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Prabhupāda: This is not education. Vidyā dadhāti namratā. Educated means he is humble, gentle, sober, full of knowledge, practical application in life of knowledge That is education. What is this education?
Room Conversation
The knowledge of eating, sleeping, mating, defending, that is animal knowledge. Everyone knows it. How to eat, nobody requires any education. How to sleep, nobody requires any education. How to have sex life, nobody requires any education. How to defend, nobody requires education. They are not subject matter of education. Everyone knows it, how to do it. The modern education means they are on this subject matter. Just like that rascal, Freud?
Bhagavad-gītā 9.2
Vidyā means education, and rāja means king. So what is the king of education? There are different grades of education. Now, what is the summum bonum, highest, topmost education? This topmost education is Kṛṣṇa consciousness, topmost education. Rāja-vidyā. Real knowledge is: "So what I am." This is real knowledge. Unless we come to this point, that "What I am," that is not knowledge.
Room Conversation with Reporter
Prabhupāda: Technical knowledge is not education.
Morning Walk
Patel: People think so far this country is concerned that education means giving the knowledge of how I think it is the knowledge and not the education. Education is something different, that trains up your mind how to think, how to, I mean, separate grain
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 6.1.8
And still, they are very much proud of advancement of education. Actually, there is no education. Without this knowledge, spiritual knowledge, this education for earning bread—eating, sleeping, mating—that can be done without education. They are not technologist, or they have no education in the universities, degrees; they're also eating
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam Lecture, Bīrabhadra Initiation
developing, going through many species of life, many intelligent human forms of life by cultivating knowledge , education, when one comes to the limit of education and knowledge, he understands what is God. And to understand that knowledge, vidyā bhāgavatāvadhiḥ.
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam Lecture, Bīrabhadra Initiation
The most learned scholars, they have agreed that if you want to achieve knowledge, then you should study Limit of knowledge, limit of education, highest limit of education can be found in the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
Interview with Professors O'Connell, Motilal and Shivaram
Jayādvaita: "This knowledge is the king of education..."
Room Conversation with Dr. Inger, UNESCO Worker
Education is merely book knowledge...
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 6.1.6–8
The most defective education, because without this knowledge, what happens after death, without this knowledge, one who is dying without this knowledge, he's animal. He has no such knowledge.
Room Conversation and Interview with Richard from Coronet Magazine
Prabhupāda: If you want to overcome all obstacles of life, this is the only education. That's all. Or if you have different aims of life, there are different departments of knowledge. But if you want this knowledge, then this is the education.