Category:Modern Education
Theme Analysis
Śrīla Prabhupāda consistently explains that modern education, though advanced in technology and material organization, suffers from a fatal deficiency: it neglects knowledge of the soul and the ultimate goal of life. By centering education on bodily identification, economic development, and technical skill, modern systems fail to cultivate real intelligence and instead degrade human consciousness.
- Ignorance of the Soul: Modern education does not teach the difference between the body and the jīva, leaving students unaware of their real identity.
- Loss of the Aim of Life: Without understanding life after death and the purpose of human existence, education becomes directionless and misleading.
- Refined Animal Consciousness: Training focused only on sense gratification and survival produces sophisticated animal behavior rather than enlightened human conduct.
- False Prestige of Knowledge: Academic titles and research replace wisdom, even though eternal knowledge cannot be discovered through speculation.
- Spiritual Emptiness of Civilization: The neglect of God, moral restraint, and self-realization results in social distrust, confusion, and moral collapse.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Modern Education and the Loss of Spiritual Intelligence.
Pages in category "Modern Education"
The following 49 pages are in this category, out of 49 total.
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- I've been asking in all these universities, high schools, and all those, all those audiences, What is the purpose of this so-called modern education? What is the purpose
- If you are passing on in the street, the gentleman's house there is a signboard, "Beware of the dogs. Don't come in," because he cannot believe anyone. So nobody is believable. So this is the result of modern education
- If you are spending so much time with individuals they must first admit that they do not know who they are and they do not know who is God. These two things are completely lacking in modern educational systems
- In modern education there is no knowledge about the spirit; they are simply taking care of the material elements and bodily needs. Therefore academic knowledge is not complete. BG 1972 purports
- In the modern education system, the purpose is to elevate the general people. But they do not know how to elevate. Therefore there is so much trouble
- In the modern educational system, university, there is no such information, we see. It is very lamentable, but these knowledges are there in the Vedic literature. The summary of all Vedic literature is Srimad-Bhagavad-gita and the Srimad-Bhagavatam
- Indeed, it seems that the more "educated" one becomes, the less he believes in God, in God's law, in the next life and in sinful and pious activities. Thus modern education is simply preparing men to become animals
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- Modern education has artificially devised a puffed up concept of womanly life, and therefore marriage is practically now an imagination in human society. Nor is the moral condition of woman very good now. BG 1972 purports
- Modern education is teaching lowest of the mankind. And if some of the students are taught to become highest of the mankind, their guardians become disturbed: "Oh, my son is going to be highest of the mankind? Swamiji, you are playing dangerous things"
- Modern education means simply a craftsmanship. If you can prepare a nice motorcar, oh, that is advancement of the . . . And what is this? This is craftsmanship. It is the blacksmith's work. It is not knowledge
- Modern education means to create dogs. The dog goes door to door and moves the tail: "Please give me if you have anything." So this educated person with application goes, and they say, "No vacancy. Get out." Therefore they are dogs
- Modern education there is no real knowledge. Real knowledge begins in the Bhagavad-gita
- Modern education, they do not know even what is soul, what is this body, how the transmigration of the soul taking place. All blunt. There is no educational institution all over the world to understand this science
- Modern so-called education is simply a waste of time producing hippies
- Modern so-called education is simply a waste of time producing hippies. Shameless
- Modern university education practically prepares one to acquire a doggish mentality with which to accept the service of a greater master
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- People are not given that chance, the modern education, modern civilization. They've no knowledge. They do not know that there is life after death, although it is a simple fact
- People go to the restaurant, to the cinema and other places, talking unnecessarily in clubs, societies, waste their time. This is going on. This is modern education. This is modern civilization
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- That is the defect of modern educational system. And actually, everyone is seeking for spiritual emancipation. Therefore in your country, in spite of so many big, big universities, you are producing hippies, hopeless population
- The atheistic, demoniac education imparted to the young in modern universities is simply producing a bunch of demons with titles
- The brahmanas are traditionally intelligent men, and thus they will be able to pick up modern education to the topmost rank, but as far as moral and religious principles are concerned, they shall be the most fallen
- The modern education is to teach people to become flies, only stool. Not here, Krsna consciousness. But you make it a honeycomb. Those who are after, seeking after honey, they will find, "Here is something." You see?
- The modern education, they are simply giving lessons on some art, generally known as technology. So by that advancement of knowledge we can construct high skyscraper building, nice motorcar, nice airplane, nice machine. That is art
- The modern educational institutions are different grades of slaughter houses. If you can open an ideal institution for the future children of our associates, it will be a great service
- The modern educational system without any knowledge of Bhagavan, I may tell you frankly, not only in India, everywhere, they are practically slaughterhouse
- There are two kind of men, dhira and adhira. The modern education is producing only the adhira class who are neither sober or educated. Therefore the majority of the population cannot understand how the soul is transmigrating from one body to another
- There is a next life, but foolish people are ignorant. This life is preparation for the next life. That they do not know. The modern education and its universities are completely in darkness about this simple knowledge
- They do not know. They simply speculate. That is the defect of modern educational system. Everyone is seeking for spiritual emancipation. Therefore in your country, in spite of so many big, big universities, you are producing hippies, hopeless population
- This human form of life, should be used for sreyas. We should not be attracted by the preyas. But modern education is so nasty that they encourage preyas
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- Unfortunately modern universities, educational system, they do not know anything about this. And still, they are very much proud of advancement of education. Actually, there is no education
- Unfortunately, at the present moment, people do not know what is the distinction between cats and dogs and a human being. That is another defect of the modern education
- Unfortunately, human beings, although they have the bodies of men, are becoming less than animals in their behavior. This is the fault of modern education
- Unfortunately, in the modern education there is no information of the spiritual world, the spiritual identity, God, our relationship with God - nothing
- Unfortunately, modern education is giving stress on the outward, external body or to the dress and not to... They do not understand who is the person who is dressed or who has got this body
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- We have to transmigrate from this body to another body. This is the fact. But the modern education, they do not know it, neither they believe, even the practical example is there. And who is giving the example? The most authoritative PG, Krsna
- We know that modern education in schools and colleges is not very much helpful in advancement of Krishna Consciousness, but still we have to take advantage of such institutions in absence of any other good organization