Sri Aurobindo

Letters on Himself and the Ashram

The Complete Works of Sri Aurobindo. Volume 35

His Life and Attempts to Write about It
On His Published Prose Writings

A System of National Education

I readily give the permission you request to embody my System of National Education as a chapter in the book projected by your {{0}}Institute.[[This letter was drafted by one of Sri Aurobindo’s secretaries and extensively revised by Sri Aurobindo. He wrote the last sentence in his own hand. — Ed.]] I have no time to go again through it, but I am asking my publishers, the Arya Publishing House of Calcutta, to send you a copy of the corrected and authorised edition. The Madras edition is unauthorised and full of gross errors. The book is only a series of preliminary essays never worked out or completed, but I shall be glad if, even as it is, you think it can be of some use.