In plain words
We must not keep the body itself as our goal. The goal of study is not the body. Only because he keeps to this goal is man developing nothing but evil aims of this kind: money of a sort, selfishness, self-interest. That is why there should be no selfishness. Even selfishness must have a limit. So every student, without exception, must recognise the marks that are in humanness. The government today develops educational institutions in every village and in every hamlet too, and thinks that education has come into great progress. What are the qualities of education? Good qualities, good Buddhi, devotion to Satya, Bhakti, discipline, the carrying out of duty: education is precisely what teaches these, and the student must learn them. But what is this progress? We think that education is growing and growing. This is not true progress.
He does harm to the very one who did him good, he topples the very giver who fed him, he jeers at the very teacher who taught him: this is just what progress is in today's education.
So this is not our progress. To foster humanness with humility and obedience, to protect divinity and to attain godhood: that itself is true education. But the children of today are making no effort at all to recognise the principle of this education. So the whole atmosphere, all of it, is becoming polluted.
All good deeds, true and eternal, are taking on a distorted form; sacred Prakṛti, day after day, is leaving the people; the practice of Dharma and compassion is ever taking on a distorted form; the chants of Mother Veda are all falling into sorrow.
Is this the progress of education? No, no. We must show forth a humanness joined with compassion and Dharma.