Relevance of Swami Vivekananda’s Thoughts in Management Education

instruction gentility is a great donee of Indian economic reform, where transformation from state controlled market to free market is imperative. In India, MBA degree has been perceived as a way of achieving assured careers and sound wages at early stage of life. The dreaming of Indian youth today is to get a job in the business, industrial or assistant sectors and settle down well as early as possible. No doubt circumspection education is posited an infusion of professional ability but the given value to society is equally important.Unfortunately, Management education in India has been so distorted and diluted in its execution as to lose almost all the social intent. In whole spectrum, the role of intuition, value and social recognition gets short shrift in the Management education. Emphasis is only on the knowledge content, on which exami estate is conducted. All other serviceable knowledge areas and skills are vastly neglected. Like spiritual knowledge does not look an ap propriate smear in the curriculum. Therefore students confirm no opportunity to know about their faith, culture and values.The knowledge they crystallise is mainly bookish and is not backed by practical experience. About a century ago, Swami Vivekananda had envision a vision on education and had categorically pointed out that true education is not the fare of information that is put into ones brain. The homosexual mind is not a bottomless dry well, which has to be change in with buckets of information by the t separatelyer. He had said that education has more to do with assimilation of ideas and growth a mind of the same material as that of which the th down the stairsbolt is made.He suggested, was to be done with the do of Western science coupled with Vedanta and faith in ones own Self. What type of management education provide provide this enlightenment? According to Swamiji, The training by which the current and expression of will are brought under control and become f ruitful is called education. He wanted a man-making education by which character is formed, aptitude of mind is increased, the intellect is expanded, and by which one mass stand on ones own feet.Swamiji emphasized need of following points in education system. * Role of teacher * Spirituality * Accessibility of knowledge * plural form strength Role of teacher Both the teacher and the student are active participants in the teaching-learning butt on. The teacher should construe upon the student not as a mere physical being but as a living and dynamic mind that struggling to manifest the light of the infinite soul. The teacher should facilitate this process of self-discovery.Teacher should not try to fill the mind with information and knowledge only. Instead he should exploit to unfold the creativity within by stimulating and strengthening the mind. The teacher has to carefully nurture the curse and faith in the mind of the students. Needless to say, teacher requires faith, pati ence, perseverance and firm conviction. This ideal of faith in oneself, or Atmashraddha, would be greatest gift of a teacher to the student. Spirituality Swami Vivekananda brings this out very distinctly in his immortal works. He said If there is any land on this earth that offer lay claim to be the blessed Punya Bhumi the land where humanity has attained its highest towards gentleness, towards generosity, towards purity, towards calmness, above all, the land of introspection and of spiritualityit is India. the Indian race neer stood for wealth. Although they acquired immense wealth, perhaps more than any other nation ever acquired, yet the nation did not stand for wealth. It was a powerful race for ages, yet we find that that nation never stood for power, never went out of the country to conquer.Quite content within their own boundaries, they never fought anybody. The Indian nation never stood for imperial glory. Wealth and power, then, were not the ideals of the race . Swami Ji enlightened that human peace and happiness depends not on the wealth they possess, or the power they wield, or the scholarship they have acquired, but by living a life of renunciation and having the awareness that they are part of the completed universe and that all constitute one family, V asudhaiva Kutumbakam. Accessibility of Knowledge Swami Ji emphasized on accessibility of education . He said If the mountain does not come to Mohammed, Mohammed must go to the mountain. If the unretentive cannot come to education, education must reach them at the plough, in the factory, everywhere. How? You have seen my brethren. Now I can get hundreds of such all-renouncing sannyasins, all over India, unselfish, good, and educated. Let these men go from village to village saving not only religion to the door of everyone but also education. Students must also be educated about the social worldthe nature of the society he lives in, the laws that guide it, and the culture it has evolved.Plura l Attitude In era of globalization people are coming closer than ever to each other. People of different languages, beliefs, religious faiths, political convictions and ways of life have come to live closely. Everyone has a right to his way of life. Dogmatism and bigotry have no place in globalized world. Therefore management education must instill these qualities in students. Thus, Swami Jis thoughts on education are like an ocean. The more we conjecture the more we get. We have to pursue the ideas of Swami ji with a deep sense of commitment to achieve objectives of education.