Max Muller on Vedanta's Boldness

"It is surely astounding that such a system as the Vedanta should have been slowly elaborated by the indefatigable and intrepid thinkers of India thousands of years ago, a system that even now makes us  feel giddy, as in mounting the last steps of the swaying spire of an ancient Gothic cathedral. None of our philosophers, not excepting Heraclitus, Plato, Kant, or Hegel, has ventured to erect such a spire, never frightened by storms or lightening. Stone follows on stone in regular succession after once the first step has been  made, after once it has been clearly seen that in the beginning there can have been but One, as there will be but One in the end, whether we call it Atman or Brahman."    ---- Max Muller (Six Systems of Indian Philosophy, p.182)

The Importance of Play-Time

The lack of free-play time in children's lives is negatively affecting their holistic growth and in-turn also is being detrimental for our society as a whole. This implication might not been visibly outright and its quite probable that someone might say that they don't see the effect of the 'play deficit'. Moreover, it is not uncommon to find lobbyists supporting the growing play deficit. I would suggest everyone to please have a look at this interesting article,  'The Play Deficit'  (courtesy: http://aeon.co)

Its so true, especially in India since the last decade. The importance of unsupervised play for children are being ignored and children are undemocratically and continuosuly  involved in adult-directed activities.  

Yes, it is also because of the rat race we have put ourselves in. And the unfortunate fact is that, it is very confounding to realise the true state of this affair, since we ourselves are part of this race, the elusive carrot dangling infront of us all through our life and we have seldom (if not never) exercised 'independent thinking' without any apriori bias (which is a result of most modern educational paradigms).