INTRODUCTION
Swami Vivekananda was not only a
social reformer, but also the educator, a great Vedanta’s, patriot prophet of
India, born at Calcutta in 1863, who sought to modernize the nation of its
social and cultural harmony. His contribution to the awakening of modern India
is critique in its kind and quality. If education is viewed as the most
powerful instrument of social change, his contribution to educational thought
is of paramount importance. He defines education as ‘the manifestation of
perfection that is already in man.
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According to him education is a
continuous process; it should cover all aspects of life - physical, material,
intellectual, emotional, moral, and spiritual. His attitude towards
modernization is that the masses should be educated before anything else is
done. He wanted to remove from India four major evils, via; 1) priest-craft, 2)
poverty 3) ignorance 4) tyranny of the wise. He tried to make the people of
India understood that political and social strength should have their
foundations on cultural strength. He has a true vision of philosophy of
education in India in its cultural context.
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