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Śrīla Prabhupāda: Is this educational program for all men, or are there different types of education

He thought that everyone should be educated from an early age, and that part of that education should

What was Plato’s idea of education?

Experimental knowledge is always imperfect, because one experiments with imperfect senses. Therefore, scientific knowledge must be imperfect. Our source of knowledge is different. We do not depend on experimental knowledge.

Śyāmasundara: Plato said this type of education reveals what category a person belongs to.

That is the boundary of your knowledge. But that is not knowledge; there are many other evidences.

In other words, Plato thought everyone should be educated to work in whatever way is best suited to awaken

But my source of knowledge is different. You are an experimenter with imperfect senses. I have taken knowledge from the perfect person, who has seen everything, who knows everything. Therefore, my knowledge is perfect.

But those so-called scientists and philosophers who do not follow this system of descending knowledge , who do not accept knowledge thus received from higher authorities – they can’t have any perfect knowledge

As soon as one says “chance,” it means his knowledge is imperfect. So the conclusion is that he is without perfect knowledge and therefore unfit for giving any knowledge

Śrīla Prabhupāda: This is not only pessimism, but evidence of his poor fund of knowledge. He did not have perfect knowledge, nor was he trained by a perfect man.

So his knowledge is imperfect. This is the relative world, and here everyone speaks with relative knowledge. Therefore we should accept knowledge from a person who is not within this relativity.

That is not full knowledge.

Devotee: And your knowledge says that millions of years ago there were higher forms of life on this planet

The whole of Vedic education aims at getting off this false platform and coming to the real platform of spiritual knowledge, called brahma-jñāna. When one comes to the knowledge that he is spirit soul, he immediately becomes happy. Without this knowledge, all his theories are based on a misunderstanding.

Say, for example, that I receive knowledge from my mother: “Here is your father.” Therefore, no matter how much you search, your knowledge will always remain imperfect.

But we take knowledge from the one who has made the Atlantic Ocean. So our knowledge is perfect.

Brahmā was first educated by God, and His knowledge has been passed down to us in the Vedic literature

If you are not perfect in your knowledge, then why should I accept your theory? That is my point.

As soon as he says “chance,” it means that he has no knowledge. We don’t say “chance.” Therefore he has no knowledge.