In plain words
You must give up this custom completely. Build up your rights and clear away your troubles. When the very person who is extolled hears your praises, he is astonished and humiliated.
Since all of you are teachers, I cannot help telling you one more thing. Our country has developed a great deal in worldly and material ways. Very well. But if it does not develop in Dharma and spiritually as well, the country will not have peace and order in full. This is precisely My chief aim. For this very purpose I entered the field of education, and through it, by fostering in children and in the younger generations spiritual thought, right conduct, the spirit of service and Prema equal for all, I am giving Ānanda and receiving it.
Bhārata is a land of tyāga, a land of yoga, a land of karma. When our own country has so many great souls who practised true tyāga and were immersed in tapas, why should we teach children the sayings of people of another culture, Johnson and Mill? Today children do know all the addresses of film stars living somewhere in Madras or Bombay, but they do not know the names of the scholars living next door! Feelings and passions that march out to attack others are growing. But from this only dangers, only hardship and loss will grow. The aim and the zeal to march against oneself and to reshape oneself must grow.