Formal education is important to the extent the body is important. The less the body-identification, the less is the importance of object-centric education. A person's attachment to material possessions, driven by societal values, leads to poverty and duality. Poverty, unlike the natural world, is man-made and rooted in the desire to accumulate. While education enables material progress, it doesn’t address deeper issues of self-identity and existence.
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Questioner: Sir, I was reading one of your blogs on education in which you have said that our normal education is important up to some extent. My question is, ‘Up to what extent? Who decides that extent?’
Acharya Prashant: Formal education is important to the extent the body is important. The less the body-identification,the less is the importance of object-centric education.
Questioner: But formal education also plays a role to make one less bodily identified.
Acharya Prashant: The ‘one’ that is already body-identified. Right? Which education helped him make body-identified?
