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“It is not that education has never been accorded adequate importance in India.
The writings of the founding fathers—including Mahatma Gandhi, Rabindranath Tagore, Maulana Azad, Ambedkar, and even the spiritual torchbearers of modern India such as Vivekananda and Sri Aurobindo—stressed that education would form the core of India’s “tryst with destiny,� as Jawaharlal Nehru would have put it. Almost all of them suggested ways by which a new generation of Indians could be educated in a liberal and scientific environment where modern society was built on traditional strengths, one supplementing but not substituting for the other, and where education was deeply connected to the needs of people. But somehow, independent India could not build on the richness of this philosophical tradition, or on the depth of its populace’s respect for education.
This history seems to have been lost in the current debate, mired in the more mundane issues of access and quality defined in terms of enrollment
numbers and teacher-student ratios.”
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The writings of the founding fathers—including Mahatma Gandhi, Rabindranath Tagore, Maulana Azad, Ambedkar, and even the spiritual torchbearers of modern India such as Vivekananda and Sri Aurobindo—stressed that education would form the core of India’s “tryst with destiny,� as Jawaharlal Nehru would have put it. Almost all of them suggested ways by which a new generation of Indians could be educated in a liberal and scientific environment where modern society was built on traditional strengths, one supplementing but not substituting for the other, and where education was deeply connected to the needs of people. But somehow, independent India could not build on the richness of this philosophical tradition, or on the depth of its populace’s respect for education.
This history seems to have been lost in the current debate, mired in the more mundane issues of access and quality defined in terms of enrollment
numbers and teacher-student ratios.”
―

“ALL is yours. Do not go seeking for that which you are. Appropriate it, claim it, assume it. Everything depends upon your concept of yourself. That which you do not claim as true of yourself cannot be realised by you.”
― The Power of Awareness
― The Power of Awareness

“Here’s the simple formula: Spend less than you earn—invest the surplus—avoid debt”
― The Simple Path to Wealth: Your road map to financial independence and a rich, free life
― The Simple Path to Wealth: Your road map to financial independence and a rich, free life

“There are pervasive and powerful marketing forces at work seeking to obscure the idea that such a choice exists. We are relentlessly bombarded with messages telling us that we absolutely need the latest trinket and that we simply must have the most fashionable of currently trending trash. We’re told that if you don’t have the money, no problem. That’s what credit cards and payday loans are for.”
― The Simple Path to Wealth: Your road map to financial independence and a rich, free life
― The Simple Path to Wealth: Your road map to financial independence and a rich, free life
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