The Education Decree Quotes

“For self-educated scientists and thinkers such as Charles Darwin, Srinivasa Ramanujan, Leonardo-da-Vinci, Michael Faraday, myself and many others, education is a relentless voyage of discovery. To us education is an everlasting quest for knowledge and wisdom.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Education Decree

“The teacher should be like the conductor in the orchestra, not the trainer in the circus.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Education Decree

“The system that aims at educating our boys and girls in the same manner as in the circus where the trainer teaches the lion to sit on a stool, has not understood the true meaning of education itself. Instead of being like a circus where the trainer uses his stick to make animals do stunts to serve the interest of the audience, the system of education should be like an Orchestra where the conductor waves his stick to orchestrate the music already within the musicians’ heart in the most beautiful manner. The teacher should be like the conductor in the orchestra, not the trainer in the circus.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Education Decree

“If education were the same as information, the encyclopedias would be the greatest sages in the world.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Education Decree

“No human, no matter how ancient, or how popular, can be above the laws of Nature.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Education Decree

“Do not become self-absorbed, but become self-aware.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Education Decree

“This is not Education. It is a process of manufacturing computation devices that look like Homo sapiens.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Education Decree

“Be excellent in your own terms. Do not look for approval from a single soul on this planet. Respect yourself and in time the whole world will respect you.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Education Decree

“Don’t be defeatist due to the mistakes you make. Mistakes are inevitable part of growth.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Education Decree

“This is not education my friend. It is a process of manufacturing computation devices that look like Homo sapiens, and thereby falsely labeled as Education.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Education Decree

“The most sensitive period of their developmental age, when the kids are supposed to be taught to question everything and nourish their reasoning skills, they are taught that God created the world in seven days – that the human race did not evolve from apes through millions of years, rather it came from the amorous congress between two God-made humans, named Adam and Eve. And if you ask why? The answers of the uneducated primordial teachers would be that the scriptures say so. And now if you ask, can’t the scriptures be wrong – do I have to take these stories literally? They would lash out with rage and shout at you – how dare you question the scriptures! Every single word in it is true. There is no greater truth than the truth of these sacred texts.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Education Decree

“Real education leads to the liberation of the mind.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Education Decree

“There is nothing ideal in Nature, because it was not created by some sort of ideal Almighty Being with perfect peerless craftsmanship. Nature as it is, has evolved through millions of years out of the biological drive for survival.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Education Decree

“The world needs teachers – teachers who have broken their own shackles of indoctrination – teachers who can go beyond the narrow-mindedness of the society. A handful of these young, brave and zealous teachers in every nation, shall be enough to rekindle the spark of pure knowledge in the entire species.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Education Decree

“Bring light to the ignorant, but more light to the educated, for the vanity of education makes modern humans more ignorant than the ignorant.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Education Decree

“Education means nourishing the mind and make it develop in order to see beyond the limitations of current social perception.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Education Decree

“Sow the seeds of weakness and inferiority in the kids and they’ll grow up to be inferior, crawling, insignificant insects. Sow the seeds of courage and they’ll become brave-heart leaders who will one day change the course of human history.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Education Decree

“Love and Compassion – these are the greatest education a person can ever have.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Education Decree

“The world needs the kind of education by means of which character is formed, strength of the mind is increased and the human intellect is expanded beyond its own limits.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Education Decree

“The point is, education in its truest form, is the foundation of all human endeavors. It is the most noble of all the civilized elements of human consciousness. Education enables the humans to achieve their fullest mental and physical potential in both personal and social life. The ability of being educated is what distinguishes humans from animals. You can teach a cockatoo to repeat a bunch of vocabularies, but you cannot teach it to construct a space shuttle and go to the moon.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Education Decree

“A healthy and ideal system of education would be where a teacher would patiently impart knowledge, instead of curriculum, upon the students, only after assessing their acceptability – where a student would acquire knowledge in order to learn, not to earn – where the parents would be willing to make necessary sacrifices in order to adorn their child with curiosity and thereafter nourish that curiosity, regardless of how absurdly impractical it becomes to the eyes of the society.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Education Decree

“Continue to exercise your imagination and it will take you higher. Continue to exercise your will and it will take you higher. Continue to exercise your conscience and it will take you higher.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Education Decree

“Be excellent in your own terms.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Education Decree

“Whom the society deems worthless, once they discover their special inclination, it will change the very course of their lives as well as the shape of the very society that distastes them.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Education Decree

“In the absence of self-control, this primordial nature of the limbic brain often compels the mind to give in to evils of corruption.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Education Decree

“If you want to teach real religion to the kids, throw away the Bible, the Vedas, the Quran and all the scriptures, and teach them the religion of love.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Education Decree

“After all, what is education, if not the unparalleled means to transcend the self- imposed physical limits of the mind and the body.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Education Decree

“If you have assimilated even one idea and made it your life, you have more education than any person who has got by heart the entire Library of Congress.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Education Decree

“Politics means implementation of the best ideas for the society in the path of wellbeing and progress.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Education Decree

“The only service to be done for our downtrodden sisters and brother, is to give them education to develop their individuality. We must give them ideas, alongside cultivating their living conditions.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Education Decree