A boy is given to a carpenter. He learns very easily. A weaver, he learns very easily. A shopkeeper, grocer, he learns very easily. That is education. Why he should waste time for academic education and create unemployment

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"A boy is given to a carpenter. He learns very easily. A weaver, he learns very easily. A shopkeeper, grocer, he learns very easily. That is education. Why he should waste time for academic education and create unemployment"

Conversations and Morning Walks

1977 Conversations and Morning Walks

The vaiśyas, they have got a son, goes to a shopkeeper, "Please here let my son work with you. He doesn't want any salary." So he gets engagement. Then, by seeing, seeing, he becomes little important. And the proprietor gives him some hand expense. And then, one day, he becomes very expert. He starts his own business. That was the system. Why he should go and waste time for education? A boy is given to a carpenter. He learns very easily. A weaver, he learns very easily. A shopkeeper, grocer, he learns very easily. That is education. Why he should waste time for academic education and create unemployment? So long he's not educated, he has got enough employment. Still they take in the morning, say, half a mound of ḍāl and goes home to home: Dal chahiye, dal sabhi ko jarurat he. (Want Dal? Everybody needs Dal.) So by selling after mound of ḍāl, he makes up these two, three rupees' profit. That's all. Where is unemployment?.

770624 - Conversation - Vrndavana

There are uneducated laborer, just like carpenter. He doesn't require any education. If he knows how to rub on . . . what is called, that? That instrument? He doesn't require to become M.A. Ph.D. All these laborers are working so nicely. So why they should spend . . . waste their time in going to school and college? From the very be . . . as soon as he's ten years old only, let him learn practically how to weave cloth, how to become carpenter, how to become other craftsman. And in due course of time he can earn his . . . How to cultivate land. Why so many big, big universities for inviting everyone? There is no need. Educated means brāhmaṇa, kṣatriya. Brāhmaṇa will give real knowledge, and kṣatriyas will govern. For vaiśyas and śūdras, there is no . . . it is waste of time. Formerly it was done so. The vaiśyas, they have got a son, goes to a shopkeeper, "Please here let my son work with you. He doesn't want any salary." So he gets engagement. Then, by seeing, seeing, he becomes little important. And the proprietor gives him some hand expense. And then, one day, he becomes very expert. He starts his own business. That was the system. Why he should go and waste time for education? A boy is given to a carpenter. He learns very easily. A weaver, he learns very easily. A shopkeeper, grocer, he learns very easily. That is education. Why he should waste time for academic education and create unemployment? So long he's not educated, he has got enough employment. Still they take in the morning, say, half a mound of ḍāl and goes home to home: Dal chahiye, dal sabhi ko jarurat he. (Want Dal? Everybody needs Dal.) So by selling after mound of ḍāl, he makes up these two, three rupees' profit. That's all. Where is unemployment?