The nations are evolving at different rates and inevitably the changing structures of schools and educational theory will vary. The loss of an ideological basis should not be seen as a calamity. On the contrary, it provides a new sense of freedom to the unconditioned mind of the child. This is a healthy and wholesome process. It is not ideology or religion but the imposition of these conditioning factors which brings harm to the expanding mind of the child.
Education is the answer to India s problems, as it is throughout the world.
The difficulty for the Indian subcontinent is the problem of implementation . No one denies the need, but the problems of educating 800 million people steeped in superstition, caste envy and hatred have until now baffled all governmental efforts. India, together with many other countries, requires the concerted aid of the developed world to ease this immense burden. Once tackled in depth, there will grow in India a new awareness of the stranglehold which ancient religious and social taboos have had throughout the centuries. A start is being made and great teachers like Sri Sathya Sai Baba are initiating new and far-reaching procedures to this end.