Sandip's Blog

“ If we had understood the earth as the mother of all, even of great values, we would have treated the earth in a different way. We have destroyed it. We have almost poisoned it. We have broken its ecological unity. We have disturbed its environment. And now with nuclear weapons we are ready to destroy it. And it is the source of all that is beautiful, and all that is great. The earth is sacred.” Zarathustra: A God that can Dance # 8 The Way of Nature “ Life is an organic unity. If there is only giving and no receiving, to whom are you going to give? If there are only receivers, and no givers, from whom are they going to receive? Life is a balance between giving and receiving. Roots receive from the earth, and fruits and flowers go on giving back to the earth. It is a circle. Man, in his ignorance, has broken that circle in many places. That's why there is a great ecological crisis. We go on taking from the earth, but we don't return any...

The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think - rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men. ~ Bill Beattie Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school. ~ Albert Einstein It'll be a great day when education gets all the money it wants and the Air Force has to hold a bake sale to buy bombers. ~Author unknown , quoted in You Said a Mouthful, Ronald D. Fuchs, ed. An educational system isn't worth a great deal if it teaches young people how to make a living but doesn't teach them how to make a life. ~Author Unknown It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense. ~ Robert G. Ingersoll Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. ~ G.M. Trevelyan Real education must ultimately be limited to...