The biggest weakness of modern education is not that it fails to keep pace with technology, but that it neglects self-knowledge. Students are trained to build identities around qualifications and careers, making them rigid in a world that demands constant change. Real adaptability, innovation, and lifelong learning come not from acquiring more skills, but from understanding oneself and letting go of fixed identities.
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Acharya Prashant: I'm glad to be here with you all once again. Education for the unknown, most wonderful and relevant topic. I'll try to look at the whole spectrum, starting from education and moving to the unknown.
You see, the first thing that I gather is that we want to say as if the system is somehow broken. The system isn't broken. In fact, the system has been magnificent. It has delivered superbly over well over a century. But we must investigate what it was designed to do, and hence what it has delivered.
It was designed to take in human beings and convert them into functional economic units. And the system has done that brilliantly. I'm talking about the education system. Sometimes we want to say that the system was well intended. The design was right. The execution hasn't been proper. That's not exactly that.
You see, the product, when it comes to, let's say, an IIT, was an engineer. And the engineer was made for a certain kind of factory. What was not realized was the relationship between the engineer, the product of education, that is, and the factory, because that was never in the design of the education system itself. The factory moved on.
