Swami Vivekananda critiques contemporary education for lacking a clear purpose, advocating instead for 'man-making' education aligned with Vedanta philosophy. He defines education as the manifestation of inherent perfection within individuals and emphasizes the elimination of ego and ignorance through meditation and moral purity. Vivekananda also notes the unity of all religions, asserting that divine essence is present in every faith.

1. SWAMI VIVEKANANDA’S EDUCATION
• Vivekananda points out that the defect of the
present-day education is that it has no definite
goal to pursue. A sculptor has a clear idea
about what he wants to shape out of the
marble block; similarly, a painter knows what
he is going to paint. But a teacher, he says, has
no clear idea about the goal of his teaching.

2. SWAMIJI’S EDUCATION
• Swamiji attempts to establish, through his words
and deeds, that the end of all education is man
making. He prepares the scheme of this man-
making education in the light of his over-all
philosophy of Vedanta. According to Vedanta, the
essence of man lies in his soul, which he
possesses in addition to his body and mind. In
true with this philosophy, Swamiji defines
education as ‘the manifestation of the perfection
already in man.’

3. AIM OF EDUCATION
• The aim of education is to manifest in our lives
the perfection, which is the very nature of our
inner self.
• This perfection is the realization of the infinite
power which resides in everything and every-
where-existence, consciousness and bliss
(satchidananda).

4. EDUCATION ONLY BY IGNORING EGO
After understanding the essential nature of
SOUL’S perfection, we should identify it with
our inner self.
For achieving this, one will have to eliminate
one’s ego, ignorance and all other false
identification, which stand in the way.

5. MEDITATION & MORALITY IS MUST
Meditation, fortified by moral purity and passion
for truth, helps man to leave behind the body,
the senses, the ego and all other non-self
elements, which are perishable. He thus
realizes his immortal divine self, which is of
the nature of infinite existence, infinite
knowledge and infinite bliss.

6. ALL RELIGION’S ARE ONE
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA
• It was reserved for America to proclaim to all quarters of
the globe that the Lord is in every religion.
• May He who is the Brahman of the Hindus, the Ahura-
Mazda of the Zoroastrians, the Buddha of the Buddhists,
the Jehovah of the Jews, the Father in Heaven of the
Christians, give strength to you to carry out your noble
idea! The star arose in the East; it travelled steadily
towards the West, sometimes dimmed and sometimes
effulgent, till it made a circuit of the world; and now it is
again rising on the very horizon of the East, the borders
of the Sanpo, a thousandfold more effulgent than it ever
was before.
• c.f. Compete Works, VOL.:1