Modern education teaches science, technology, economics, and the external world with remarkable depth, yet often neglects the one who acquires that knowledge. Without self-knowledge, education serves fear, greed, and ego instead of truth. Lasting solutions to humanity's crises require combining outer knowledge with inner awareness. True education liberates consciousness by examining both the world and the knower, not merely producing skilled professionals.
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Originally published in The Pioneer on 11 July '26
Conversations and insights from my UK tour
On 30 May, I was at the Cambridge Union in conversation with Professor Jaideep Prabhu. In that hall, where Churchill and Hawking have both been heard, the audience before me was made up largely of economics and management students. Their questions were intelligent, serious, and honest. But one thing became clear very quickly. However sophisticated the education, there comes a point where no theory helps and no degree comes to the rescue. At that point, the question is no longer about the world. It is about the questioner. A one-hour session stretched into conversations over nearly two days.
And what I saw at Cambridge, I saw throughout the tour. At Oxford, in the British Parliament, at the London School of Economics, and in public dialogues. The questions differed, the lack was the same. People know a great deal, but they do not know themselves. That is the subject of this article. What do the world’s finest universities teach, and what do they still fail to teach?
