In plain words
Teaching the way that brings peace to the world, putting an end to all narrow feelings, unity, living together and all such things, and teaching equality: is that not the finest learning?
‘Vidyā’ does not mean merely reading many books, learning many things and teaching them to many people. What fruit comes from merely reading books? You too become just like a book. Only the learning that teaches the way to bring peace to the world, and furthers unity and peaceful living together, is the finest learning. Merely studying books, reading newspapers and little booklets... All this is worldly learning. Today many people in the world pursue only this kind of study. This is merely ‘education’. It cannot be called ‘vidyā’. Only what springs from the heart is true vidyā. That itself has been called ‘educare’. There is a great difference between ‘education’ and ‘educare’. ‘Educare’ is the Foundation. It is the support; ‘education’ is what rests upon it. All the books we read today relate merely to ‘education’. Along with ‘education’, we must gain ‘educare’ too.
The great sage Vālmīki, who composed the great poem the Rāmāyaṇa, and Vyāsa, the author of the Bhāgavata, gave written form to the sacred and divine thoughts that arose in their hearts. They examined in every way whether what they had written about God was right or not, inquired deeply, and only then gave it to the world. In those days all the great sages first put into practice whatever they were to say, experienced it, and only afterwards told it to others.