In plain words
All these methods were begun by him for the convenience of the British. He kept teaching in such a way that the belief that education exists only for a job would take deep root in the hearts of the people of Bhārata. Unfortunately, even today the people of Bhārata cannot recognise the truth that education came into being not for a job but for the gaining of knowledge. So we must first of all bring about this change in the students' thinking. We must teach them the way to acquire the strength to stand on their own feet. We must make them heroes of action. We must follow a way by which, putting mere words aside, they become skilled in work. They must understand that sharpening one's cleverness is not the chief aim of education, and that the cleverness gained must be put into practice to shape all the people of society in a way that does them good. Because we go on developing ideals only in our heads, this turns into a merely useless life. "An idle man's mind is devil's workshop," they have said. We must give the students work enough to fill their hands. It is only because they have not enough work that they turn their cleverness to wrong ways. Wherever one looks today, they are making wide use of these books of sex and detectives. It is because such useless books have multiplied and useful books cannot come forth that the state of the students is so upside down.
Teachers are like lamps that shine without ceasing
What matters most for students is moral and spiritual character. Only when they fill their hearts with these moral and spiritual principles will the education of today be worth its name. The moral and the spiritual are like the warp and the weft of a cloth. They cannot be pulled apart.