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Prabhupāda explained the Bhagavad-gītā verse, commenting that real knowledge was to know the difference To manufacture a nice car or machine was not education.

(a)To systematically propagate spiritual knowledge to society at large and to educate all peoples in

This supposedly educated man was so ignorant as to mistake Kṛṣṇa consciousness for merely another sectarian intelligent men to try to understand Kṛṣṇa consciousness and understand that the Gītā was actual knowledge , transcendental knowledge, beyond the inferior knowledge of the senses and the mind.

Śrīla Prabhupāda: “That means the rascals do not know that godlessness and godless education will be Without God consciousness, there cannot be any education, there cannot be any good qualities. All the education and its propaganda is to make the world godless, although the most scientific knowledge

The girl reflected a moment, “Well … I guess that’s the age for education.”

“Is that education?” said Prabhupāda. “Better not to be educated. Those who are not educated, they can purchase five rupees’ worth of potatoes and sit down anywhere.

But that does not mean he is educated. Education is a different thing. But at the present moment the education is technical. Formerly this technical education was entrusted to the demons. Education, however, means brahma-vidyā, to understand what is the living force within the body – What

So Prabhupāda was explaining that this is their education, that after getting their education they have

I want to train up 40 educated youths, to learn this science of transcendental knowledge and just prepare

“It requires education. The education is there, the books are there, the teachers are there. Unfortunately, you are not interested to take this spiritual education.

“But it is for the advancement of knowledge,” said the biologist. “So it is worthwhile. It is for the advancement of knowledge.”

“Śrīla Prabhupāda,” Mahābuddhi said, “in my service I have to always meet many educated people, much more educated than I am.

“Ordinary education is sufficient,” Prabhupāda was saying “ – ABCD. This is nonsense – big, big education and then later on become a prostitute. To make them prostitute doesn’t require education. So in Dallas Gurukula there is no problem. Educate the girls how to become faithful, chaste wife, how to cook nicely.

“The first knowledge, then, that must be understood by human society is that we are not these bodies. It is very common knowledge. From this point, our spiritual knowledge can advance. If we do not know what spirit is, then what is the question of advancing in spiritual knowledge?”

I joined Gandhi’s movement in 1920 and gave up my education.

Bhagavad-gītā is the true “jewel of education.” Do not quarrel.’ ” The agnostic who had spoken of the “jewel of education” had been blinded by the jewel

They are educating.

Prabhupāda: “Yes, that is perfect knowledge. Not like the scientists. They change. This is not perfect knowledge. Perfect knowledge is that which you say, that is correct forever. If someone says, ‘Man dies,’ it is perfect knowledge. It is correct forever.”