the present day teachers have lost their identity as teachers. They even pressurize students to seek private tuitions in subject like Hindi, Odia, SS, and Sanskrit. They over load the students intentionally to compel him to come for private tuition. Where the institution has restrictions they send the students to preferred tutors for annual commission.

Now let us compare the situation then and the circumstances that are prevailing now. When Swamiji was alive and some decades after his death, people use to get respect for dedications and sacrifices as Swamiji did during his life time. Now the situation is just opposite. If you have money earned through corrupt means and if you can throw parties in temples, clubs or offer wine in guest houses and if you can manipulate to portray yourself as honest even if you loot the nation,you are saintly.

To squarely meet this challenge, Swamiji prescribed ‘man-making, and character-building education”.For this reason, if not for any thing else, Vivekananda’s thoughts on education ought to be seriously re-examined today and implemented without delay..

The lack of basic necessities among the under-privileged all over the country is striking but what is more striking is the lack of morality among the educated privileged ones. The under-privileged persons are suffering because they fail to meet their daily needs like food, shelter, safe water and clothes. But the educated and privileged ones are suffering and the nation suffers because they are bereft of sound morality that makes a good society.

To do this the teacher must be sound physically and sound in his character also. Without sound character, dedication, sacrifice for others, the teacher is just a body of the bus without a sound engine which is incapable of carrying the passengers i,e students.

Here the teacher must provide communication to the student to reach higher goals of life and not percentage of marks alone. As we require a bus or a train or an aero plane to reach a destination, which the communicator- bus or train is capable of making you reach actually, can our teachers become actual communicators to carry the students from ignorance and darkness to light of glory and perseverance?

Swamiji said: “He alone teaches who has some thing to give, for teaching is not talking. Teaching is not imparting doctrines, it is communicating.”

He further said: “All teaching implies giving and taking, the teacher gives and the taught receives, but one must have some thing to give, and the other must be open to receive.” Here the corrupt and greedy principal has nothing to give except a talk and the crazy students are not open to receive ideas for life-making because they only want to by-heart the theories and regurgitate in exam papers for selection in competitive examinations.

Germination of seeds of human values can take place only when certain conditions are met. Swami Vivekananda said in his discourse: “There are certain conditions necessary in the taught and also in the teacher. The conditions necessary in the taught are purity, a real thirst after knowledge, and perseverance. The true teacher is one who can throw his whole force into the tendency of the taught. Without real sympathy we can never teach well.”

Civilization does not mean only freedom without social responsibilities. True civilization means taking responsibilities for sake of others without thinking of selfish gain. Civilization is nothing but manifestation of the divine in the human beings. That is why we find that mildness, gentleness, forbearance, tolerance, sympathy, fellow feeling and so on and so forth – the signs of a healthy civilization-have not taken root in our society on an applicable scale in a global village.