DHARAMBANDHU
Education plays a major role in nurturing human talent and potential which in turn enhances their ethical values and enables them to become self reliant and achieve prosperity. One of the major intellects of his time Swami Dayanand Saraswati said that education is a tool through which a person achieves knowledge, civility, righteousness and control over his senses and because of which the darkness of illiteracy, immorality, vanity and …………… are destroyed. In the modern era the term education means to learn. The word "education" is a latin word. According to the Latin grammar “E”means to take out powers from within and “duco” means to further progress it or lead it further. According to the Random House dictionary education means to take out energy from within (something) is.
A great educationist of the modern world Professor Richard Malcolm Weaver states that the source of knowledge lies within the person who wants to gain it. The main aim of Education should be to be a medium through which a student should hone his talent, increase his logical reasoning, and resolve to uphold his principles and logical reasoning and rationality, chisel out his/her potential for their development and become skilled in their profession as well as their duty.
According to Yajurveda’s chapter nineteenth para 30 the goal of education is to learn and understand truth and to bring out the importance and utility of truth in the daily existence of humans. maharishi Patanjali has written in Mahabhasya that importance of education could be elaborately conceived via four stages enumerated below:
1. Instructional phase: When the student learns from the teacher with reverence in a class like environment. SriKrishna also says in Gita that “Shraddhavan labhate jnanam” meaning that only a man who is full of faith and is devoted to it will attain knowledge.
2. Speculation phase: After attaining knowledge from the teacher the student now introspects