In plain words
The bad qualities, bad feelings and bad thoughts in them must first … be removed. That itself is the goal of education.
When we wish to do this kind of tending, first of all we must set right our own … too. The teachers having kept their hearts pure …, it becomes possible to give the students pure teaching. Teachers are … water tank. The children are like taps. Whatever water we fillup in this tank, that same water comes in the …. So first of all the gurus must fill themselves with pure feelings, broad …, spiritual feelings and pāramārthika feelings. … whichever tap you turn, that same thing will keep coming there. Everyone has come for Swami's sake; … the children too have come for Swami's sake. So, first of all, before reading books and learning matters …, you must try to recognise Swami's principle. For what purpose did Swami begin … institutions? Swami expects nothing of any kind from anyone. Without any such …, founding so great an institution: is there so great an institution anywhere? But … there will be a wish. What is it? When the children become good, the country becomes good. Swami's aim is to make the best children …. Only when such students are shaped well can Bhārata … reach a very high state in the future. Today we have forgotten … this chief goal. Just as happens in the world generally, in our institution too it goes on like this: coming to the class, … teaching them the subject, going away. It is true that you … teach your own subjects well. But along with that study, along with those subjects, you must … teach saṃskāra. Only then will the hearts of these children reach a very high state.
Neither the teachers nor the students understand properly what discipline is; they understand it …ly. The children must come on time. They must be there by the time the classes begin. …endence must be marked. This is what we take to be discipline. These are the … marks of education. It is not discipline. They must come compulsory. One must … teach compulsory. They must listen. How does this become discipline? This is only natural. Discipline does not mean …. Along with these, humility and obedience, human values and pāramārthika feelings must spring up in their ….