Tuesday, July 3, 2007
Agriculture
Here is a succinct article by M S Swaminathan, written towards the end of 2005, where he outlines an integrated plan for revival of agriculture in India.
Quotes
Prof. Huxley on Education:
"That man I think has had a liberal education who has been so trained in youth that his body is the ready servant of his will and does with ease and pleasure all the work that as a mechanism it is capable of ; whose intellect is a clear, cold, logic engine with all its parts of equal strength and in smooth working order. . .whose mind is stored with a knowledge of the fundamental truths of nature. . Whose passions are trained to come to heel by a vigorous will, the servant of a tender conscience. . .who has learnt to have all vileness and to respect others as himself. Such a one and no other, I conceive, has had a liberal education, for he is in harmony with Nature. He will make the best of her and she of him."
Gandhi on Gita:
"How was one to divest oneself of all possessions ? Was not the body itself possession enough ? Were not wife and children possessions ? Was I to destroy all the cupboards of books I had ?
I understood the Gita teaching of non-possession to mean that those who desired salvation should act like the trustee who, though having control over great possessions, regards not an iota of them as his own."
"That man I think has had a liberal education who has been so trained in youth that his body is the ready servant of his will and does with ease and pleasure all the work that as a mechanism it is capable of ; whose intellect is a clear, cold, logic engine with all its parts of equal strength and in smooth working order. . .whose mind is stored with a knowledge of the fundamental truths of nature. . Whose passions are trained to come to heel by a vigorous will, the servant of a tender conscience. . .who has learnt to have all vileness and to respect others as himself. Such a one and no other, I conceive, has had a liberal education, for he is in harmony with Nature. He will make the best of her and she of him."
Gandhi on Gita:
"How was one to divest oneself of all possessions ? Was not the body itself possession enough ? Were not wife and children possessions ? Was I to destroy all the cupboards of books I had ?
I understood the Gita teaching of non-possession to mean that those who desired salvation should act like the trustee who, though having control over great possessions, regards not an iota of them as his own."
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