SWAMI VIVEKANANDA'S IDEAS AND PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION: A WAY OUT TO PROMOTE IMPERISHABLE DEVELOPMENT OF THE NATION

Prof. Wali Mohd

Volume : VII, Issue : VIII, August - 2018

SWAMI VIVEKANANDA'S IDEAS AND PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION: A WAY OUT TO PROMOTE IMPERISHABLE DEVELOPMENT OF THE NATION

Prof. Wali Mohd

Abstract :

India is a country with varied and rich cultural heritage. Numerous greateducationists came with their individual ideas and philosophy of education toplace education system in a perfect frame in the 19th century. Among all, Swami Vivekananda (12th January, 1863 –4th July, 1902) was the most influential andrenowned theorist, educationist and reformer of India with his ideas andphilosophy of education which is the efflorescence of moral and spiritual culture.Vivekananda was not only a great supporter of Vedanta but also he had givenVedanta a practical form. Vivekananda had foreseen the emergence of varioussocial evils due to imperfect education system in India. Modern India has puttremendous emphasis on the scientific and mechanical ways of life which is fastreducing man to the status of a machine. Moral and religious values are beingdiluted. The fundamental principles of civilization are being disregarded.According to Swamiji man is a compound of animality, humanity and divinity.The aim of education should be to help him grow from the animal to the divinestate, through self effort, self realization and proper training. If modern India hasfailed in any domain, it is undoubtedly in the arena of producing genuine humanbeings, the key component of developed society, through a perfect educationsystem. The present thematic paper attempts to highlight Swamiji’s ideas andphilosophy of education. It tries to analyze the relevance and need of hiseducational ideas and philosophy in the light of the twenty first century education system in India. Finally it attempts to explain education as a competentinstrument to promote Imperishable development of the nation.