In plain words
Good qualities, a good intellect, devotion to Satya, Bhakti, discipline, the carrying out of duty: what teaches these is education; this the student must learn.
You must not think only of today's acquaintance with books. Seeing the welfare of society, seeing the future of the country, you must bring out the individuality of the individual. Reflect, at least once, on how sacred humanness is, how divine, how grand, how fresh.
Knowing no learning and no rule, the races of birds take up the highest discipline; taking up that discipline, they have learnt to live, while man himself, who has intelligence, has strayed from intelligence and lives on: is it man alone who has no sense?
They are failing to learn those qualities.
Jantūnāṃ narajanma durlabhaṃ. Rare in what respect? In food, sleep, fear and mating there is no difference at all between men and birds, beasts, animals and the like. Jñānaṃ narāṇāṃ adhikaṃ viśeṣaḥ jñānena śūnyaḥ paśubhissamānaḥ. Jñāna itself is the chief eye in man. Without this very eye of Jñāna, he is the same as a beast. Education is man's third eye. In such sacred education we must regard character itself as its chief life. However many kinds of śāstras we may read, we must try to recognise the chief human values.
Having read through all studies and grown very discerning, the dull-witted one does not know himself in his mind; however much he studies, in whatever way he stands, the base man cannot give up his bad qualities. Study and study again, and it is only argument; never does he gain full Jñāna. Having read through all studies, why die? Study the learning that knows no death.