Assimilation of Knowledge is the aim of Education

Such is the Indian society that is waiting to receive each and every one of our youths who complete their university education today. It is a society of bubbling hopes and mounting problems, with an impressive past and a glorious future. Every youthful generation of modern India owes it to itself and to the nation at large to strive to become strong and dynamic. Such strength is the product of faith in oneself and in one’s country’s heritage, reinforced by the assimilation of all available knowledge, national and international. This is the aim of all true education. Vivekananda defined the scope of our national education as the assimilation of the spirit of Vedanta and modern science. The Chandogya Upanisad in a memorable passage (I.1.10) refers to the energy of character generated by education:Yadeva vidyaya karoti, sraddhaya, upanisada, tadeva viryavataram bhavati – ‘Whatever is done through mastery of the know-how, through faith (in oneself and one’s cause) and through inner meditation – that alone becomes charged with the highest energy’.

EXTRACTS FROM: Eternal Values for a Changing Society Volume III – Education for Human Excellence; 1 – India's Educational Vision (Pg:16-17; ed. 1995)
This was the address delivered at the Calcutta University Convocation on February 15, 1966.