राष्ट्रीय शिक्षा प्रणाली एवं भारतीय मानस (श्री अरविन्द - एकात्म शिक्षा दर्शन)

TRAINING MENTAL FACULTIES 61 the training of the faculties which observe and compare outward things. But I shall deal with it in a subsequent chapter. The mental faculties should first be exercised on things, afterwards on words and ideas. Our dealings with language are much too perfunctory and the absence of a fine sense for words impoverishes the intellect and limits the fineness and truth of its operations. The mind should be accustomed first to notice the word thoroughly, its form, sound and sense ; then to compare the form with other similar forms in the points of simila- rity and difference, thus forming the foundation of the grammatical sense ; then to distinguish between the fine shades of sense of similar words and the formtaion and rhythm of different sentences; thus the formation of the