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Title XVII Hindu Education

  1. Parents and those who take their place are bound by the responsibility and possess the right of educating their offspring. Hindu parents also have the responsibility and right of choosing those means and institutions through which they can provide more suitably for the Hindu education of their children, according to local circumstances.
  • a. Parents also have the right to that assistance, to be furnished by civil society, which they need to secure the Hindu education of their children.
  1. The responsibility and right of educating belongs in a special way to the temple, to which has been divinely entrusted the mission of assisting citizens so that they are able to reach the fullness of the Hindu life.
  2. Since true education must strive for complete formation of the citizen that looks to his or her final end as well as to the common good of societies, children and youth are to be nurtured in such a way that they are able to develop their physical, spiritual, and intellectual capabilities harmoniously, acquire a more perfect sense of responsibility and right use of freedom, and are formed to participate actively in social life.