Philosophy Seminar

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RELEVANCE OF SWAMI VIVEKANANDA'S IDEAS IN MODERN EDUCATION

  1. Value Education:- Here, Education is conceived in the broad sense, everything in the society plays an educational role.  The formal education system is but part of the culture and values in the system are inevitably determined by the culture.  Education is seen as an instrument for harnessing human drives, and as consequences, it becomes to some extent a method of behavior modification.  Education preserves rather than changes social values.  Education is seen to abide by existing culture norms of the society.
  2. Peace Education:- Constructive education for peace must aim to reform humanity so as to permit the inner development of human personality and develop a more conscious vision of the mission of mankind and the present conditions of social life as was so emphatically averred by Swami Vivekananda as well.  What we need today is an education that is capable of saving mankind from the present predicament.  Such an education involves the spiritual development of man and the enhancement of his value as an individual and preparing the young people to understand the time in which they live.
  3. Environmental Education:- Environmental Education is viewed as an integral part of the education process.  It is taken to be centered on practical  problems and can be an interdisciplinary character.  It should aim at building up a sense of values, contribute to public well being and concern itself with survival of the human species.  Its force, therefore, should aside mainly the initiative of the learners and their involvement in action and it should be guided by immediate and future subject of concern.  Environment Education enables them to manage the environment in which they live through a judicious use of resources.
  4. Citizenship Education:- The concept of Citizenship Education should target to mould the future citizens into the frame of a civic society where citizens are aware of their rights, respect democratic ideals and work for a welfare society with shared responsibility.  Education for democratic citizenship is a set of practices and activities aimed at making young people and adults better equipped to participate actively in democratic life by assuming and exercising their rights and responsibilities in society.


Vivekananda's Influence:- 

Viewed in the light of contemporary thought, Vivekananda was actually an epoch capsule into a life span of less than forty years updating his mother country to fight against all kinds of social evils.  'Equilibrium' and 'Synthesis' were the watchwords of Vivekananda.  Contemplation and devotion to duty were unified in his  personality.  He had gone deep into the social and political decline of India and attempted to prescribe a workable formula to eradicate all social inequalities.  The awakening and liberation of modern India as viewed by him was a stage for the realization of universal love and brotherhood.  He gave his fellow brethren, a dynamic gospel of supreme fearlessness and strength.  He mercilessly denounced the arrogance and sophistication of the upper classes of Indian society.  He was one of the great thinkers in India to offer a sociological interpretation of Indian history.

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