It is most important to recognize that what Sri Aurobindo and The Mother propose is not only a mental principle, it is a new idea of life and a realization of consciousness.

It has been said: All life is education.

Yes, without a doubt, if one recognizes that one never stops learning, that progress can be made in every least thing, and that growth is the sign of youthfulness and indeed, one can be young at 90 years! Earth is a field of progress, and education is something that must be continued all one’s life. It is this that gives interest and meaning to life ⎯ the ability and the aspiration to continue to hone one’s faculties and develop one’s capacities. A high vast and all embracing aim changes the quality of life and if one makes one’s aim the growth of consciousness, then one has chosen an immeasurable path for there can be no end, no limit to the growth of consciousness.

Schools are merely a preparation to make youth capable of thinking, studying, progressing and becoming intelligent, but the process of acquiring knowledge, and synthesizing it in one’s being; increasing one’s capacity for heroism and illumination and harmony; working upon one’s power to express skill, strength, plasticity, and beauty, must be continued all one’s life. For no aspect of knowledge is outside the scope of an education aiming at integrality. Rather than a linear development, one adopts a spherical method that enfolds all the world and nature too and studies its many processes from the physical to the psychical.

All subjects: ethics, aesthetics, the humanities and the sciences are means by which one can touch the over- arching aim which is to arrive at a unity and synthesis of knowledge based upon a deeper poise of the being.

It is such an Integral education built upon a deeper center of gravity, a psychic and spiritual education, which Sri Aurobindo envisioned for the youth of India.