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

34 NATIONAL EDUCATION
that we get the benefit of the gifts she
has bestowed on us. Humanity in its
education of children has chosen to
thwart and hamper the rapidity of
its onward march. Happily, saner
ideas are now beginning to prevail.
But the way has not yet been found.
The past hangs about our necks with
all its prejudices and errors and will
not leave us ; it enters into our most
radical attempts to return to the gui-
dance of the all-wise Mother. We
must have the courage to take up
clearer knowledge and apply it fear-
lessly in the interests of posterity.
Teaching by snippets must be relegat-
ed to the lumber-room of dead sorrows.
The first work is to interest the child
in life, work and knowledge, to develop
his instruments of knowledge with the
utmost thoroughness, to give him
mastery of the medium he must use.