VIVEK P.G MAHAVIDYALYA, JAIPUR

About Institution

Nearly a hundred year ago swami Vivekananda showed the close connection between culture and education. whenever there is a great culture, you will find behind it, a highly development system of education. Ancient India could produce a great culture because it development a wonderful system of education.
In those days , people took education seriously. In the Taittiriya Upanished, we find a discussion on what true tapas is. The opinion of the Vedic Rishi is: "swadhyaya pravacana eva-eti" -"study and teaching alone " constitute true tapas. Education itself is the best tapas, That is, The best Form of Human effort.
According to Swami Vivekananda, The basic Purpose of education is the total development of human personality. Everyone is endowed with certain capacities, which remain dormant, although is a potential form, in childhood. Swami Vivekananda believed education is the process by which these inherent potentialities in human personality manifest themselves in completing his or her total development.
This total development of human personality includes intellectual and moral development. most of the present day school and college curriculum only aim at intellectual development. It is in this field that western science, Technology and commerce have attained tremendous success.
Science is systematic pursuit of knowledge at empirical level. The Scientific method gives a very good training to the mind. It was by applying the scientific method that western countries made tremendous advancement in technology and acquired great wealth and power.