"One problem with our current society is that we have an attitude towards educ..." - Dalai Lama XIV

One problem with our current society is that we have an attitude towards education as if it is there to simply make you more clever, make you more ingenious Even though our society does not emphasize this, the most important use of knowledge and education is to help us understand the importance of engaging in more wholesome actions and bringing about discipline within our minds. The proper utilization of our intelligence and knowledge is to effect changes from within to develop a good heart.

— Dalai Lama XIV
Spiritual leader of Tibet since 1940

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Dalai Lama XIV was spiritual leader of tibet since 1940. The 14th Dalai Lama is the incumbent Dalai Lama, the highest spiritual leader and head of Tibetan Buddhism. He served as the resident spiritual and temporal leader of Tibet before 1959 and subsequently led the Tibetan government in exile represented by the Central Tibetan Administration in Dharamsala, India. Read more on Wikipedia →

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