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Prabhupāda: Technical knowledge is not education.

Prabhupāda: This is not education. Vidyā dadhāti namratā. Educated means he is humble, gentle, sober, full of knowledge, practical application in life of knowledge That is education. What is this education?

Jayādvaita: "This knowledge is the king of education..."

Education is merely book knowledge...

Prabhupāda: Etaj jñānam: these are knowledge. This is education. Then?

The knowledge of eating, sleeping, mating, defending, that is animal knowledge. Everyone knows it. How to eat, nobody requires any education. How to sleep, nobody requires any education. How to have sex life, nobody requires any education. How to defend, nobody requires education. They are not subject matter of education. Everyone knows it, how to do it. The modern education means they are on this subject matter. Just like that rascal, Freud?

So this is going on, but unfortunately modern universities, educational system, they do not know anything And still, they are very much proud of advancement of education. Actually, there is no education. Without this knowledge, spiritual knowledge, this education for earning bread—eating, sleeping, mating—that can be done without education. The animals, they are not educated.

Vidyā means education, and rāja means king. So what is the king of education? There are different grades of education. Now, what is the summum bonum, highest, topmost education? This topmost education is Kṛṣṇa consciousness, topmost education. Rāja-vidyā. Real knowledge is: "So what I am." This is real knowledge. Unless we come to this point, that "What I am," that is not knowledge.

Patel: People think so far this country is concerned that education means giving the knowledge of how I think it is the knowledge and not the education. Education is something different, that trains up your mind how to think, how to, I mean, separate grain

Prabhupāda: If you want to overcome all obstacles of life, this is the only education. That's all. Or if you have different aims of life, there are different departments of knowledge. But if you want this knowledge, then this is the education.

What is your education? What is your process of knowledge?

Reporter: Do you think this knowledge should be a part of everyone’s education?

The most learned scholars, they have agreed that if you want to achieve knowledge, then you should study Limit of knowledge, limit of education, highest limit of education can be found in the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam

developing, going through many species of life, many intelligent human forms of life by cultivating knowledge , education, when one comes to the limit of education and knowledge, he understands what is God. And to understand that knowledge, vidyā bhāgavatāvadhiḥ.

You say a person who has got education, still, he acts ridiculously. That means you have no knowledge what is education.

There is no educational system in the university what happens after death. There is no such educational system. The most defective education, because without this knowledge, what happens after death, without this knowledge, one who is dying without this knowledge, he's animal. He has no such knowledge.

Prabhupāda: Educational circles. Yes. In the education circles they are made fools. Education means he's a more fool, that's all. That is education. Mūḍha. Māyayāpahṛta-jñāna. These fools and rascals, their actual knowledge is taken away, and they are coming out as educated.

Ordinary knowledge obtained by a university education pertains only to matter, and it is not accepted here as knowledge. Knowledge means knowing the distinction between spirit and matter. In modern education there is no knowledge about spirit; they are simply taking care of the material elements Therefore academic knowledge is not complete.

“What is the highest standard of education?” is knowledge of the science of Kṛṣṇa. The standard of material education is sense gratification, but the highest standard of spiritual education is knowledge of the science of Kṛṣṇa. which places one in full Kṛṣṇa consciousness is the highest knowledge.”

You have said that you have come to this country for getting higher scientific education. think that if Indians would have come to this country to give the people of this country higher education in spiritual knowledge, that would be the proper function of their section of the human society. India to teach them that part of knowledge; and Indians may come to teach them spiritual knowledge. To maintain proper balance of the society, both sides of education are needed.