Merry Christmas

Here's wishing all my readers "Merry Christmas" !

While you enjoy the spirit of christmas there's some food for thought for all of you.
Here is an observation made by Justice S Mohan of SCI in his judgment in Unnikrishnan, J.P v. State of A.P., AIR 1993 SC 2178. This was a case, inter alia, touching upon the question: "Whether the right to education is a fundamental right? If so, up to what level - primary, secondary, higher, university and/or professional"?

"The fundamental purpose of Education is the same at all times and in all places. It is to transfigure the human personality into a pattern of perfection through a synthetic process of the development of the body, the enrichment of the mind, the sublimation of the emotions and the illumination of the spirit.

Education is a preparation for a living and for life, here and hereafter. An old Sanskrit adage states: "That is Education which leads to liberation" - liberation from ignorance which shrouds the mind; liberation from superstition which paralyses effort, liberation from prejudices which blind the Vision of the Truth.