Category:So-called Education
Theme Analysis
This category addresses Śrīla Prabhupāda’s critique of materialistic or so-called education. He highlights that much of modern education, including scientific and technical instruction, fails to cultivate spiritual understanding or self-realization. So-called education may increase intellectual skill or societal prestige, but without Kṛṣṇa consciousness, it produces ignorance, moral decline, and a lack of understanding of one’s eternal identity. True education, by contrast, leads to atma-jnana, devotion, and the practical application of spiritual knowledge in daily life.
- Illusory Nature of So-called Education: Academic and technical education alone cannot reveal the ultimate truths of life or prevent moral degradation.
- Spiritual Knowledge as True Education: Real education is understanding God, the soul, and the principles of dharma, which cannot be gained through mere degrees or worldly learning.
- Consequences of Material Advancement: Advancement in so-called education without spiritual grounding leads to ignorance, foolishness, and impersonalist attitudes.
- Disciplic Connection as Necessity: Understanding spiritual knowledge requires guidance from authorized sources; so-called education cannot substitute for this disciplic connection.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: So-called Education.
Pages in category "So-called Education"
The following 37 pages are in this category, out of 37 total.
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- A man without brain, so-called education, is just like a jewel on the head of a serpent
- After finishing a so-called education, the so-called educated persons move like dogs from door to door with applications for some service, and mostly they are driven away, informed of no vacancy
- Anyone who has come to this material world, he is illusioned. But advancement of so-called material education means the increasing of the same illusory propaganda
- At the present moment there is no education, because education means to understand my identity. The so-called education which is going on, that is called art
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- If he has no connection with Nityananda and if he does not come to the Krsna consciousness, his vidya, or his so-called academic education, and kula, and birth in high family or great nation, will not protect him, because nature's law will act
- If one does not hear Krsna, then he must be grouped in these categories: duskrtina, mudha, naradhama, mayayapahrta-jnana. What is the value of their so-called education if they cannot understand the simple truth, tatha dehantara-praptih - BG 2.13
- If one does not understand what Krsna, he is either duskrtina, means sinful; mudha, rascal; naradhama, lowest of the mankind; and mayayapahrta-jnana - and his so-called education and degrees are useless because real knowledge is taken away from him
- If the so-called advanced in education they speak so irresponsibly, naturally, others will follow. Therefore, at the present moment, the whole generation is covered with ignorance and darkness. No clear knowledge
- If you're actually interested in atma-jnana, self-realization, then you cannot understand by your so-called academic education. No
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- The reason is asuram bhavam asritah: "They have taken to the nonsense philosophy of godlessness." That's it. For this reason their so-called education, university education, degrees, are simply illusion of maya
- The so-called educational system, all over the world, there is no such education. They are kept in darkness and ignorance and still so much money is being spent, especially in the Western countries
- The so-called educational vibrations of the tongues of university professors who do not have spiritual knowledge is like the croaking of frogs
- The whole system of education is geared to sense gratification, and if a learned man thinks it over, he sees that the children of this age are being intentionally sent to the slaughterhouses of so-called education
- Things become revealed by devotion, not by so-called education
- This so-called technical education or smoking education, drinking education and so many rascal education. This is not education. Education means bhagavata education: to understand God. That is wanted
- To stop this repetition of birth and death. This is the problem. This problem, the so-called scientists, philosophers, educationists, politician, they have set aside this question. The real problem is to solve the question of birth and death
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- Unfortunately, after so-called education also, we remain fools and rascals. Because we do not know . . . there is no educational system to understand atma-tattvam. Atma-tattvam. The human life is meant for understanding atma-tattvam
- Unless one is in the disciplic succession, he cannot understand Bhagavad-gita. It is not possible by so-called academic education. BG 1972 purports
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- We are proud of our so-called scientific education that is improving. What you are improving? You cannot live even for hundred years. So this is called maya. Actually we are decreasing, but we are thinking improving
- What do you mean by nature? Just see how foolish they are. They cannot explain what is this nature. Simply say. I'm simply sorry that the so-called institution, education, simply making people all fools and rascals. That is my grief only
- What is the value of their so-called education if they cannot understand the simple truth, tatha dehantara-praptih (BG 2.13)? What is the value of this education?
- What right you have got to kill another animal? Because you have no vision of equality, for want of Krsna consciousness. Therefore so-called education, culture, fraternity, in this material world, all these are bogus, humbug
- When one becomes very much advanced in so-called education, he becomes impersonalist, voidist. So Srimad-Bhagavatam, through Prahlada Maharaja's authority, is condemning
- When the whole population becomes naradhama, naturally all their so-called education is made null and void by the all-powerful energy of physical nature. BG 1972 purports
- Why there is poverty? Because they are not producing food. Everyone wants so-called comfortable life. So-called education. Sitting idle in the table and chair, and talking all gossips, nonsense, and sleeping. They have been trained up in this way, sudra