Goal
- The goal of Vedic Culture is self realization.
- A Culture is made up of individuals.
- The ideals of the culture must be effectively transmitted to the individual by reshaping his values and activities.
- These ideals give rise to Vedic Education as an integral part of Vedic culture.
- Vedic culture would offer the best facility for the development of the individual.
- Once trained, the individual has his place in the culture; but to be trained he must be removed from his conditional environment and be placed in a situation in which, under the guidance of the teacher, he can more objectively understand his position.
- This situation is ideally away from material / urban surroundings.
- It should be in the shelter of the teachers' Asrama.
- Education must aid developing Krsna Consciousness in the individual.
- Education must aid developing individuals as highly learned.
- Highly learned means: "when a person is highly educated and acts strictly on moral principles, he is called highly learned" (NOD Ch.21).
- The thrust of education therefore must be to develop character and philosophical realization; external knowledge and expertise are in a supportive role.