The Right Education

The focus of education should be not to suppress information but to kindle thirst for knowledge. Then you can’t stop the child from learning, he’s going to learn anyway. But instead of kindling that, you’re suppressing it. Beating it down with your idea of what is education, because your idea of education is social status and money. So, children who are joyful become sad because you’re just disorienting them with your compulsions. So, it is you who brought that competition and comparison, because, for most parents, it is not about education, it is about first rank. They’re not interested in learning or education. The whole effort is how to sit on top of the pile. Isn’t it so? Everybody cannot sit on top of the pile, only a few can. Others will naturally end up at the bottom and get suppressed, isn’t it? Whatever the activity, if our focus is just to outdo others, many others will get suffocated under the pile. This is bound to happen; there is no other way. If your attitudes change, the schools will change. You want your child to get first rank. Schools are just trying to fulfil your requirements. In the course of your activity the child is getting ruined; this is a sickness which has to go. True human capabilities will not find expression in comparison and competition. When you are trying to race with somebody, you will think only one step ahead of them. You’re not thinking of what is your ultimate potential. We’re just ruining a whole generation of people with the kind of schooling we’re doing


Source: Economic Times, 14/09/2018