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09 Jun

Cancer, Ancient Atomic Mathematics and the Science-Art of Quantum Biology

As is commonly known, the pursuit of happiness ideal was fused into the basic design of the Constitution of the United States of America. Surprisingly, no one seems to know why and how that came about. Scholars knew it had something to do with a message from ancient Egypt’s ‘Eye of Horus’, depicted at the top of a pyramid as part of the Great Seal of America. They also knew that this all-seeing eye message had been linked to the work of the Greek mathematician, Pythagoras, who had studied political ethics in ancient Egypt.

Some thought that the message might relate to a happiness of acquiring wealth through mechanical industrialisation. However, the discovery of quantum biology during the 21st Century demonstrated that a far greater potential wealth exists within new technologies able to harness the previously unknown natural properties of carbon, belonging to human life forms. The old acquisition of wealth, derived from a mechanical mindset, is now well recognised as being the cause of a future unsustainable carcinogenic existence on planet Earth. Within Science-Art research, humanity has an innate non-mechanical association with Einstein’s protege, David Bohm’s holographic universe.

The first Science-Art discovery of a holographic living force occurred late in the 20th Century, and came about by reuniting science with artistic feelings. This unification led to the discovery of new physics laws governing optimum seashell growth and development through space-time. These physics laws appear to belong to the ancient mathematics governing the political ethics embedded into the ‘pursuit of happiness’ concept. The world’s largest technological institute, IEEE in Washington, reprinted this scientific breakthrough as one of the important optics discoveries of the 20th Century, placing it alongside such names as Louis Pasteur and Sir Francis Crick.

This historical event was fused into quantum biology research theory, by the recipients of the 2010 Gorgio Napolitano Medal, awarded on behalf of the Republic of Italy for their quantum biological physics and chemistry discoveries. The second discovery was that some artists throughout history had unconsciously depicted hidden stereoscopic, holographic images, in their paintings. While new technologies have developed infinite fractal logic techniques to manufacture such images, prevailing science remains completely oblivious to the fact that the human mind can create them. This is one example of the mathematician, Cantor’s observation, that the mindset of modern science is inhabited by an unnatural fear of infinity, denying Newton’s first principles of creative gravitational force by substituting the foolish falling apple myth in its place.

In order to provide a brief outline of this interesting, but very controversial story, a historical explanation appears to be warranted. Pythagoras’ research was a precursor to the Platonic tradition of ancient Greek mathematical culture. That tradition fused further ethical concepts into Egyptian ethical atomic mathematics, in order to invent ethical science during the 3rd Century BC. The Egyptian mathematics was about the purpose of sacred geometry within invisible atoms, to make tiny seeds from which forms of life throughout the universe emerged. During the Egyptian Second Kingdom, their sacred geometrical logic, concerning justice, compassion and mercy, had been fused into political law, and later copied by other civilisations, to legalise the construction of hospitals and policies of caring for the aged.

The founding fathers of the flawed American Democratic system of politics attempted to establish a greater ethical, scientific, political system from ancient Greek science. However, the Christian Church, during the 4th Century AD, had declared the pagan mathematics to be the work of the Devil. Saint Augustine had incorrectly translated the property of unformed chaos within the atom, as being the evil of female sexuality. He associated the mathematics with the mechanistic worship of Ishtar, the Babylonian Goddess of prostitution and war. However, this was not the mathematics that the Great Library of Alexandria was developing at the time. Nonetheless its Science-Art scrolls were destroyed by rioting Christian fanatics.

The linking of the Egyptian pursuit of happiness concept to quantum biological cancer research, during the 21st Century, was clearly predicted by the mathematician, Georg Cantor. Born in 1845, Cantor developed his infinite mathematical theories from the ancient Greek ethical science, derived from earlier Egyptian atomic mathematics. His work is now basic to modern scientific science. However, Cantor’s ability to intuit the future discovery of Mandelbrot’s infinite fractal logic, embraced ideas that prevailing Christian oriented science, finds completely incomprehensible.

Cantor knew that Aristotle was a central figure in the Platonic tradition of philosophy and investigated the mathematical theory upholding his research into the pursuit of happiness concept. Aristotle had linked the pursuit of happiness to a future science, to guide ennobling government for the health of the universe. This idea was obviously about a future medical science, using sacred geometrical logical ideas, beyond the limitations of our prevailing science, which considers that the only universal energy in existence flows from hot to cold. Cantor saw that the living process extended to infinity, in contradiction to this universal heat death concept, which condemns all life to eventual extinction. This universal heat death sentence became scientifically irrevocable after Charles Darwin used it as the basis of his evolutionary theory. Later, Einstein declared that this entropic law governed all aspects of science, including political, economic and medical.

When the framers of the American Constitution tried to bring Aristotle’s political vision into reality they defined the ethical idea of liberty incorrectly. Liberty embracing the pursuit of happiness within a medical science for universal health was assumed to obey Sir Isaac Newton’s emotionless laws governing the workings of his mechanical universe. The Founding Fathers, unaware of Newton’s more natural, profound theory of gravitation, erroneously based the concept of liberty only upon his mechanical description of the universe. Newton published his little known theory at the risk of being burnt alive by order of the Church. He insisted that gravitational force was a non-mechanical spiritual force evolving emotional consciousness within an infinite universe. As a result of publishing that opinion he was held by the Church to be criminally insane, and suffered a mental breakdown for which he was hospitalised.

Newton was most likely aware that his contemporary, the philosopher of science, Giordano Bruno, had been imprisoned by the Church in Rome, tortured, then burnt alive for teaching about the ethical Greek science at Oxford University. Newton’s published heretical gravitational theory was featured in his 28th Query Discussions in the second edition of his famous journal, Opticks, as anyone can easily verify. Also, his unpublished Heresy Papers and copies of his private letters, written during the height of his genius, demonstrate that Newton was not insane when he published his spiritual theory of gravity. Newton most certainly did not believe that reality was governed by the functioning of a clockwork universe, as modern quantum mechanics science had incorrectly assumed.

The Romantic era, from about 1800 to 1850, consisted of an artistic, literary and philosophical movement, which erroneously condemned Newton for promoting lifeless theories of science. The movement was ignorant that his first physics principles actually associated gravity with the living process, derived from ancient Greek Platonic science. William Blake, the poet and artist, along with other principle figures of the Romantic era, held Newton in contempt. They had not realised that Immanuel Kant, 1724-1804, one of the most influential philosophers of science in the history of Western philosophy, had given electromagnetic properties to Newton’s concept of emotional gravitational force. They were also unaware of the scientific insights of the poet, Alexander Pope, who had been greatly praised by Kant for his knowledge of ancient Greek philosophy.

Alexander Pope is considered one of the greatest English poets of the eighteenth century. His famous ‘Essay on Man’ consisted of four parts. The first Epistle, was about man’s place in the universe; Epistle II, was concerned with the individual person; Epistle III related to man within human society governed by political structures; and Epistle IV with the political ideal of the pursuit of happiness.

Alexander Pope’s concept of an ethical infinite universal purpose can be seen to be compatible to Newton’s theory of gravitational force, evolving ethical emotional consciousness within an infinite universe. Einstein modified Newton’s theory of light and later altered it to give more credence to Newton’s original concept. Some scholars have considered that Alexander Pope’s linking of Newton’s theory of light to an infinite ethical purpose, from the perspective of Kantian pure logic, explains why Immanuel Kant considered Alexander Pope to be a great genius. Pope’s ideas were well known to the leaders of the electromagnetic Golden Age of Danish Science.

In 2002, Harvard University and Massachusetts University held an international symposium to tell the world of the social importance of the message of the electromagnetic Danish Golden Age of Science. They noted that its crucial message had been written mostly in Danish and not translated, making it invisible to English speaking scholarship. However, Immanuel Kant, a leading personality of that Golden Age, had written that the English poet, Alexander Pope, had given the ancient Greek theories an artistic expression. The discoverer of the electromagnetic field, Hans Christian Oersted and his colleague, Friedrich Schelling, were also principle figures of the Golden Age. Their own Science-Art theories gave credence to Newton’s first principles, necessary for the healthy and ethical evolution of humanity. Their theories have been associated with Alexander Pope’s development of a similar concept.

Georg Cantor’s mathematical logic condemned the idea that all life in the universe must be destroyed after its heat had radiated away into cold space. This universal heat death law simply contradicted his discovery of mathematical infinity, which he had linked to the evolution of life. His work, attacked by many of the world’s leading mathematicians, led to his conclusion that the scientific mind was inhabited by a primitive, myopic fear of infinity. The solution to this emotionally traumatic, carcinogenic situation can be easily obtained in the light of advanced quantum biology cancer research. But it requires a more profound understanding about Aristotle’s concept of a medical science needed to guide ennobling government.

A first step is to produce evidence that this illogical scientific fear of infinity does exist. Modern science knows very well that an infinite fractal logic exists, but it is unable to allow for fractals to be part of the living process as it is obsessed with its falsely assumed thermodynamic extinction. This is completely illogical because the functioning of the molecule of emotion has been identified, beyond doubt, as obeying infinite fractal logic.

A second step is to refer to Sir Isaac Newton’s firm conviction that the universe is infinite. His first principles of gravitational force were not mechanical but belonged to the ancient Geek emotional atomistic science, as mentioned above. Whether or not this was a criminally insane reasoning, as claimed by the Church, is of no importance. Isaac Newton most certainly did not advocate a mechanical clockwork-like universe. Therefore, Einstein’s stating that the mechanical heat death law was the premier law of all the sciences, in particular political, economic and medical economic sciences, were based upon false assumptions. Isaac Newton wrote that such a pretentious scientific first principle logic would contaminate scientific philosophy, just as the mathematician, Cantor, discovered when he researched the origins of the concept of the pursuit of happiness.

In advanced quantum biology cancer research Einstein’s energies of mechanical quantum chaos are entangled with another universal energy, known as Shannon-Weiner information energy, which does not flow from hot to cold. The 1937 Nobel Laureate, Szent-Gyorgyi, noted that failure to visualise that consciousness evolved through such an energy entanglement depicted a primitive mindset associated with cancerous growth and development.

The book ‘Phantoms in the Brain’, written by V.S Ramachandran M.D., Ph.D., and Sandra Blakeslee, about how the brain works, was very highly acclaimed by Nobel Laureate, Francis Crick Ph.D.,. Within the book, mention is made of the mental affliction known as anosognosia, about which almost nothing is known. The question is raised as to why this affliction should exist when it seems detrimental to our survival. Anosognosis can be considered to present a model of denial that the mathematician, Georg Cantor, described as existing within the scientific mind, as a blind fear of infinity.

The human survival message contained in ‘Phantoms in the Brain’ is so advanced that it can be considered to readily apply to solving the current extinction obsession inhabiting the modern scientific mind. The funding to carry out this objective will come from a new understanding of first cause cancer research principles and this will be made possible by reuniting the culture of art with the culture of science. That project has been publicly classified by leading quantum biologists in Europe as being the rebirth of the lost original Greek science – the 21st Century Renaissance.

Quantum biology cancer research not only addresses this human survival problem but can be seen to be the foundation upon which an omni human survival technology can be constructed. This technology was clearly alluded to by the champion of American liberty, Ralph Waldo Emerson, during Georg Cantor’s lifetime. Emerson echoed Cantor’s concern that an association of infinite mathematical logic with human evolution was not tolerated within the American scientific mind. His logic argued that infinite Sanskrit mathematics, leading to a truly democratic technological culture, had been forbidden, because industrial mechanical greed had enslaved the minds of the American people to deny its very existence. He blamed this phenomenon upon America having inherited a false mechanical, mathematical worldview from ancient Babylonian culture.

The 1957 the New York University of Science Library published a book entitled ‘Babylonian Myth and Modern Science’ which stated that Einstein had developed his theory of relativity from the intuitive mythological mathematics of ancient Babylon. Unintentionally, Einstein’s great genius was only about the mechanical functioning of the universe, which can now be successfully modified through its entanglement with the information energies of quantum biology. Reference to ancient Mesopotamian cultures leads to a storybook tale of how and why the mental disease of anosognosis led to modern science worshipping the concept of human extinction. The worship of Einstein’s heat death law, sentencing humanity to extinction, was the one that the mathematician, Lord Bertrand Russell, advocated in his most famous essay, ‘A Freeman’s Worship’. Both Russell and Einstein were awarded Nobel Prizes for their mechanistic, entropic worldview theories.

The Pyramid Texts discovered by Gaston Maspero in 1881 were about the advanced sacred geometrical purpose within invisible atoms, depicted by the Egyptian god Atum. The god declared, from the dark abyss of initial chaos ‘Let there be light’, centuries before the Hebrew and Christian religions came into being. Atum decreed that all created life would eventually return back into the original state of chaos, which modern science now accepts as being inevitable.

During the reign of Pharaoh Akhenaten the various Egyptian gods were dismissed and the worship of one god, the sun god, Ra, was established. That period was short-lived and Akhenaten’s city, built to honour Ra, quickly fell into ruin. During the reign of Ramses the Great, the Egyptian religion governing political law followed the teachings of the Goddess, Maat, in which humans could become immortal within an infinite universe. The geometrical logic of the infinite Egyptian mathematics was further developed by Greek scholars, such as Thales during the 6th Century BC and Pythagoras in the 5th Century BC. The Platonic tradition of Greek philosophy used the ethical atomic mathematics to invent ethical science in the 3rd Century BC. The Greeks defined gravity as an emotional whirling force acting upon primitive particles in space, to make the worlds spin and generate harmonic knowledge to guide the evolution of ethical, emotional thought.

In 2008, The Times Literary Supplement included ‘The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution’ by C P Snow in its list of the 100 books that most influenced Western public discourse since the Second World War. It is crucial that we now heed the warning by the molecular biologist, Sir C P Snow, during his 1959 Reid Lecture at Cambridge University, that unless science and art are again reunited, despite modern science’s primitive belief in the universal heat death extinction law, then civilisation will be destroyed.



Source by Robert Pope

09 May

Ancient Greek Impact on Mathematics

Greek Impact on Western Civilization

Ancient Greece has been one of the greatest civilization’s to have ever flourished because of its enormous impact it had on Western Civilization.

The Classical Age of Greece (8th century BC – 146 BC) was characterized by colonization and Homer’s Iliad and the Odyssey were the first two greatest epics in world literature.

During the Golden Age of Greece in the 5th century BC, the greatest artistic, literary, architectural, scientific, philosophical and sporting achievements took place.

Historians, Herodotus and Thucydides, Hippocrates, the Father of Medicine and the philosophers, Plato and Socrates all lived and worked in 5th-century BC Athens.

Today, we can gaze at the arcthitectural wonders of ancient Greece and gain an insight to the wisdom of ancient Greek philosophers.

The Hellenistic Age (4th to 1st century BC) was Alexander the Great’s legacy to the world when Greek culture dominated the Mediterranean and Middle East and Greek became the international language.

Hellenistic Alexandria

From about 350 B.C. the center of mathematics moved from Athens to Hellenistic Alexandria, a port city in northern Egypt, founded in 331-BC by Alexander the Great and built by his chief architect, Dinocrates of Rhodes.

Rhodes Island is famous for the Colossus of Rhodes, a 33-metre-high statue of the Greek sun-god Helios which straddled the harbor of the city and was one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.

The Greek, Ptolemaic dynasty ruled Egypt (from 305 to 30 BC) during the Hellenistic Period.

Cleopatra VII Philopator (69 – 30 BC), was a descendant of its founder Ptolemy I Soter, a Macedonian, Greek general of Alexander the Great.

The Great Library of Alexandria was one of the largest libraries of the ancient world and its Museum had scholars such as Euclid (Greek mathematician and “Father of Geometry”) and Eratosthenes (Greek mathematician, geographer and chief librarian) who worked there.

Importance of Mathematics

There are two periods of Greek mathematics:

1. The Classical Period (600-B.C. to 300-B.C.)

2. The Alexandrian or Hellenistic Period (300-B.C. to 300-A.D.)

The word “mathematics” is derived from the ancient Greek word “mathema” which means “knowledge or learning” and is the study of numbers, shapes and patterns.

It deals with logic of reason, quantity, arrangement, sequence and almost everything we do today.

Famous Greek Mathematicians and Their Contributions

Pythagoras of Samos (570 BC – 495 BC)

Pythagoras of Samos is the Father of the famous “Pythagoras theorem”, a mathematical formula which states that the square of the hypotenuse of a right triangle is equal to the sum of the squares on the other two sides.

Samos was famous in antiquity for its navy, wine, and sanctuary to Hera, a goddess in ancient Greek mythology.

Pythagoras taught that Earth was a sphere in the center of the universe and that the paths of the planets were circular.

Pythagoreanism

Pythagoras founded Pythagoreanism which made important developments in mathematics, astronomy, and the theory of music.

Many 6th, 5th, and 4th-century’s most prominent Greek thinkers are labeled Pythagoreans such as Parmenides, Plato and Aristotle.

Plato (428/427 or 424/423 – 348/347-BC) was an Athenian philosopher during the Classical period in Ancient Greece who founded the Platonist school of thought and the Academy, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world.

Parmenides of Elea (late 6th or early-5th-century BC) was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher from Elea in Magna Graecia (“Greater Greece,” meaning Greek-populated areas in Southern Italy) who founded metaphysics (branch of philosophy that examines the fundamental nature of reality).

Euclid of Alexandria (around 300 – 270-BC)

Euclid is the father of geometry (Euclidean geometry) who was active in Alexandria during the reign of Ptolemy I (323-283 BC).

He made revolutionary contributions to geometry and introduced the axiomatic method still used in mathematics today, consisting of definition, axiom, theorem, and proof.

His book, Elements, served as the main textbook for teaching mathematics (especially geometry) from the time of its publication until the early 20th century.

Archimedes of Syracuse (287 – 212-BC)

Archimedes is the Father of mathematics and is considered the greatest mathematician of antiquity.

He lived in the Greek city of Syracuse, Sicily, his birthplace.

His father, Phidias was a mathematician and astronomer.

Archimedes revolutionised geometry and his methods anticipated the integral calculus (its applications include computations involving area, volume, arc length, center of mass, work, and pressure).

He is also known for the invention of compound pulleys and the Archimidean screw pump device (machine used for transferring water from a low-lying body of water into irrigation ditches).

Thales of Miletus (624-620 – 548-545-BC)

Miletus was an ancient Greek city in Ionia, Asia Minor (now modern Turkey).

Thales was a pre-Socratic philosopher, mathematician and astronomer, renowned as one of the legendary Seven Wise Men, or Sophoi, of antiquity.

He’s best known for his work in calculating the heights of pyramids and the distance of the ships from the shore using geometry.

Aristotle (384 – 322-BC)

Aristotle was born in Stagira, an ancient Greek city near the eastern coast of the peninsula of Chalkidice of Central Macedonia.

Aristotle was a pupil of Plato and made contributions towards Platonism.

He was a polymath (knowledge spans many subjects) during the Classical period of Ancient Greece which included mathematics, geology, physics, metaphysics, biology, medicine and psychology.

He was the founder of the Lyceum, the Peripatetic school of philosophy, and the Aristotelian tradition.

Aristotle tutored Alexander the Great and established a library which aided in the production of hundreds of books.

From his teachings, Western Civilization inherited its intellectual lexicon on almost every form of knowledge.

Diophantus of Alexandria (around 200 – 214-AD – 284 and 298-AD)

Greek mathematician, known as the father of algebra and the compilation of a series of books called Arithmetica dealing with solving algebraic equations.

He was the first Greek mathematician to recognize fractions as numbers.

Eratosthenes of Cyrene (276 – 194-BC)

Cyrene was an ancient Greek city in Libya and founded in 631-BC.

Eratosthenes was a Greek mathematician, geographer, poet, astronomer, and music theorist who became the chief librarian at the Library of Alexandria.

His work involved the study of geography and he introduced some of the terminology still used today.

Eratosthenes correctly calculated the circumference of the earth and the tilt of the Earth’s axis.

Hipparchus of Nicaea (190 – 120-BC)

Nicaea was an ancient Greek city in Anatolia, Asia Minor (now modern Turkey).

Hipparchus was a Greek astronomer, geographer, and mathematician who made many mathematical contributions.

He was the founder of trigonometry and the first mathematical trigonometric table.

Hipparchus was also the first to develop a reliable method to predict solar eclipses.

Heron of Alexandria (10 – 70-AD)

Heron is considered the greatest experimenter of antiquity and is remembered for Heron’s formula, a way to calculate the area of a triangle using only the lengths of its sides.

He was also an important geometer (mathematician who specializes in the study of geometry) and who invented many machines including a steam turbine.

Ptolemy of Alexandria (100 – 170-AD)

Ptolemy was a Greek mathematician, astronomer and geographer who wrote several scientific researches.

The Great treatise is one of his renowned works now known as Almagest on astronomy.

His world map, published as part of his treatise Geography in the 2nd century, was the first to use longitudinal and latitudinal lines.

Hypatia of Alexandria (355 – 415-BC)

Hypatia, the daughter of a mathematician, was the first woman known to have taught mathematics and to make valuable contributions in the field of mathematics.

She was also a philosopher who taught as the head at a school, the knowledge of Plato and Aristotle.

Hypatia was the first woman to pursue her dreams and became an inspiration to many young women.

Antiphon of Rhamnus (480 – 411-BC)

Rhamnus, an ancient Greek city in Attica, a historical region of Athens, is situated on the coast, overlooking the Euboean Strait.

Antiphon was the earliest of the ten Attic orators, and an important figure in 5th-century Athenian political and intellectual life.

He was the first to give an upper and lower bound for the values of Pi by inscribing and then circumscribing a polygon around a circle and finally proceeding to calculate the polygons areas. The method was applied to squaring the circle.



Source by Andrew Papas

06 Aug

Ancient Indian Education and Ethics – Its Relevance Today

We are here to critically understand the relevance of Ancient Indian education system in the modern time. Has the modern education ethos has helped to understand the Indian society. Do we want to become original thinkers again or remain in the present system which breeds mediocrity? India need to think carefully how much foreign system of education has helped her. Time has come to go back to high level of education which will produce thinkers.

Basis of Indian education has been learning and understanding. It became just memorizing after countless invasions. India was the most prosperous nation in the world in the ancient times. It believed in exploitation of the natural resources just that much which was needed. Excessive exploitation of natural resources was not done nor was it encouraged. In India people worship nature: plants, wind, fire, water, sun and so on. This proves the respect it gave to all the living plants and animals on the Earth. In Hindu religion it is said that over exploitation of the sea, should be avoided and that is known as “samudramanthan.” Giving education was considered as noble job, a solemn duty of the teacher and he should not expect remuneration from the students. A teacher used to be dedicated and did take teaching as a mission.

Academics also helped to reform the societies. We could recall the contribution made by the great economics teacher of Takshashila and Nalanda Universities; Chankaya who realized that for economic development in the region it was necessary to make an undivided nation: India. He helped Chandragupta to establish the Mauryan Empire which ruled the entire subcontinent and beyond. This empire in recent time gave the system that gave us the ethical standards which Indians value even now. The education standards were high and people came from far lands to study all streams of subjects here in India. Indians also worship goddess of education “Saraswati.” Even today it is celebrated with great fanfare.

Hindus do have a function where the child is introduced to learning and that is the culture of India. Indian society is based on education. People in education are given the highest position in society called Brahmins. In ancient times one had to work very hard to become a Brahmin. In those days it was not by birth. One had to take that profession then only he could become a Brahmin. The Brahmin could not take money to give education. Education in ancient India was free to all. The kingdom would fund education. India is a country which has low literacy but high education. People know about life, nature, plants, and its importance and so on.

Indian education system was based on the principle of total development; mind and emotions. Indian system paid great emphasis to development of ethical sole and therefore, introduced brahmacharya system. During this period a student is supposed to learn only. Indian system gave emphasis to learning through practice. It was indeed based on religious practices and religious acts. One must appreciate that religion in those days was just a way of life hence, no conflict with education. One had to follow a strict way of life which one has to still follow. Athavaveda an ancient book talks in detail the education part; the system and methods to be followed.

It however, had some defects. Education was restricted to those who deserve and was not available to all. Second it was Guru (teacher) centric i.e. for every thing one had to depend on the guru and his knowledge was considered perfect. Buddhism democratized the education by allowing all to study. This helped to spread education and institutionalise education by forming Universities. Buddhism did not deviate from Hindu system of imparting education but made it broad-based. Here again educators and students had to be religious people and had to follow a strict rules. Even here it was not fully devoid of old Guru System. Even Buddha said “Buddham saranam gachchami” (Come to Buddha to get enlightenment). Mind you, in ancient times the great saints did research on their own and developed body of knowledge which was in contrast to what Buddha said. However, he challenged the system of concentration of knowledge in few hand. This might have diluted the quality of knowledge but this improved the understanding of the people in general in India.

This also developed a bond among people of India which is keeping this country together. This is the secret of unity in diversity of India. A diverse country became one population having same principle of life that is achieving mokshya (eternal bliss).

Indians always paid great importance to education which would improve the ethical standard of the population. Resilience of ancient Indian education system was proved again and again. Since the early stages of foreign invasion India lost all its material wealth but not the Indian ethos and superiority of our (Arian) culture and believes. This was possible because of the foundation of Indian education system. Others talk about Ethics but Indians practice through education.

Aims of the Indian System as I think were:

1. The direct aim was to make all students fit to become useful members of the society so that they could follow the duties of all other Ashrams of life faithfully.
2. The aim was to make firm and good character through moral values.
3. The Indian education system made a distinction between mere scholarship and total education.
4. The aim of the system was development of total personality.
5. Next was inculcation of civic and social duties. India in ancient time was a society mainly governed by social laws which gave us our strength. It is the only society where the social system of conducting business was so strong and independent that we survived in spite of foreign invasion and rule.
6. Indian education promoted social efficiency and happiness. We all know in our ancient books there are examples of people helping the society.
7. Ancient education system taught preservation of national heritage and culture hence we still have a culture different from all other societies. This still remains our strength and some day we will be able to re-establish our national pride. This has given us the unbroken continuity since the ancient times. It is the strength of our ancient education that we survive as a nation.

Then the question is where did we go wrong? Our education system got encased in a shell for it had to be protected from foreign influence. This violent massacre of our culture by foreign invaders made us extremely introvert. The openness of our society was lost and formal education became the domain of few. This destroyed the ability of our academia to expand knowledge. The burning of our established centers of education made people scared. The mass lost the desire to learn because they did not value home-grown knowledge. People drifted from formal learning process and this gave way to all sorts of raw practices in our society. Indian society lost the basic ability to acquire and take advantage of knowledge. The body of knowledge became foreign which was a rare commodity only the rich could afford. The British rule took advantage of this void and introduced a system to suit needs of the Empire. The system did not encourage beyond copying. This practice is still prevalent in Indian education system. It discourages boys from having their own independent opinion on a subject.

We stopped learning and all our ancient texts were being considered as part of religion. We should re-design our education system incorporating the main ethos of our time- tested old system with new knowledge. We must reintroduce the concept of self-control which has been there in our society. This may make our people to appreciate need for ethical standards. Yes, let us go back to the relationship that existed between education and society defined by our age-old tested system. The quality of some of the books written 2500 years ago or beyond is so high that people of today can not write. That was the level of our original research why and when we lost that ability is a matter of concern even now. We must revive that and rebuild the education system in India as we want it; the total development. Copying of the west has not helped and it shall not help in future this has to be recognized once for all. We believe in the Ethical values of the society and that can not be compromised at any cost. Society has lost thousands of years and let us not loses further time in search of right education for India.
Dr Aloke Chakravartty
Dean
School of Management
Brainware
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Source by Aloke Chakravartty