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

18 NATIONAL EDUCATION
nature. You can impose a certain
discipline on children, dress them into
a certain mould, lash them into a
desired path, but unless you can get
their hearts and natures on your side,
the conformity to this becomes a
hypocritical and heartless, often a
cowardly compliance. This is what
is done in Europe, and it leads to that
remarkable phenomenon known as the
sowing of wild oats as soon as the
yoke of discipline at School and at
home is removed, and to the social
hypocrisy which is so large a feature
of European life. Only what the man
admires and accepts, becomes part of
himself; the rest is a mask. He
conforms to the discipline of society
as he conformed to the moral routine
of home and school, but considers
himself at liberty to guide his real
life, inner and private, according to