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ashamed of being naughty, not because he is afraid of punishment.
In the first case, he makes true progress.
In the second, he falls one step down in human conscious-
ness, for fear is a degradation of consciousness.
CWM 12: 360-62
Aim of education
The aim of education is not to prepare a man to succeed in life
and society, but to increase his perfectibility to its utmost.
Do not aim at success. Our aim is perfection. Remember you
are on the threshold of a new world, participating in its birth and
instrumental in its creation. There is nothing more important than
the transformation. There is no interest more worth-while.
In a general way, education, culture, refinement of the senses
are the means of curing movements of crude instinct and desire
and passion. To obliterate them is not curing them; instead they
should be cultivated, intellectualised, refined. That is the surest
way of curing them. To give them their maximum growth in view
of the progress and development of consciousness, so that one
may attain to a sense of harmony and exactitude of perception is
a part of culture and education for the human being.
CWM 12: 120-21

You who are young, are the hope of the country. Prepare your-
selves to be worthy of this expectation.
Blessings.
Of one thing you can be sure — your future is in your hands. You
will become the man you want to be and the higher your ideal and
your aspiration, the higher will be your realisation, but you must
keep a firm resolution and never forget your true aim in life.
To be young is to live in the future.
CWM 12: 122 The Mother

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