1. Rigved: "Education is something which makes man self-reliant and selfless". 2. Upanishad: "Education is for liberation". 3.

Bhagavad Gita: "Nothing is more purifying on earth than wisdom." 4. Shankaracharya: "Education is the realization of self'. 5. Gunrunner: "Education is self-realization and service to people". 6. Kautilya: "Education means training of the country and love of the nation". 7. Panini: "Human education means the training which one gets from nature". 8. Vivekanand: Education is the manifestation of the divine perfection, already existing in man." 9. Gandhi: "By education, I mean an all-round drawing out of the best in the Child and man body, mind and spirit." 10. Tagore: "The widest road leading to the solution of all our problems is education." 11. Sri Aurobindo: "Education which will offer the tools whereby one can live for the divine, for the country, for oneself and for others and this must be the ideal of every school which calls itself national". Concepts of Education as defined by Western philosophers. 1. Socrates: "Education means the bringing out of the ideas of universal validity which are latent in the mind of every man".

2. Plato: "Education is the capacity to feel pleasure and pain at the right moment. It develops in the body and in the soul of the pupil all the beauty and all the perfection which he is capable of." 3. Aristotle: "Education is the creation of a sound mind in a sound body. It develops man's faculty, especially his mind so that he may be able to enjoy the contemplation of supreme truth, goodness and beauty of which perfect happiness essentially consists. 4. Rousseau: "Education of man commences at his birth; before he can speak, before he can understand he is already instructed. Experience is the forerunner of the perfect". 5. Herbert Spencer: "Education is complete living". 6. Heinrich Pestalozzi: "Education is natural harmonious and progressive development of man's innate powers". 7. Friedrich Willian Froebel: "Education is unfoldment of what is already enfolded in the germ. It is the process through which the child makes internal external". he country fondly remembered former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi on her 27th death anniversary on Monday with President Pratibha Patil leading the nation in paying rich tributes to the departed leader. Ms. Patil paid floral tributes at Shakti Sthal, the memorial of Indira Gandhi, here this morning. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar, Congress chief Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi were also present on the occasion. Delhi Lt. Governor Tejinder Khanna, Union Ministers Vilasrao Deshmukh, Kamal Nath, K.V. Thomas, N. Narayana

Swamy and Krishna Tirath and senior Congress leaders Motilal Vohra, Manishankar Aiyar were also present. Devotional songs were played at the venue as the dignitaries sat at Shakti Sthal after paying tributes to the late leader. A speech by Indira Gandhi was also played on the occasion. The former Prime Minister was assassinated by her bodyguards on October 31, 1984, the same year when she had launched Operation Blue Star to crush secessionist movement in Punjab and sent troops into the Golden Temple of Amritsar. Keywords: Indira Gandhi 27th death anniversary, Shakti Sthal The country fondly remembered former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi on her 27th death anniversary today with President Pratibha Patil leading the nation in paying rich tributes to the departed leader. Patil paid floral tributes at Shakti Sthal, the memorial of Gandhi, here this morning. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar, Congress chief Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi were also present on the occasion. Delhi Lt Governor Tejinder Khanna, Union Ministers Vilasrao Deshmukh, Kamal Nath, K V Thomas, N Narayana Swamy and Krishna Tirath and senior Congress leaders Motilal Vohra, Manishankar Aiyar were also present. Devotional songs were played at the venue as the dignitaries sat

at Shakti Sthal after paying tributes to the late leader. A speech by Indira Gandhi was also played on the occasion. The former prime minister was assassinated by her bodyguards on October 31, 1984, the same year when she had launched 'Operation Blue Star' to crush secessionist movement in Punjab and sent troops into the Golden Temple of Amritsar. The country fondly remembered former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi on her 27th death anniversary today with President Pratibha Patil leading the nation in paying rich tributes to the departed leader. Patil paid floral tributes at Shakti Sthal, the memorial of Gandhi, here this morning. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar, Congress chief Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi were also present on the occasion. Delhi Lt Governor Tejinder Khanna, Union Ministers Vilasrao Deshmukh, Kamal Nath, K V Thomas, N Narayana Swamy and Krishna Tirath and senior Congress leaders Motilal Vohra, Manishankar Aiyar were also present. Devotional songs were played at the venue as the dignitaries sat at Shakti Sthal after paying tributes to the late leader. A speech by Indira Gandhi was also played on the occasion. The former prime minister was assassinated by her bodyguards on October 31, 1984, the same year when she had launched 'Operation Blue Star' to crush secessionist movement in Punjab and sent troops into the Golden Temple of Amritsar. Sardar Vallabhbhai Jhaverbhai Patel (Hindi

pronunciation: [llbbai pel] ( listen)) (31 October 1875 15 December 1950) was an Indian barrister and statesman, one of the leaders of the Indian National Congress and one of the founding fathers of the Republic of India. He is known to be a social leader of India who played an unparalleled role in the country's struggle for independence and guided its integration into a united, independent nation. Therefore he is also regarded as the "Bismarck of India" and "Iron Man of India". In India and across the world, he was often addressed as Sardar, which means Chief in Hindi, Urdu, and Persian. He was raised in the countryside of Gujarat in a family of Gurjar Leva-Patidars[1] Vallabhbhai Patel was employed in successful practice as a lawyer when he was first inspired by the work and philosophy of Mahatma Gandhi. Patel subsequently organised the peasants of Kheda, Borsad, and Bardoli in Gujarat in nonviolent civil disobedience against oppressive policies imposed by the British Raj; in this role, he became one of the most influential leaders in Gujarat. He rose to the leadership of the Indian National Congress and was at the forefront of rebellions and political events, organising the party for elections in 1934 and 1937, and promoting the Quit India movement. As the first Home Minister and Deputy Prime Minister of India, Patel organised relief for refugees in Punjab and Delhi, and led efforts to restore peace across the nation. Patel took charge of the task to forge a united India from the British colonial provincesallocated to India and more than five hundred selfgoverning princely states, released from British suzerainty by the Indian Independence Act 1947. Using frank diplomacy, backed with the option and use of military force, Patel's leadership persuaded almost every princely state which did not have a Muslim majority to accede to India. Hailed as the Iron Man of India, he is also remembered as the "Patron Saint" of India's civil servants for establishing modern all-India services. Patel was

also one of the earliest proponents of property rights and free enterprise in India.