Quotes From "The Education Decree" By Abhijit Naskar

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The most sensitive period of their developmental age, when the kids are supposed to be taught to question everything and nourish their reasoning skills, they are taught that God created the world in seven days — that the human race did not evolve from apes through millions of years, rather it came from the amorous congress between two God-made humans, named Adam and Eve. And if you ask why? The answers of the uneducated primordial teachers would be that the scriptures say so. And now if you ask, can’t the scriptures be wrong — do I have to take these stories literally? They would lash out with rage and shout at you — how dare you question the scriptures! Every single word in it is true. There is no greater truth than the truth of these sacred texts. . Abhijit Naskar
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Become loving and become courageous. Become the inspiration which you seek outside. Bring the metaphorical heart of your limbic system in sync with the analytical powerhouse of the prefrontal cortex. From your mind shall rise the inspiration. From your mind shall rise the love. From your mind shall rise the greatest education of all. Abhijit Naskar
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Psychologically speaking, far from being worthless, a system is indeed necessary, for any kind of human endeavor. A structure aids in the mind’s endeavor of learning. But the moment the mind becomes dependent on the system and starts trusting the system more than the internal faculties of the mind, the very element of education fades away from the system. Abhijit Naskar
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Now the common human perception about the purpose of academic institutions, is that, they are meant to put a stamp of approval on the students, so that later on the students can show off their stamp in order to make a living. The parents invest money to get the stamp, and the child uses that stamp to make more money. Where is the element of education in this whole process! Abhijit Naskar
All knowledge is born in the mind, and circumstances make...
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All knowledge is born in the mind, and circumstances make them manifest. Abhijit Naskar
After all, what is education, if not the unparalleled means...
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After all, what is education, if not the unparalleled means to transcend the self- imposed physical limits of the mind and the body. Abhijit Naskar
All the calculus, quantum mechanics and languages in the world...
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All the calculus, quantum mechanics and languages in the world are worthless pieces of information, if they are not brought to the service of the society. Abhijit Naskar
If we are to rise as real Sapiens, we must...
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If we are to rise as real Sapiens, we must work towards spreading education among the masses. Abhijit Naskar
The only service to be done for our downtrodden sisters...
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The only service to be done for our downtrodden sisters and brother, is to give them education to develop their individuality. We must give them ideas, alongside cultivating their living conditions. Abhijit Naskar
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The methodical implementation of modern human faculties that allow us human beings to transcend the physical limits of biological evolution is Education. However, today, the term education has become somehow synonymous with economic benefits and due to the primeval craving for security, it has disgracefully lost its very core of transcendence into the unknown. Thus, the very evolutionary seeds that gave birth to the method known as education have gone almost extinct in the modern industrialized system of soulless competition and regurgitation. Hence emerged the reason for me to get to the root of its quite unofficially accepted problems, and to concoct the thought processes that would make necessary amendments to the perceptual errors of what I call the three major nodes of education system, which are the teachers, the students and the parents. . Abhijit Naskar
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Education is not the amount of information that is pushed into the brain and causes havoc there, undigested all through a lifetime. Education must be a symposium of life-building, character- making and assimilation of ideas in the pursuit of building a more harmonious, peaceful and truly civilized world. Abhijit Naskar
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For self-educated scientists and thinkers such as Charles Darwin, Srinivasa Ramanujan, Leonardo-da-Vinci, Michael Faraday, myself and many others, education is a relentless voyage of discovery. To us education is an everlasting quest for knowledge and wisdom. Abhijit Naskar
If education were the same as information, the encyclopedias would...
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If education were the same as information, the encyclopedias would be the greatest sages in the world. Abhijit Naskar
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The system that aims at educating our boys and girls in the same manner as in the circus where the trainer teaches the lion to sit on a stool, has not understood the true meaning of education itself. Instead of being like a circus where the trainer uses his stick to make animals do stunts to serve the interest of the audience, the system of education should be like an Orchestra where the conductor waves his stick to orchestrate the music already within the musicians’ heart in the most beautiful manner. The teacher should be like the conductor in the orchestra, not the trainer in the circus. Abhijit Naskar
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A healthy and ideal system of education would be where a teacher would patiently impart knowledge, instead of curriculum, upon the students, only after assessing their acceptability — where a student would acquire knowledge in order to learn, not to earn — where the parents would be willing to make necessary sacrifices in order to adorn their child with curiosity and thereafter nourish that curiosity, regardless of how absurdly impractical it becomes to the eyes of the society. Abhijit Naskar
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The point is, education in its truest form, is the foundation of all human endeavors. It is the most noble of all the civilized elements of human consciousness. Education enables the humans to achieve their fullest mental and physical potential in both personal and social life. The ability of being educated is what distinguishes humans from animals. You can teach a cockatoo to repeat a bunch of vocabularies, but you cannot teach it to construct a space shuttle and go to the moon. Abhijit Naskar
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Instead of being like a circus where the trainer uses his stick to make animals do stunts to serve the interest of the audience, the system of education should be like an Orchestra where the conductor waves his stick to orchestrate the music already within the musicians’ heart in the most beautiful manner. The teacher should be like the conductor in the orchestra, not the trainer in the circus. Abhijit Naskar
This is not education my friend. It is a process...
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This is not education my friend. It is a process of manufacturing computation devices that look like Homo sapiens, and thereby falsely labeled as Education. Abhijit Naskar
Education enables the humans to achieve their fullest mental and...
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Education enables the humans to achieve their fullest mental and physical potential in both personal and social life. Abhijit Naskar
All systems of the society should serve the mind, instead...
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All systems of the society should serve the mind, instead of the mind serving the systems. Abhijit Naskar
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Mind is the Alpha — Mind is the Omega. There is nothing else in the pursuit of knowledge. And more importantly, there is nothing else in education. All systems of the society should serve the mind, instead of the mind serving the systems. Abhijit Naskar
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Education means nourishing the mind and make it develop in order to see beyond the limitations of current social perception - it means breaking the barriers of the rugged sociological system that impede in the progress of human civilization - it means trying out new things for the first time in human history and succeeding in a few while failing in some. And that is how a species grows to become more advanced. Abhijit Naskar
Real education leads to the liberation of the mind.
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Real education leads to the liberation of the mind. Abhijit Naskar
Education means nourishing the mind and make it develop in...
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Education means nourishing the mind and make it develop in order to see beyond the limitations of current social perception. Abhijit Naskar
If you have assimilated even one idea and made it...
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If you have assimilated even one idea and made it your life, you have more education than any person who has got by heart the entire Library of Congress. Abhijit Naskar
Don’t be defeatist due to the mistakes you make. Mistakes...
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Don’t be defeatist due to the mistakes you make. Mistakes are inevitable part of growth. Abhijit Naskar
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Sow the seeds of weakness and inferiority in the kids and they’ll grow up to be inferior, crawling, insignificant insects. Sow the seeds of courage and they’ll become brave-heart leaders who will one day change the course of human history. Abhijit Naskar
Love and Compassion — these are the greatest education a...
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Love and Compassion — these are the greatest education a person can ever have. Abhijit Naskar
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Character- building education is what the world needs — education, that will empower the mind with such an unimaginable strength that one would meet death face to face and say “some other time, pal! Abhijit Naskar
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If you don’t allow one to become a lion, one will become a sheep. And the world is already filled with sheeps, which is the major cause of the society’s intellectual and moral downfall. For a better future to evolve, where humanism will be an all-pervading virtue and separatism will be a matter of ancient history, the world needs lions. Abhijit Naskar
The teacher should be like the conductor in the orchestra,...
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The teacher should be like the conductor in the orchestra, not the trainer in the circus. Abhijit Naskar
Your nation needs you. Your world needs you. So, use...
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Your nation needs you. Your world needs you. So, use your education to become endowed with muscles of iron and nerves of steel. Abhijit Naskar
Education is the manifestation and evolution of the knowledge that...
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Education is the manifestation and evolution of the knowledge that is already inherent within you. Abhijit Naskar
This is not Education. It is a process of manufacturing...
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This is not Education. It is a process of manufacturing computation devices that look like Homo sapiens. Abhijit Naskar
The flow of knowledge towards the mind should be moderated...
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The flow of knowledge towards the mind should be moderated by the faculties of the mind itself, based on the acceptability of nothing but the mind. Abhijit Naskar
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The world needs teachers — teachers who have broken their own shackles of indoctrination — teachers who can go beyond the narrow-mindedness of the society. A handful of these young, brave and zealous teachers in every nation, shall be enough to rekindle the spark of pure knowledge in the entire species. Abhijit Naskar
The world needs the kind of education by means of...
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The world needs the kind of education by means of which character is formed, strength of the mind is increased and the human intellect is expanded beyond its own limits. Abhijit Naskar
Do not become self-absorbed, but become self-aware.
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Do not become self-absorbed, but become self-aware. Abhijit Naskar
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Great occasions often stimulate a person to do something great, but that tells nothing of his or her real character. Great is the person who does good always, in sickness and in health, in riches and in poverty. Abhijit Naskar
Be excellent in your own terms. Do not look for...
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Be excellent in your own terms. Do not look for approval from a single soul on this planet. Respect yourself and in time the whole world will respect you. Abhijit Naskar
Great is the person who does good always, in sickness...
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Great is the person who does good always, in sickness and in health, in riches and in poverty. Abhijit Naskar
The world needs courage and conscience that can penetrate into...
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The world needs courage and conscience that can penetrate into the darkest mysteries and secrets of the universe. Abhijit Naskar
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Religion, when realized truly, can provide an extremely accurate moral compass to the human conscience, while politics on the other hand, when utilized properly can ensure the wellbeing of the society. Abhijit Naskar
Every nation, every woman and every man must work out...
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Every nation, every woman and every man must work out their own salvation. Abhijit Naskar
Be excellent in your own terms.
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Be excellent in your own terms. Abhijit Naskar
All your sufferings can be alleviated by no other person...
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All your sufferings can be alleviated by no other person but you. Abhijit Naskar
Your imagination, your will, your conscience — these are almighty...
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Your imagination, your will, your conscience — these are almighty — they make you achieve things that no human being has ever achieved in history. Abhijit Naskar
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Love opens the most impossible gates in the world. Feel, therefore, my would-be patriots. Do you feel? Do you feel that millions of your sisters and brothers are starving today and have been in such condition for ages? Do you feel my dear soldiers? Do you feel that the light of truth has become much scarier to the society than the darkness of ignorance? Does this not make you restless? Does this not make you sleepless? Has it not gone into your blood yet, coursing through your veins, becoming resonant with your heart-beat? Are you not yet seized with the one idea of lifting the misery from the society? Have you not been yet immersed in this idea, so much so that, you have forgotten your name, your fame, your property and even your very physical existence as a flesh and blood being? Have you done that yet? That is the very first step of the real education my friend. Your world needs heroes. Be Heroes! . Abhijit Naskar
Continue to exercise your imagination and it will take you...
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Continue to exercise your imagination and it will take you higher. Continue to exercise your will and it will take you higher. Continue to exercise your conscience and it will take you higher. Abhijit Naskar
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There is nothing ideal in Nature, because it was not created by some sort of ideal Almighty Being with perfect peerless craftsmanship. Nature as it is, has evolved through millions of years out of the biological drive for survival. Abhijit Naskar