• 4 months ago
Full video: Teaching Kids Respect for Others' Choices || Acharya Prashant, with IIT-Madras (2023)
Transcript
00:00Don't just train or condition the kid.
00:03That's not what can be called as education.
00:05Education is about wetting the child's curiosity, sharpening his appetite to ask questions.
00:13Let him ask questions.
00:14If he sees a little girl his own age, he must ask, why is she wearing the way I don't?
00:19Why does she look different?
00:21Why is her hair done differently?
00:23These are the questions that the kid must ask.
00:25And if the kid is not asking these questions, there's a problem.
00:28So make the kid ask these questions, otherwise he'll just become a trained kind of programmed
00:33kind of machine, which is no good.