A PROJECT OF EDUCATION-5.

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10/02/2018

A PROJECT OF EDUCATION-5.

That human beings love beauty, architecture, sculpture, painting, music, literature, and such other channels of expression for an emotional satisfaction is not in any way less important a theme than the fact of the insistent aesthetic sense and the primary urges and impulses of human nature.

People like everything that is artistic, all that is systematic, laid out symmetrically, in an orderly way, methodically, and effectively.

A graduated scheme here, again, is necessary as a course, for supplementing the educational career, so that the intellect and the emotion may slowly get blended into the integrated comprehension of both oneself and others, and understanding and instinct do not stand apart as opposites.

In a way, it may be said that the study of the external world and or what are called the humanities would be practically covered with the advances that have been so far made, but the world is deeper than what a superficial study of astronomy or geography may tell us.

The sciences of physics and chemistry are profound explorations into the mysteries of matter, which is the substance of the physical universe. This area may form the next stage of studies, again, in a graduated manner, rising from the lowest stages to the higher ones.

The biological constitution that is unavoidable and inextricable in living beings, or organic life in general, takes us to the principle of life that seems to germinate and dawn at the level of the vegetable or plant kingdom.

The science of botany concerns itself with life and growth, etc., in this region of the living world. Animals reveal a higher and more intensive form of instinctive life, deeper and wider in every way, than what is covered in the plant kingdom.

This latter branch of study comes under zoology including entomology and such other fields of study. When urged further, the study enters the profundities of anatomy and physiology in the human organism.

To be continued ...


Swami Krishnananda


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