The Adventure of Education May 1949

Teachers in no part of the world are drawn exclsively from the most intelligent and most progressive sections of the population and therefore the inspiration the young can get from the teacher is of the same kind on the whole as they may draw from the enlightened general public. [...] Harbhai Trivedi Real Cause of the World's Unhappiness The root cause of every unhappiness in the world is the various kinds of attitudes and inclinations sources of which lie hidden in the unconscious of the man. [...] The age of Ashoka the age of the Moghal Empire and the age of the Mahratta Supremacy—no matter how glorious they were in the past—are now dead. [...] The life of the entire community must flow through society and the school functions as one of the major social institutions within the life of the community. [...] The Role of the Home The home is the first educator of the child.