Sri Aurobindo

We have still to formulate more positively what the idea means to us, the principle and the form that national education must take in India, the thing to be achieved and the method and turn to be given to the endeavour.

The necessity and unmixed good of universal education has become a fixed dogma to the modern intelligence, a thing held to be beyond dispute by any liberal mind or awakened national conscience...

National Education. Circa 1916 ­ 18. Editorial title. An isolated paragraph from a notebook used by Sri Aurobindo in Pondicherry.

Sri Aurobindo wrote this message at the request of Annie Besant, a leader of the Home Rule movement and the editor of New India, a newspaper of Madras. It was published in New India on 8 April 1918, under the heading: “MESSAGES FROM SONS OF THE MOTHERLAND TO THEIR BROTHERS”.

An essay by Sri Aurobindo first published in 1910.