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This Divine Exhortation forms the basis of the education imparted at Sri Sai Vidya Vihar. It is a fact; modern education overemphasises the role of intellect in education, forgetting all other aspects of human personality. Today’s education caters only to physical and intellectual development. Such a system may create great citizens, but what is the use if the so called great individuals are not good?
Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba says, “True education lies not in education, but in transformation of character and personality; transformation of head, heart and hands – a head full of great ideals, a heart full of love and compassion and hands ever eager to serve and assuage pain“. This statement communicates in a nutshell, the ideals of the education at Sri Sai Vidya Vihar.
A school established fully on Sri Sathya Sai ideals. In other words, most important factor is moulding of character. Within a short span of seven years Sri Sai Vidya Vihar could transform, direct and guide hundreds of students.
Teachers and parents are like two wheels of a bicycle where it’s the child who is riding it. The school conducts regular sessions for teachers and parents. Role of parents are explained to them successfully and make them real role models for their children.
Education is for full blossoming of the students. They are given the opportunity to learn a lot of creative and performing arts.
Students are being nurtured to imbibe the basic values of Indian culture and Spirituality. Veda, Yoga and Balvikas sessions are part of regular curriculum. Teachers are given training in academic matters and also in methods of Value education.
As per Sri Sathya Sai Baba’s Divine Mission, education here is not a business. In many places, Saraswathi Nilayams have become centres of Mahalakshmi – Centres for making money. Here, there is no collection of donations for admission.
Teamwork is a very important trait of Sri Sai Vidya Vihar. All work here as members of one family with one single objective. Hostel life is also unique. There is total character moulding and Spiritual vibration is clear in every step.
We strongly feel that institutions like these are today’s vital need. When distractions are many and very forceful, more and more care and attention are needed for our students. Here education becomes something more that mere transmission of information.
That is our daily schedule.
Sri Sathya Sai Baba always stresses on the fact that the End of education is character and Education is for life and not for living. In Sri Sai Vidya Vihar, we are having not mere education, but real educare. Educare is for life – creating proper way of life and not a means for getting a job.
The school is nothing but a Divine Expression of Godly Love and Grace of Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba,to usher in the Sri Sathya Sai era of Higher education,strongly built on the value edifice of Sathya,Dharma,Shanti,Prema and Ahimsa,fostering the Sarva Dharma Samanuvaya
Once, someone asked Bhagavan Baba as to why he concentrates very much on children and youth. Bhagavan replied,”It is so because it is a long term investment.”Yes, it is an investment that will reap rich dividends.It is an investment that will take the nation to the forefront.
“Education does not mean the imparting of verbal knowledge alone.”
“Education must award self-confidence, the courage to depend on one’s own strength.”
“The father, the mother and the teacher are the three primarily responsible for moulding the future of the country. .”
“Wisdom flashes like lightening amidst the clouds of the inner sky; one has to foster the flash, and preserve the light. That is the true sign of the ‘educated’ person.”
“It is essential to practice spiritual disciplines along with academic studies. “
“College education gives you the chance to earn money and live thereupon. But, unless it destroys certain illusions that are nourished by the common level of mankind, your lives will not be happy.”
“Education has to be welcomed as a Spiritual Practice for the establishment of Peace in the individual heart as well as in society including the human commonwealth.”
“The sign of a person who has had an education is ‘good manners.”
“Unless knowledge is transformed into wisdom, and wisdom is expressed in character; education is a wasteful process.”
“The education system today makes an educated person selfish. It makes that person a slave to the senses and as a consequence the person forgets his/her own divine nature.”
“The objective of education should be impressed on the children’s minds. The academic education of today is shallow and useless because it has no value orientation. “
“Learning to earn a living is only half the job. The other half is to make life worthwhile and meaningful. “
“Character is the most precious gift of education.”
“Education must assume full responsibility to enter the moral and spiritual lives of pupils. “
“There is no use if knowledge grows while desires multiply. It makes one a hero in words and a zero in action.”
“Education should serve to enlarge the vision and broaden the outlook of the people.”
“What the head thinks, should be examined critically in the heart and this right decision should be carried out by the hands. This should be the primary product of the educational process.”
“Education should enable the students, but instead it is debasing them. Instead of shaping the young into diamonds, it is turning them into coals. It is not bringing transformation in them, It is not bestowing wisdom.”
“Education has to cultivate humility and discipline, but today it is yielding a harvest of
pride and envy.”
“Unity of minds, natural love and co-operation, are the qualities we have to develop today. Education is not for securing university degrees.”
“The learned man’s life itself shines as the message for mankind.”
“The nation can prosper and be happy only when education develops in an atmosphere of Truth, Love and Reverence.”
“Real education should enable one to utilize the knowledge one has acquired to meet the challenges of life and to make all human beings happy as far as possible.”
“Humility, reverence, compassion, forbearance, sacrifice and self-control are the qualities that reveal the outcome of the true education. “
“Education today does not impart to the students the capacity or grit to face the challenges of daily life. The educational field has become the playing ground of ignorance.”
“True knowledge is that which establishes harmony and synthesis between Science on the one hand and spirituality and ethics on the other.”
“Modern education develops the intellect and imparts skills, but does not promote qualities in any way. “
“Education today is a process of filling the mind with the contents of books, emptying the contents in the examination hall and returning empty-headed.”
“True education consists in the cultivation of the heart.”
“You are not educated if all you have achieved is the study of ten books.”
“Education must open the eyes and enable them to recognize the One behind the many.”
“Education must promote peace, security and happiness.”
“Education is not acquisition of burdensome information regarding objects and men. It is the awareness of the immortal spirit within,, which is the spring of joy, peace and courage.”
