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Some religious leaders have taught that man is made up of a body and a soul, but they have been silent about intellect. Their followers try to feed the body to earth and save the soul from perdition after death—but they neglected the claims of the mind. Bread for the body and virtue for the soul, these are regarded as indispensable requisites of human welfare. Nothing is said about knowledge and education. Thus, Jesus Christ spoke of feeding the hungry, healing the sick and converting the sinners, but he never taught the duty of teaching an ignorant and increasing scientific knowledge. He himself was not a well-educated man and intellectual pursuits were beyond his horizon. Gautama Buddha also laid stress on morality, meditation and asceticism, but he did not attach great importance to history, science, art or literature. St. Ambrose deprecated scientific studies and wrote, ‘To discuss the nature and position of the earth does not help us in our hope for life to come’. St. Basil said very frankly and foolishly, ‘It is not a matter of interest to us whether the earth is a sphere, a cylinder or a disc’. Thomas Carlyle also followed the Christian tradition and declared that he honoured only two kinds of men and no third, i.e., the manual labourer and the religious teacher. He forgot the scientist, the scholar and the artist. The cynics of Greece despised education at last.