Indian Philosophy of Education in Contemporary Times

Any educational system to be effective today must also be holistic and integral as it is no longer possible to divide education into different levels or the human personality into various compartments. Right kind of education always makes any person altruistic, honest, and magnanimous and a good socialite who is concerned with the other beings of society. Modern education which lacks spiritual aspects has made majority of people only literate and not wise. Hunger, sleep, fear and sex are common to men and animals. What distinguishes men from animals is the sense of right and wrong. The modern education has failed to help a man in becoming a man. Education must make man able to face any kind of danger, difficulty, uncertainty that the one may meet in the journey of life. Today?s majority of youth with so called degrees, diplomas or short course certificates are devoid of this quality. AIDS, stress and strain, addiction to liquor or drugs are not good signs of an educated people. Education must help to inculcate national spirit in the student.