ABSTRACT
The Australian school will probably strive to lay the foundations of agriculture. The schools of a scientific age will recognise the importance of science, and those of a classical revival, that of dead languages. In Bengal under the Sanskrit Renascence of the Guptas, knowledge of the Sanskrit language and literature became the distinctive mark of a gentleman. The training of the attention— rather than the learning of any special subject, or the development of any particular faculty— has always been, as the Swami Vivekananda claimed for it, the chosen goal of Hindu education. Great men have been only as incidents, in the tale of the national effort, to achieve control and self-direction of the mind itself. Common education must be reverenced as a sacrament, making the opportunity for this exaltation and consecration. Education has to deal with various factors, the imparting of special processes, the assimilating of certain kinds and quantities of knowledge, the development of the man himself.
