Category:Result of Education
Theme Analysis
This category examines Śrīla Prabhupāda’s perspective on the outcomes of education, contrasting materialistic and spiritual instruction. Materialistic education, while developing intellectual skills, often leads to moral decline, misuse of intelligence, and detachment from spiritual truths. In contrast, spiritual education results in moral discernment, self-realization, and firm attachment to Kṛṣṇa. The ultimate aim of education is not mere academic knowledge but the cultivation of integrity, ethical behavior, and spiritual consciousness.
- Material Education and Misuse of Intelligence: Education without spiritual foundation can lead to skepticism, dishonesty, and detachment from moral values.
- Moral Discernment as Education Outcome: True education enables one to distinguish between right and wrong and to develop ethical judgment.
- Spiritual Result of Education: Real education fixes the mind on Kṛṣṇa’s lotus feet, fostering devotion, self-realization, and the understanding of one’s eternal nature.
- Consequences of Modern Education: Modern education, without spiritual grounding, may produce intelligence but also suspicion, irresponsibility, and a disregard for moral duties.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: True and False Results of Education.
Pages in category "Result of Education"
The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total.
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- After writing this and thus accepting the real purport of the Gita, how can Dr. Radhakrishnan later state that Lord Krsna's body and soul are different? Such an idea must be a result of his materialistic education
- Appropriate quotes in Caitanya-bhagavata: "The perfect result of an education is the fixing of one's mind on the lotus feet of Krsna." - CB Adi-khanda 13.178
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- If they cannot distinguish between right and wrong, then what is the result of this education? Education means one must be able to distinguish between the right and wrong
- 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
- In the modern system of education the teacher's academic qualification is taken into consideration without evaluation of his moral life. Therefore, the result of education is misuse of high intelligence in so many ways
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- The education is that a university student, if he is informed, that "If you live irresponsibly, then you may become dog next life," so they say, "What is the wrong if I become a dog?" (laughter) This is the result of education. He doesn't care
- The science is manufacturing atom bomb, and philanthropy is becoming hippies. This is the result of education