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

Oliver: In the Western world the whole range of education covers only primary, secondary, and tertiary education.

Śrīla Prabhupāda: By thoroughly studying Bhagavad-gītā, one begins his spiritual education.

Modern university education practically prepares one to acquire a doggish mentality for accepting the Like the dogs, after finishing their so-called education the so-called educated persons move from door There are so many educated men who are unemployed – because they have been educated as dogs.

For example, you have become a scientist by proper training, proper education. It simply requires proper education to awaken it. However, this education is not given in the universities. That is the defect in modern education. the inclination to be Kṛṣṇa conscious is there, the authorities are unfortunately not giving any education

Yogeśvara dāsa: They’re supposed to be the educated class too – brāhmaṇas.

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.

Śrīla Prabhupāda: We don’t say that this scientific knowledge is useless. Mechanics, electronics – this is also knowledge. But different departments of knowledge differ in their comparative importance. There are many different departments of knowledge, but the central point is ātma-jñāna – self-knowledge , the knowledge of the soul.

Benford: Well, scientific knowledge is a different class of knowledge.

Benford: Why is knowledge of myself better than knowledge of a plant?

By eagerness, you’ll automatically be enriched with knowledge and detachment. Knowledge does not mean “Now we have discovered this atomic bomb.” That is not knowledge. What knowledge is that? But we are giving knowledge to stop death. That is Kṛṣṇa consciousness; that is knowledge. And as soon as you get this knowledge, automatically you become detached from all this nonsensical materialistic

The child may not know, but when he is a grown-up and has been educated and still he does not know, then what is the meaning of his education?

Those who give education in exchange for money – they are not brāhmaṇas. For instance, we are lecturing, educating people. We don’t say, “Give us a salary.” A brāhmaṇa is eager to see that people are educated. “Take free education and be educated; be a human being” – this is a brāhmaṇa’s concern: You see?

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.

iti sa mahātmā su-durlabhaḥ: “When one understands that Vāsudeva, Kṛṣṇa, is everything, one is in knowledge Before that, there is no knowledge. It is simply misunderstanding. So if you do not understand Kṛṣṇa, where is your knowledge? Halfway knowledge is no knowledge. We want complete knowledge, and that complete knowledge is possible by the grace of Kṛṣṇa, through Bhagavad-gītā

“After many, many births, he who is actually in knowledge surrenders unto Me.” The impersonalists are passing themselves off as jñānīs, but they have no knowledge at all. Vedānta means “the ultimate knowledge.” So the subject matter of ultimate knowledge is Kṛṣṇa, God. If one does not know who God is, who Kṛṣṇa is, then where is one’s knowledge? But if a rascal claims, “I am a man of knowledge,” then what can be done?

scientific understanding of the soul, Śrīla Prabhupāda declares, “We don’t say that this scientific knowledge Mechanics, electronics – this is also knowledge … but the central point is ātma-jñāna – self-knowledge , knowledge of the soul.”