Passage 9

In English

What we can give others must be the concern

Persons who are educated through these institutions, in time, occupy positions of authority and influence. How then can the condition of the world become better? Education must assume full responsibility and enter the moral and spiritual lives of pupils. The imparting of worldly information and training in technical skills are not enough. Moral and spiritual education has to supplement them. The idea that a posh bungalow, with costly sofas, dining tables etc., or a heavy pay packet from Dubai, Iran or Iraq, is the ideal to be worked for should be given up. This ideal breeds evil. The ideal should be - hands dedicated to hard work, heads dedicated to service, and hearts filled with compassion. exhorted students to cultivate compassion. No one should suffer harm or pain through our words or deeds. For, when another is hurt by us, what really happens is insult and injury to our true nature, as men. Attention is now paid soley to the self and its wishes. This must be reversed. Not what we can get from others but what we can give others - that must be the concern.