A PROJECT OF EDUCATION-4.

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02/02/2018

A PROJECT OF EDUCATION-4.

Then comes also the need to learn how people in the country are managed by what is known as the governmental system. Here commences the work of sowing the seed of the study of political science, firstly in the theoretical norm for every type of human administration, and, subsequently, the ways by which the norms are applied in different types of political management, including the political governance of one's own country.

The training in the economic and social sides of human living grows gradually side by side together with the study of the science and the method of political administration and management. The hierarchy of civic management and political positions in this scheme will open up a new vista of human obligation and duty in the world of variety, both human and non-human, living and non-living things. These subjects should be introduced gradually by stages, right from basic outlines to profound studies in later stages.

The study of ethics and human morality, though it forms a difficult subject and may even look a controversial point of study, may be taken up as the next stage, bearing in mind that the ethical or moral sense is not attempted to be introduced into the student's mind from the point of view of any family tradition, local custom, religious faith or stereotyped training of any kind. This would make the subject a little difficult, since it would appear that ethics, practically, borders on a whole philosophy of life rather than remain an instruction on norms of human behaviour and conduct.

Leaving aside the philosophical or metaphysical foundations of ethics and morality for the time being, the student here in this stage may be given sufficient information on the necessity for mutual cooperation among human beings, as a social factor behind survival in the world, the necessity to see that, in one's own life, one does not injure, harm or exploit another in any way, whether in thought, word or deed, and does not appropriate what one has not earned, or expect more than what others also would expect justifiably on the principle of mutual coordination and cooperation,--'Live and let live'. The higher implications of ethics and morality are to be postponed for study at a still later stage.

To be continued ...


Swami Krishnananda

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