Page 96 - Swatantrata to Atmanirbharta : Lokmanya Tilak’s legacy

TV by the government. The education of millions of students
in rural areas from Gadchiroli to Sindhudurg has been achieved
by the teachers of the Deccan Education Society.
These are Lokmanya’s ideas on education, put into action
by the Deccan Education Society.
“Thoughts are important. for the national ideology that is not
taught in government schools, educational institutions like DES
should come forward.”

“It is useless to doubt how national education will fill the
stomach. If national education does not have the capacity to
feed itself, it is not education at all.”

“National education should be patriotic, national and moral.”
“Without national education, the next generation will be
blind. We need national schools to know our religion, to know
our country, to practice our ethics, to have the strength and
morality to lift the country that is going downhill.”
“Righteousness, piety, and orderly conduct must be rooted
in education.”
“It has become imperative for children to be educated from an
early age about the social and political situation in the country
and the theoretical measures to be taken to improve it. Giving
a child from an early age social values is the seed of national
education.”
“Who are you? What is your status? What should the next
generation do? What is the performance of the country? The
education that introduces this thought is national education.
Learning to recognize a country is called national education.”
“We need national education that enhances patriotism,
religious education that builds national morality, vocational
education that prepares people for self-development, industrial
development, technical education and higher education that
shows the direction of research.”

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