Is education necessary for a child? || Acharya Prashant (2018)

Acharya Prashant

Full Video: The myth of the child’s innocence || Acharya Prashant (2018) Link:   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMBvE_EsjEc&t=0s  Video Information: Shabdyog Session, 19.09.2018, Advait BodhSthal, Greater Noida, India   Context:   What is innocence? How to take care of children? What is meant by 'the myth of the child's innocence?' How to understand child's psychology?  Music Credits: Milind Date ~~~~~

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00:00 Education is needed so that the animalistic tendencies of the child can be either neutralized

00:14 or channelized.

00:18 It is another matter that education usually goes wrong.

00:24 Instead of deconditioning the child, education mostly results in piling up even more conditioning

00:33 on the child's psyche.

00:37 But education nevertheless is very very necessary.

00:41 Education both in the worldly way where you teach the child about science, history, geography,

00:48 mathematics and such things and education of the self, both are greatly important.

00:59 And remember that the animal has neither.

01:05 The animal knows neither physics nor the self.

01:14 Man must know both and the child knows nothing.

01:19 How then are you able to see that the child is uncorrupted?

01:23 The child is uneducated, not uncorrupted.

01:28 The corrupted one emerged from the very womb.

01:35 Now how can that corruption not be there?

01:41 In the very first moment of his life after birth, he was already corrupted.

01:53 Even inside the mother's womb, the child is already corrupted.

01:59 Only corruption takes birth.

02:02 Are you getting it?

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