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

THE HUMAN MIND 7
take up the nature by the roots from
the Earth in which it must grow or
surround the mind with images and
ideas of a life which is alien to
that in which it must physically
move. If anything has to be brought
in from outside, it must be offered,
not forced on the mind. A free
and natural growth is the condi-
tion of genuine development. There
are souls which naturally revolt from
their surroundings and seem to belong
to another age and clime. Let them
be free to follow their bent; but
the majority languish, become empty,
become artificial, if artificially mould-
ed into an alien form. It is God's
arrangement that they should belong
to a particular nation, age, society, that
they should be children of the past,
possessors of the present, creators of
the future. The past is our founda-