Of what use is the acquisition of all kinds of knowledge if one has not good qualities and has no moral values? What for is academic knowledge acquired? Is for deceiving others? Or is it for promoting one's selfish interests? Or for the selfish enjoyment of pleasures? Education today is being used largely for these purposes than to promote the well-being of society or the nation. An education that serves no useful purpose in daily life is utterly worthless.
Education today promotes largely intellectual cleverness. What is the good if the head is filled with bad thoughts, is the ears listen only to scandals, if the eyes look enviously and the mind is plotting misdeeds? All that is noble in human life is being destroyed. The students of today are divorced from all that is ennobling.
(SS Dec 1996, pg 317)
