Sathya Sai Baba The World-Avatar Teaching and Revelations

God. We have therefore to promote educational methods by which the
humanness of man can be maintained and sublimated into godliness.
(...)
If those born in villages trek into towns and settle there, villages will decline.
But, towns cannot exist without villages. Villages have to be fostered
first. The village is the heart of the town; without it, the town becomes
lifeless. (...)
Children who come from a village must, after education, settle in the
village itself, develop the village and purify the village atmosphere.
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Education must teach man to turn to God and discover that nature too
is God. It must awaken the consciousness latent in man so he becomes
aware of the Atman that underlies all its levels. Education
claims to increase man's knowledge. What is that knowledge worth?
Without character, that knowledge is best cast into fire. The educated
person is now more vicious, more greedy more crafty than the uneducated!
This knowledge encourage him to exploit and exterminate others.
This knowledge pollutes and poisons the world. It destroys peace
and prosperity all over the world. Words! Words! Words! A plethora of
words! Nothing is practiced; no one acts. 22.11.81, (25-211)
Teachers are the path-finders of the nation. They prepare the royal
road to a bright future. The skill and efficiency of the people, their reliability
and sense of duty depend on the community of teachers. Their
virtue is reflected in their pupils; their faith inspires the young. Whether
people waste their lives and the lives of others by means of barren pursuits
or whether people lead happy lives promoting the happiness of
others, depends on teachers. (...)
Lack of brotherhood in the teaching community springs from extreme
specialization. This orientation course is devised to give every one of
you a glimpse of the basic philosophy that feeds every faculty. In other
universities, physics is physics and chemistry is chemistry. Here, they
should not be so isolated; philosophy is the link, the sap that sustains
all. The boundaries of each subject are not really so sharply drawn,
they fade into a neighbouring subject; they overlap and become kindred.
Knowledge of this intimate interdependence is the higher learning
you have to strive for.
The syllabi of the various subjects have been expanded and interrelated
by this institute so that an orientation course has become necessary
for the teachers to grasp the pattern. 22.5.82, (25-295/296)
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