Category:Our Schools (Disciples of SP)
Theme Analysis
To counteract the degrading influence of modern education, Śrīla Prabhupāda envisioned a global network of purely theistic schools. These institutions, ranging from primary gurukulas to advanced varṇāśrama colleges, are designed to train a new generation of pure devotees and protect society from illusion. By establishing these dedicated centers and simultaneously preaching within existing public school systems, the movement actively rescues innocent children and adults alike, providing them with the ultimate spiritual education.
- The Purpose of Spiritual Education: The primary goal of establishing a gurukula or varṇāśrama college is to train individuals to become first-class human beings, perfectly situated in their eternal relationship with the Supreme Lord.
- Producing Qualified Leadership: Society desperately needs genuine brāhmaṇas who can provide spiritual guidance and protection; thus, the schools are strictly meant to cultivate spotless character and deep philosophical understanding.
- Integrating the Curriculum: A complete educational system involves learning essential academic subjects while simultaneously studying foundational transcendental literatures in both Sanskrit and English.
- Infiltrating the Public Systems: Beyond creating internal academies, preachers are instructed to actively distribute books and present the philosophy within secular schools and universities to recruit intelligent new devotees.
- Protecting the Next Generation: By engaging children in joyful devotional activities from an early age and providing a purely theistic environment, the society ensures that the great mission will be carried forward successfully.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: How Prabhupāda Guides His Disciples to Establish Kṛṣṇa Conscious Schools.
Pages in category "Our Schools (Disciples of SP)"
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- Along with our temple, we shall have to construct some residential quarters for the students. And the students will remain with us. There will be no charge for their fooding or lodging. They will remain as brahmacari and go to their schools, colleges
- Also it is good to note that you are writing these children's books to comply with the academic standards of the public schools. In this way you should seriously work to compile these books along with the help of Krishna Bhamini
- Always be thinking of how to spread this Sankirtana Movement by applying our basic principles according to time and place, and I especially want that my students enter into the schools and colleges and present our Krishna philosophy and sell our books
- Another important thing is our theistic school in New Vrindaban. If you can establish a nice educational center, I know many parents of your country will be glad to send their children in New Vrindaban
- As we are training a medical practitioner and an engineer or any particular type of line, similarly, there must be training school and college where a person or a boy may be educated as a brahmana or as a ksatriya
- Aurobindo does not belong to the Bhakti school. He is more or less a dry philosopher, mental speculator, with some mystic ideas. We are simply concerned with pure devotees, so we have nothing to learn from Aurobindo
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- Go on writing more books; we need many such books for distributing to the public schools as well as for our own schools and send me the draft copies as you make them up. I will be very glad to see to them
- Gurukula is only for the small children. Preliminary, primary. And when the children are grown up, they should be sent to the varnasrama school or college for further developed training
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- I (Prabhupada) am very glad to learn that the children at Gurukula school are making good progress in their Krishna Consciousness education, that is very good news
- I am very glad to learn that the children at Gurukula school are making good progress in their Krishna Consciousness education, that is very good news
- I am very glad to see your enthusiasm in the matter of starting a Krishna Consciousness primary school in New Vrindaban and it will be just befitting that you become the head-mistress of the school
- I am very much anxious to open schools for educating children of responsible leaders in our Krishna Consciousness way of life, especially also in India
- I have very great hope for these travelling parties, our Gurukula school, and all our other projects, that by engaging ourselves in these ways, so long we do not forget the purpose of such activity then we shall very much revise the nasty situation
- I think that now that you are going to public school that you must study hard especially keeping in mind to learn how to read and write and do arithmetic. Perhaps after the summer we will have our own school in New Vrindaban & you will be a student there
- I wanted from the beginning that schoolhouse for teaching our children Krishna Consciousness. Now it seems that Krishna has fulfilled our desire
- If Dr. Wolf has become envious then we must simply avoid him. What is his complaint? The idea of the nursery school is very good idea
- If they (the children from our schools) are actually trained as perfect brahmanas, they can save society from rogues and ruffians; indeed, people can live happily under the protection of qualified brahmanas
- If we can establish such a Krishna Conscious school, certainly it will be very much attractive; that was my first suggestion in Bombay
- In our school at Dallas, the students are learning English and Sanskrit, and through these two languages they are studying all our books, such as Srimad-Bhagavatam, Bhagavad-gita As It Is and The Nectar of Devotion
- It is my desire that every American boy and girl receive a Krsna Conscious education, so your program in the Buffalo area schools is very encouraging to me
- It will be very much pleasing to me if you shall take up the big work of Gurukula school and develop it very nicely
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- Now go on teaching in this school and distributing our literatures more and more, and try to recruit some local men for becoming our disciples and helping you there
- Now we are at the Dallas school and it is very nice place and just suitable for educating your son here when he becomes old enough, at least four or five years old
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- Regarding Hrshikesh das, he may come here to Mayapur and I will discuss with him what his engagement shall be. He speaks fluent Bengali, so he may teach the local boys here at our school
- Regarding the organization of our theistic school at New Vrindaban, I am happy to know that you are now proceeding with regular classes. So it is better late than never, and now it will develop nicely
- Regarding your opening another school, if you can do it, I have no objection. But, it is a great responsibility. To open for a few days, and then close it is not good
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- So far the school is concerned, we have got in Africa and America, and we have got men experienced to teach on our line. But for dispensary, we have no experience at all
- So I shall request you to think on this matter how we can organize a small party of Brahmacaris' school, so that government may recognize it, and that will be a nice program
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- That school (in Dallas) is very, very important business, and the best man must be found out for taking charge there and developing it nicely, and if he sticks and works hard to build it up, that will please me very much
- The idea is that those who will later on accept service, they cannot be accepted by us for schooling, we cannot help them. They must be the sons of rich and important men who will not be taking education simply to use it for eating and sleeping
- The idea is that when we open our educational institute, we will require some dedicated monks, just like Christian Fathers, who have no connection with women. In that case, we can start a theological school
- The idea of beginning children's books for our school at new Vrindaban is very nice. When I shall come there in mid-May then I shall give you instructions how to do it nicely
- The importance of the school in Dallas cannot be overestimated, both for our ISKCON movement, and for the outsiders as well, indeed it is important for the whole world
- The important members of ISKCON should give careful attention to our Dallas school, where children are being taught Sanskrit and English to become perfect brahmanas
- The nursery school program is very good. That is good that the mothers are being freed to increase their devotional service. It is not that women should only produce children, but they are meant for advancing in devotion
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- We belong to the Vaisnava philosophical school, Vaisnava. Vaisnava means we want to worship God as He is, and we keep our separate identity eternally to serve Him
- We have got our school, Dallas. We are teaching the small children to make the boys first-class men, as it is enunciated in the Bhagavad-gita, and woman to become very faithful and chaste. That's all
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- Yes, we must set up our society as a school as best we can - I have already sent you letter. Please formulate the whole curriculum because we have to immediately submit to the Draft department & if this is accepted that will be great gain for our society
- You are very fortunate to be attending the Gurukula school. You please take advantage of it and become a pure devotee of Lord Krishna
- You have to make them very nice behaviour by training them and simply giving discipline. So let everyone come to our school. That is our policy, not to discriminate
- Your school preaching is very much welcomed by me. We are in need of new recruits to carry out so many ambitious programs here in India, so if you can infiltrate the school system as you did in America that will be a great service