. You will understand the Upanishads better and the glary of the Atman, when your body stands firm on your feet and you feel yourself as man.”
2. Medium of Instruction
Like Gandhi and Rabindranath Tagore, Vivekananda also emphasised education through the mother tongue. …show more content…
He realizes that it is only through education that the uplift of masses is possible. To refer to his own words: Travelling through many cities of Europe and observing in them the comforts and education of even the poor people, there was brought to my mind the state of our own poor people and I used to shed tears. When made the difference? “Education” was the answer I got.’
He states it emphatically that if society is to be reformed, education has to reach everyone-high and low, because individuals are the very constituents of society. The sense of dignity rises in man when he becomes conscious of his inner spirit, and that is the very purpose of education. He strives to harmonize the traditional values of India with the new values brought through the progress of science and
Swami Vivekananda’s views on Education deals with self development, character development, should build self reliance and confidence, education of masses, medium of instruction, and education for downtrodden people and so on.
1. Education for Physical and Mental Development
Physical education helps the child for self-realisation or character building and how to make our body strong. Physical education also helps the child in attaining a complete education which is necessary to develop both the mind and the body. Vivekananda stressed the value of physical education in curriculum. He said, “You will be nearer to Heaven through football than through the study of Gita. You will understand Gita better by your biceps, your muscles a little stronger. You will understand the Upanishads better and the glary of the Atman, when your body stands firm on your feet and you feel yourself as man.”
2. Medium of Instruction
Like Gandhi and Rabindranath Tagore, Vivekananda also emphasised education through the mother tongue. …show more content…
He realizes that it is only through education that the uplift of masses is possible. To refer to his own words: Travelling through many cities of Europe and observing in them the comforts and education of even the poor people, there was brought to my mind the state of our own poor people and I used to shed tears. When made the difference? “Education” was the answer I got.’
He states it emphatically that if society is to be reformed, education has to reach everyone-high and low, because individuals are the very constituents of society. The sense of dignity rises in man when he becomes conscious of his inner spirit, and that is the very purpose of education. He strives to harmonize the traditional values of India with the new values brought through the progress of science and