Saturday, October 1, 2011

GETTING COMPLETE MASTERY OF MY OWN MIND - IS THE IDEAL OF EDUCATION


Education is not filling the mind with a lot of facts. Perfecting the instrument and getting complete mastery of my own mind [is the ideal of education]. If I want to concentrate my mind upon a point, it goes there, and the moment I call, it is free [again]....

- Swami Vivekananda
(Delivered in San Francisco, March 28, 1900)The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda/Volume 1/Lectures And Discourses/Breathing

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