राष्ट्रीय शिक्षा प्रणाली एवं भारतीय मानस (श्री अरविन्द - एकात्म शिक्षा दर्शन)

THE HUMAN MIND 5
growth. The idea of hammering
the child into the shape desired by
the parent or teacher is a barbarous
and ignorant superstition. It is he
himself who must be induced to
expand in accordance with his own
nature. There can be no greater
error than for the parent to arrange
beforehand that his son shall develop
particular qualities, capacities, ideas,
virtues, or be prepared for a pre-
arranged career. To force the nature,
to abandon its own dharma is to do it
permanent harm, mutilate its growth
and deface its perfection. It is a
selfish tyranny over a human soul and
a wound to the Nation, which loses
the benefit of the best that a man
could have given it and is forced to
accept instead something imperfect
and artificial, second rate, perfunctory
andcommon. Every one has in him