A Comprehensive Collection - Swami Vivekananda

""""4 EDUCATION ON NATIONAL LINES. 557tassimilated five ideas and made them yourlife andchniActer, you have more education than any man wh<&can give by heart a whole library. The/ss carryingits load of sandalwood knows only the weight and notthe valuta of Vi^e sandalwood." If education meansinformation, the libraries are the ^greatest sages in theWDrli and* encyclopaedias are the Kishis. The ideal,therefore, is that we must have the whole education of ourcountry, spiritual and secular, in our own han^s and itmust be on national lines, through national methods, asfa**as practicable. Of course this is a very big scheme, a bigplan. I do not know whether it will ever work itself outbut we must begin the work. How? For instance, takeMflfiras. We must start a temple, must have a temple,for, with Hindus religion must come first. Then you say,all sects will quarrel about the temple. We will mae aOm"non-sectarian temple giving onlyas the symbol,the greatest symbol of any sect. If there is any secthere which believes that Oin ought not to be thesymbol it has no right to be Hindu. All will have theright to interpret ideas, each one according to his own sect,but we must have a common temple. You can have yourown images and things in other places, but do not qua.rrelwith the other people. There should be taught there thecommon grounds of our different sects and at the sametime the different sects should have perfect liberty tocome there and teach their doctrines, with only one *restriction not to quarrel with o*jher sects. Say whatyou have to say, the world wants i but the world - ;hasno time to hear what you think other abput people, keepthat to yourselves. Secondly, alorl with this temple thereshould be an institution to train teachers and preachers.These teachers must go about pre^Jchingboth religion and