In plain words
This is the big fault there. Today it goes by as a small fault. Little by little it grows into a fault that takes life itself. Is that when we take action? By then their lives will have gone as well. So in the Institute, little by little, we must certainly lay down some strict rules. Those who stay may stay. Those who go may go. If we have ten children in our hands, that is enough. If at this age things go beyond the bounds in even one point of this discipline, these boys will not come back to hand afterwards. So we must enter on acts that show this humanness to be precious. Jantūnāṃ narajanma durlabhaṃ. Why is this human birth hard to gain? If we too behave like animals, what is special in saying that a human birth is hard to gain? So this must become an Institute that makes at least some of them into fine, ideal students. An atmosphere of Vijñāna and Viveka must spread through it everywhere. Wherever the students go, their discipline must stay steady. Without this steadiness, what is this life for? What are these studies for? Even on the Play ground, there too we must keep control in the right way. Even in the bazaar, your discipline must be there too. What use is it if it is there only in one place and not in a second? When an animal in a Circus does its feats it is very disciplined. It is very much under control. The animal is better, isn't it? So what is taught in this Institute is not Circus. It is good qualities.
That is why we must set up some special committees and try to turn this onto the right path. For this there must be one called the department committee. That is, for Physics, Chemistry, Botany, Mathematics, English and all other such subjects, we must set up separate committees for each. The work we must do in these committees is this: in what way are we to shape the children for their future? In what way are we to change their path? In what way are we to teach them? In what way are we to set tests? In what way are we to bring them onto the right path? These are the matters these people must discuss well. So, in a spirit that seeks progress, all these teachers must achieve these things with effort. Have the children understood rightly the lesson I taught? Or not? Now and then, as soon as a lesson is over, we must ask them questions. This is what they call a slip test. Now and then we must hold a quiz. In whatever way they can understand, we must tell the children the things they do not know, and give them training so that any of them can answer correctly. We must check how they are keeping the notebooks, in the way fit for that department. In this way, with the departments setting up separate committees, we must make sure that these little by little give the children the zeal and the encouragement fit for their progress.